Waste Wise

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What is Waste Wise?

• Waste Wise is a programme that is about being smart about our waste.

• The Earth only has so many resources and we have to think carefully about how to use them so they don’t run out

What are Resources?

• Resources are the stuff that things are made out of.

• Water is a resource- we use it to grow food• Oil is a resource- we use it for cars and to

make plastic• Trees are a resource- we use them to make

paper

What Waste do we make?

• At the beginning of this term Ron from Waste Wise came in and did a waste audit with some Wesley students.

• We got all the rubbish that our school makes in one day and weighed it

Our Groups

The Messy Part

• We all had to wear gloves and go through all the rubbish- YUCK!

The Interesting Part

• When we were finished sorting the rubbish this was what was left over.

• We found that most of our rubbish could actually be recycled instead of thrown away

What We Decided to Do

• We decided to have paper bins in every class instead of sending paper to the landfill

• We have green buckets in every classroom for our food scraps to go into.

• This gets fed to the worms in our worm farm• The worms make worm tea which helps us

grow vegetables!

What You Can Do

• Put your food scraps in the right bin

• Reuse paper if it’s good on one side

• Don’t buy food with lots of packaging because it will end up in the rubbish bin and in the landfill.