Year Four School Litter Audit

How do you think Sunnyhills School is doing when it comes to litter?

James - 8.3/10 -  because whenever I walk around the school I normally see some litter around.  There’s always that tiny bit of littering but not that much.

Joeric - when I was in year 3 and four I always saw plastic bags in drains, but now I don't.

Anvay - 9.9/10  - I only see very small pieces of paper on the field and deck.

Harry - 8.5/10 I still see not that much rubbish but I still see some.

Lucas - 7/10 - OK but some around.

Georgia - I saw a Gatorade bottle on the ground that still had energy drink inside.  I think when the playground has been blocked off people have put it there and the wind have put rubbish down there.

What types of litter do you predict we’ll find?

Jayden - I think we will find muesli bars and candy and bits of plastic because some people are cheeky and break the school rules.

James - around the deck where we eat lunch is the most dirty part of the school.

Stefanie - there’s ice block wrappers and candy wrappers outside room 17.  I don’t know how it got there.  Maybe the builders.

ACTION RESULTS

We sorted the litter into 3 groups - food related, paper and miscellaneous.

The biggest group by far was food related.  

Mrs Daniel - paper is biodegradable.

We found balloons from Kelly Club - we could ask them to stop using them as they can’t be recycled - Joeric

The biggest amount we found was food and drink wrappers - we could do naked lunch - Joeric 

Use resusable lunch containers - James

Stefanie - don’t use glad wrap - there was lots - it’s very light and can float around.  James - it’s very convenient.  Joeric - it looks like jellyfish.

Mrs Daniel - lots of miscellaneous litter was from the building site. I wonder how we could make renovating and building more sustainable... biodegradable hazard tape?

How might we stop so many food wrappers around school?

Marco - make food wrappers heavy so they don’t fly away

Annie - take the food wrapper off at home

Abigail - put food wrapper straight in your bag

Lachie - eat inside

HImanshu - if you see rubbish pick it up

Mailia - put foil on your food

Jayan - Close your lunchbox when you unwrap something

Hayley - not bring any plastic wrapper to school

Hamish - don’t take any food with wrappers on it

REFLECTION - Naked Lunches would stop most of the litter around the school.  

NEXT STEPS - How could we get more Sunnyhills families doing naked lunches?

Hayley - yell in their face that plastic is bad

Jayan - make an advertisement - YouTube

Abigail - tell people about using plastic containers instead of wrappers

Chloe - make a poster

Hamish - send an email to the parents

Marco - have stickers that tell people not to use plastic and put them on windows and doors

Ashley - do a plastic treasure hunt and the people who collect the most get a prize

Anastasia - Hold a competition and who ever has a rubbish free lunch box wins something

Sam - Encourage people to bring more fruits or take off the wrappers at home

Lachie - Everyday a person from each class picks up rubbish

Aston - do a nude food challenge - no wrappers allowed

Zoe - give people with nude food house points

Theo - when you get a lunch order put the wrappers in your bag to take home

Which suggestion do you think is best? Perhaps the Sunnyhills Eco Leader could implement a new initiative in 2021