Rubbish Relays!

We have been thinking about all the rubbish that has to go in the red bins. 

We played a game where we made a 'rubbish rainbow'.

We were in teams and one person had to run and grab an (old, broken) pen and put it into our red hoop.

Then the next person in our team went and grabbed a different colour pen - we arranged them to make a colourful rainbow.  There were a lot of pens! We talked about how we could reduce the amount of pens that are going in the red landfill bin. 

Afterwards we did the same relay activity but used soft plastic instead. We realised there was still quite a bit of wrappers around our school. 

The following week, we had a visitor called Penelope from Beautification Trust.   She talked to us about what should go into each bin and WHY.  

We did a really fun relay activity where we had to grab some rubbish from a bag and then run to the front and put it into the correct coloured bin; 

red for landfill

yellow for recycling

green for composting

What did we learn? 

* That tetra pak is made from plastic, metal and cardboard (and has to go into landfill or special recycling) (Mikayla)

* The paper straws are just as bad as plastic straws and can't be recycled as they are lined with plastic.  (Mahi) 

That wooden cutlery can be recycled  (Angie)