Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Waste Survey

 This is the seniors' morning tea and lunch waste collected in  just one day:

104 chippy and bar packets.
140 pieces of glad wrap and yoghurt boxes  and lids and 1 plastic spoon.
 41 pieces of paper/cardboard.
1 piece  aluminium.
1 tin can.
44 pieces of organic materials

TOTAL: 320 pieces of rubbish in ONE DAY from the senior syndicate!!!
WEIGHT: 2kgs of rubbish.
We average 2240 pieces of rubbish a week.
In a month I calculate we would create approximately 67 200 pieces of rubbish.
In a year we would produce 24 528 000 pieces of rubbish.

This is NOT helping our environment. What can we do about it??    

Can you see that beautiful pear that was thrown out?


Look at these jam sandwiches thrown out - AND they hadn't even been unwrapped!  


All this wonderful organic materials Thank goodness most of it is just skins and apple cores. 
Survey carried out by Cameron, Jayden, Jordan and Liam
Presented by Liam

6 comments:

Emily said...

Wow Liam, Jordon, Cameron and Jaydon

You seem like you had a lot of fun working together with the waste awareness programme.

Unknown said...

Great survey Liam, you should add in the kg's as well

Mrs Henare said...

Next challenge: what can we do to make a difference??

brooklyn said...

wow that is a lot. how much do you think the world throws into the rubbish in a year.

Anonymous said...

Looks disgusting:(
Why did you wear those gloves.

Brodie said...

That must have been very unpleasant to sort out all of that disgusting rubbish. EWWWWWWWW!