On the 11 August, WasteNet was invited to deliver a "Thinking Beyond the Bin" session to the children of Room 6 at Waverley Park School.
The children had previously been looking at plastic in the lunch box and ways to reduce it. Prior to WasteNet’s visit, Room 6 had already come up with some great ways of turning waste into a resource by reusing the packaging in their lunch boxes.
Some of the cool ways in which they reused their packaging included making ‘resourceful robots’, and a giant glad-wrap snail that was made from just one week’s worth of glad-wrap!
Room 6 will be taking their enquiry to the next stage by going on the World of Waste (WoW) Tour where they will get a look behind the scenes at the Garage Reuse Shop, the Invercargill Transfer Station, Recycle Centre (Southland disAbility Enterprises) and the Pleasure Bay Reserve.
Check out what happened next.
Choose to send e-cards (or phone) a family and friends this Christmas.
Broken Christmas decorations can be put in your red rubbish bin.