room 4 lunch box audit
DESCRIPTION
Room 4 have been studying "Reduce, Reuse, recycle' and as part of this we have been carrying out lunch box audits - investigating how much waste we bring to school in our lunch boxes. We did one on the the 10th of June and a second one on the 17th of June, and we had reduced our waste by half!!!! Check out our power point and see what we did.TRANSCRIPT
Room 4 students counted up and graphed the results of the waste created in our lunch boxes.
We did this twice to see if we could make a difference and REDUCE the amount of waste that we create.
Here’s what we found.........• June 10th June 17th
Gladwrap 18 11 Plastic packets 41 26 Yoghurts 8 5 Cardboard 2 3 Paper 1 0 Tinfoil 11 0 (11 all reused) Plastic bags 3 9 (re-usable) Containers 1 13 (re-usable)
TOTAL WASTE 85 45
Look how much of our waste is gladwrap and plastic packaging!!!
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How we can make a difference
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Ways that we reduced our waste
If we have 45 pieces of rubbish in our class per day we worked out: 45 x 5 = 225 pieces of waste per week225 x 10 weeks = 2250 pieces of waste per term2250 x 4 terms = 9000 pieces of waste per year for Room 4 only!
That is when we only have two pieces of waste each in our lunchboxes per day.
By reducing our waste from four to two pieces per day, our total waste is reduced from 17,000 per year to 9000 per year, just for Room 4.
Imagine how much the whole school could reduce if we all tried to have less waste in our lunchboxes!
Ways that we can REDUCE the waste in our lunch boxes:Re-use tinfoil and gladwrapUse re-usable plastic containersUse re-usable plastic bagsBuy less packaging e.g large bag of chips and
put small amounts into containers or re-usable bags
Have more fruitUse less gladwrap – not everything needs
wrappedCompost our food scraps
Ways we can reduce waste in our lunch boxes
Containers
RE USABLE BAGS
REUSABLEWRAPPERS
Lunch boxes with NO WASTE!
There is NO WASTE here!!
Or here!!!!!
Room 4 are trying to look after the environment.
Are you?