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“Our trip with WildED gave us a reason to work hard at the sometimes inconvenient and tedious tasks like recycling and composting. These students are committed at heart to change the world. Thank you.”
Grade 4/5 Classroom Teachers from Queen Alexandra Elementary School
This slideshow documents the creation of an Action Plan that the
grade 4/5 classes of Queen Alexandra Elementary came up with
to answer the following question:
“How can we reduce the amount of garbage that our school puts into the landfill?”
Seeing the landfill up close. Very sad.
Gathering committee info for our Community Bulletin Board
Labelling compost buckets for every classroom and locations throughout the school
Creating a ‘Reusables Depository’ for the school
Charting garbage and recycling practices throughout the school
Recycle!
Researching different bins and buckets to help us collect and sort items for recycling
Preparing a presentation to educate our school community about energy conservation
Making labels and posters to remind our community to turn off the lights!
Writing a proposal to sell stainless steel water bottles in order to decrease plastic into our school
Calling experts to gather information. Scary!
Talking to the experts about healthy compost
One of our entries in the Urban Impact Recycling poster contest
Making 'Wonder Boxes' for Garbage Free Day
Wonder Box compartments will hold dry glue stickes, foil wrappers, cellophane and other items
not normally put into our Blue Boxes
Wonder Box
Sorting area
Collecting wet paper towels to be added to our garden compost
One day's worth of paper towels! Rescued from the landfill and on the way to the garden compost!
Plastic bags and wrapping to be recycled!
A beautiful sight...no garbage!
Some of the items diverted from the landfill in one day! The end result was a small handful of actual
garbage!