Team Wha Go On a Litter Hunt

 

Room Tekau ma Whitu went on a litter hunt.  We found litter all around our school.  It made us feel sad because people are chucking it in places where we can't reach it and it can hurt the sea animals.  

We put the litter into groups: classroom, construction, plasters and food.

The two biggest piles were classroom and food wrappers.  The classroom litter was mostly paper so that will break down.  The food wrappers were made of plastic.  That's bad because it won't break down.

We wondering what we can do to reduce this waste:

- naked lunches (nine children have these today)

- ask EziLunch to not use plastic forks

- can we get biodegradable plasters??

Room Tekau ma Iwa Results:

This is the litter we found

We put our finds into three piles: classroom, food packaging and miscellaneous.

Food packaging was by far the biggest pile! 

Room Tekau ma Waru saw all the food waste rubbish.  We decided that lots was coming from lunchboxes.  We looked in our lunchboxes to see how much waste was there ... we found four children had a litterfree lunch.  Well done to them! Unfortunately we found when we counted all the single use plastic wraps in the rest of the lunches there were... FORTY THREE! 

What could we do to change this?

- we could pack litterfree lunches

- ask who packs our lunches to not use plastic

- at home take off the plastic wraps and put in soft plastic recycling

- use bees wax wraps instead of gladwrap

We're going to measure again next week to see if we can change our habits ...