Recycling station

This term our concept focus has been sustainability. We have chosen to focus on environmental sustainability, in particular to ensure that:

'We're tidy kiwis and we promise to put litter in its place!'

We learnt about where our rubbish (which we throw in the general rubbish bin) ends up.

Once the rubbish truck picks up our rubbish they take it to the landfill. Here rubbish can take 1000's of years to decompose (break down). 

Illustration by Jason

So we decided we needed to do something to make sure we send as little rubbish to the landfill as possible. We created a rubbish station in our class to sort our rubbish into the correct bins. 

Our 5 bins are: 

• Organic (goes to our school worm farm) 
• Plastic (Some goes to Countdown for soft plastic recycling) 
• Aluminum 
• Paper & cardboard (goes to the recycling center) 
• General rubbish (goes to the landfill) 

As you can see the General rubbish bin now has less rubbish, and our rubbish is being redirected to be reused and recycled.

We hope more people realise how important our environment is, and try to do their bit to reduce, reuse and recycle.