Paper making with BNZ

I found paper making really interesting because it makes good use of  recycled paper.
It"s a really hard job to do.
1. First you shred the old paper.
2. Next you soak it in water.

3. Then you blend it all together with a blender.

4. The next thing you do is push the mixture through a sieve,to drain the water .
5. Then you  push it down to make paper.
6. Then you take it out side and tip  it out.


by Lachie James

Air pollution/Global warming fact file

• Plastic is a big part of air pollution because plastic is  made of oil which is a fossil fuel meaning that it is a non-renewable fuel which can only be used once.

• Uranium is another type of fossil fuel that can be mined in Europe/Australia and Canada.

• When plastic is burned it can turn into greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, which causes global warming and destroys bits and flakes off our atmosphere.

• Also when too much plastic is incinerated [in other countries] it causes pollution.

•  In China too many gases were spread around and they have caused a high level of air pollution.

BY ANTON WEIR

Sustainability at Home by Sian Crichton

My family works hard to care for our environment.

Marnie and I both walk to school every morning, and walk back home every afternoon.

Since my Mum rolled her ankle, she has to drive to get to work, but before that she has been walking every day.

My Dad grows his own veggies, and often let's me take some home for Mum to cook.

My half step-dad is very careful about what goes in the recycling bin, making sure that only things that can be recycled go into the green bin. We put in things like coke cans, milk bottles, tissue boxes and lots more.

Instead of using power by the heat pump, we use the fire, which is only put on if it is really cold.

When paper is unwanted when the printer doesn't print properly or drawings are discarded, I put it back into the printers print box so that the other side can be reused again.

Small clothes, old toys, read books or small shoes get put into a box and are taken to my 7 year old half step-sister Fay.

Before school, Marnie and I are in charge of turning off the power, including lights and switching off the TV.

Mum had the idea of having a recycling bin for inside. It's for the smaller recyclable things like tissue boxes, junk mail and magazines.

WHAT I DO AT HOME By Lewis Adamson

My family uses reusable shopping bags when we go to the supermarket so we prevent using plastic bags reusable bags hold more things.

Because we use reusable bags there will be

less plastic around.

My vege garden gives my family free vegetables to cook.

I think that my family are doing our bit for the environment.  If everybody did their little bit the world would be a lot better off!

Alexandra Wastebusters by Danielle Croy

“Yay” I said to Amelia we are here. I raced across to the other end of the bus. “Thank you” I cheerfully said to the bus driver as I got off.  I could smell the disgusting stench of rubbish all over the dirty ground YUCK!. It smelt like mouldy cheese.

I saw all of the rubbish all over the ground, crunch, crunch went the rubbish under our feet. Broken up bits of milk bottles crushed into the dirt.   I could see all the rubbish stacked in big piles.  There were bundles of cardboard, broken up cars, and piles of old wood scraps.

Boom... streak,  a big hand with sharp teeth like a claw grabbed the pile of rubbish and dumped it on to the pile of other rubbish. Crashing down with a loud thump.

We walked around to a big container,  it was full of empty beer bottles all different colours, shapes and sizes.  The big blue container was almost

full and ready to be shipped off to Singapore, where more glass bottles would be made.

It was now time to board the bus and head back to school, I learnt a lot about our rubbish and where it goes.

SUSTAINABILITY AT HOME By Kaia Hutchinson

My family recycles all the things that can be recycled. We pass down - tops, pants, dresses and toys to friends and family.  We also pass down unwanted books and shoes.

Instead of throwing out all these items, we share them around with others, this is helping the environment, by not filling the rubbish dump!

We have a worm farm to put our compost in.  We use the worm castings on our vegetable gardens.  I have short showers so I don’t waste water.

My family like to help the environment when we can.

SUSTAINABILITY AT HOME By Caleb McKinlay

I grow vegetables at my house with my Dad. We eat everything that we grow.

I have my own little compost bin that I put all my scraps into and the worms eat it making good compost for our garden.

My family uses reusable bags when we go to the supermarket, to prevent the amount of plastic produced.

We know for a fact that the wasted plastic bags end up in the ocean, killing turtles and other marine life.  

RECYCLE By Danielle Croy

Once upon a time it was windy, Mum told me to put out the milk bottle.  So I got my jacket on and my shoes, and headed off to put the milk bottle out in the waste bucket. Then I saw that nothing was in the waste bucket, I thought that was strange!

I thought I saw some milk bottles there yesterday.  I heard a noise, I turned around and I saw our milk bottles on the road.  I went down and I waited until no cars were coming…  then I quickly crossed the road and got them.

If I didn’t go and collect them they would have blown down the street, and probably ended up in Lake Dunstan!

How yucky!!

Do We Actually Need Wheelie Bins?

By Daisy-Louise Poole

Imagine, you have four children and you’ve just got home from work and your rubbish bin is full and the wheelie bin is overflowed and the wheelie bin company doesn’t empty the wheelie bin until next week!

What would you do?

Wheelie bins should go back to being every Wednesday until people are better educated on recycling.

Did you know that if you live in Bannockburn you could save more $150 every year if you sent back your wheelie bin and put it towards a holiday or something!

Do you agree with every fortnight if you do consider this… once you start heading to the end of the first week it might/will overflow and wild dogs, possums and even cats might come and drag waste out of your bin and onto the street making it a health hazard.(Imagine the flies in summer…)

I have a question for you, with every small bar of chocolate bar you buy does it have to be individually wrapped ? As an alternative you could buy one big bar of chocolate and break a piece off every time you feel like chocolate and when all that’s left is the wrapping you could make it into a dolls dress!

Or instead of buying two fizzy drinks for children you could buy one big bottle and then when the fizzy is gone you could cut off the bottom of the plastic bottle and put some string through a ball and make a game. There are lots of ways to buy and make plastics into things without hurting the environment!

Did you know by the time this generation’s children have children there will hardly be any trees left in the world ? At the rate we’re going ,what a terrible world we are creating for future generations.

My solution is to reduce, recycle, reuse and to compost any food scraps to plant new fruits or vegetables to make a healthier family whilst reusing, be innovative!

How to make a Gods Eye by Natalia

Gods eyes are good for the environment because you are reusing sticks and wool.

What do you need?

1. Two sticks about the same size
2. They need to be a little bit thick
3. A variety of coloured wool
4. You might need a adult to help you at the start
5. And maybe some scissors 

Instructions 

1. Get the two sticks and  cross them over
2. Get your wool and tie two knots they need to be tight so that the sticks don't move
3. Start to move the string up and down and around after a little while you can stop that and do under and up and under and up keep on doing that until you want to change the colour
4. To change the colour cut the string and then get your next colour and then tight a knot then keep on going remember to tie the knot tight.
5. Even if it does not work out you can still try again.