Monday 30 April 2012

Milk Bag Club

Our school has another green initiative coming!! We are asking everybody to bring in milk bags for our new Milk Bag Club. Two students who were interested in making a difference and being green started to collect milk bags to make into mats for people in third world countries. We will be having meetings weekly to twice a week starting after Education Week. We are encouraging students to bring in the big, coloured bags that hold all the small milk bags. We’ll make a difference while being green. So remember to bring in your milk bags to make a difference!!!!


We are taking this:




And turning it into this:



Wednesday 18 April 2012

Update on our Book Exchange

Our Book Exchange Corner


Well our book exchange is up and running in celebration of Earth Week. We have had some people come by and donate some books so we are very excited to get some books into the hands of St. Rita students and to build our library.


We think this is a great idea to help the environment and we are looking for ideas for things to do next.


Here is what it looks like right now!



Tuesday 17 April 2012

Earth Week Initiative: Eco-Squad Book Exchange


St. Rita Student Book Exchange

As part of Earth Week the St. Rita Eco-Squad is initiating a book exchange. 

Ever look around your room and see books that you have already read or ones that you do not pick up any more?

Why not bring in some of your books to St. Rita and put them in the book exchange. You can even pick a new one out for yourself to read!

How it works: students are asked to bring in books they are finished reading and no longer want. They are then asked to put the books on the shelf outside the library and take another book to read. When done with that book they can exchange it for another. This will continue all year. We hope to raise awareness of reusing and recycling by sharing books throughout the school. 

Please bring in gently used books or no longer needed books during the week of April 16th.


Ban the Bottle Ban the Box Update

Water Bottle Update


Our Eco-Squad has been hard at work these days.

BAN THE BOTTLE AND BAN THE BOX  has been very successful. We started out with buying 150 stainless steel water bottles and we wanted to get them into the classrooms. By doing this we were hoping that students would stop bringing in disposable drink containers.

We were a little worried that we would not sell all of the water bottles but we did. There were some disappointed students so we placed another order of 120 water bottles.

Know what ........ it is working. We competed a waste audit before we sold the water bottles and then did another one after the water bottles were in circulation. We went from 4 bags of recycling a day to 2. We could hardly believe it!

To date we have sold 177 water bottles with more being sold each day. We are very excited that we have done something and that we can see the results right away.