This week Mrs Purdie asked some people to work with Mrs McCabe and Mrs Simpson and we were seeing how many plastic bottles we waste every week. Paige, Lewis, Maxx, Louise and Sarah gave up their lunch time to help our school cut down on plastic.
So when we did this job we were all in different places around our lunch hall to collect used water bottles. Half of us were up at the sink and half was at the bins. Then just before the bell went we all gathered up and counted the bottles. We wrote down the amount of wasted plastic bottles on a chart.
When people gave us their used water bottles we emptied out the excess water then put the bottles around the sink. We then counted them and wrote down how many we collected.
We worked out that per year we use roughly 16,800 plastic bottles!! This shocked us and we would like to do something about it. Our plan is to reduce the amount of plastic bottles we are using and make sure that any we do use are recycled responsibly. Our plan is to use jugs of water and cups at lunchtime.
We hope that other schools will do this too and together we can all help reduce plastic waste.
This is amazing!! The amount if plastic bottles used is so high, can you imagine how many must be used across the primary schools in West Lothian?! It will get interesting to see how the chart progresses as St Ninians becomes more plastic-waste aware and “bins” the bottle (metaphorically, rather than literally 😉) Well done to everyone involved. You are being environmentally conscious as well as reducing costs for West Lothian – a win win situation 👏👏👏
Great to see St Ninian’s is supporting this opportunity to ‘make a difference’ to our home – Planet Earth.
Please spread the word to your friends and families and thank you for listening to my request.
Wow so many!
What a simple idea for reducing plastic by using water jugs. Washing and reusing jugs and plastic cups will make a big impact on one school. Great work, not just thinking outside the box but is there a box at all.