Waste Audit 2013

We have reduced our waste by 40% since starting our Wastewise programme 2 1/2 years ago.

Which is great.  We still need to reduce our consumption of paper towels.  We use 19 kg of paper towels a day at our school  times that by 5!

2014 we want to reduce this problem as paper towels that  makes up 50% of our waste

Balmoral Eco Warriors challenges you to using one paper towel-

 Shake your hands dry before taking one piece.  Money saved on getting rid of paper towels means more funds for art supplies, technology and sports equipment.



Keep up the great work of reducing, reusing and recycling.

Merry Christmas

Balmoral Eco Warriors.

Guerrilla Gardening- Beautifying Our World

http://www.guerrillagardening.org/?gclid=CJfP--v2srsCFYQRpAodyHsALA

How we look after our Environment together  at Balmoral School.

Wrapper Free Lunches our Eco Stars!

In San Francisco they use Waste Stations and so do we at Balmoral School

Rubbish duty tips for all of us -everyday. 

The best lunchboxes are wrapper free, otherwise your waste needs to be  put back into your  lunchboxes and disposed of at home in the correct way.  At school we make sure that recycled paper goes  into the  Green  Paper for Trees bins or the  yellow waste station bins, recycled waste into the  blue bins, and  food scraps into your class food-scrap worm farm container (to be emptied into Hungry bins) and all non-recyclable waste goes into the red bins. 
And paper towels need to be screwed up into a ball -the size of our fists before placing into toilet bins.

Thanks- your sustainable choices do make a big difference.

"Our choices at all levels—individual, community, corporate and government—affect nature. And they affect us."

— David Suzuki

Hungry Bins

http://www.hungrybin.co.nz/

Our Intermediate School now has their own Hungry Bin- As a school we raised money from our Balmoral Farmers Market to purchase the Hungry Bins.

Hungry Bins are Clean, Easy and Simple to use.  Our School works in partnership with Hungry Bins.  If you are interested in purchasing a Hungry Bin please contact rebecca@balmoral.school.nz - A contribution from your purchase will go back to the school...Thanks Hungry Bins :).

David Attenborough - inspiring our Eco Warriors.

 Balmoral Eco Warriors BEWs meet regularly on Thursdays- we come together to find sustainability problems at our school and find strategies ad  solutions to solve the problems.

All welcome to join  see Rebecca in Room 26 if you would like to join! :-)

Join TK and Room 26 for the wrapper free lunch box challenge!

Kia ora everybody,

TK would like to remind everyone about making sure that  all waste is being disposed of correctly.  After Morning Tea and Lunch it is important that we are caring for our Enviornment by making  sure that  eating areas outside our classrooms are rubbish free.

We can all  help each other to  do this by  reminding each other to put our wrappers in our lunchboxes and  take our waste  home  to sort  and dispose  of with care.

Better still he loves seeing wrapper free lunches and asks you to join the Room 26 challenge of bringing wrapper free lunchboxes to school- an easy way to care for  our Environment.

Travel Wise Week 13-17 May

Travel Wise Week

Nature Art-Egg Dying using natural resources Room 11. Tie leaves around egg with thread and dye in brown onion skins and hot water.

Awesome job Room 7 - growing and selling their potatoes for the Balmoral Farmers Market

Well done Koru- The Walking Tree.

 Whanau Koru showing us on the Travel Wise Walking school tree how they use sustainable means of travel.  

A leaf or piece of fruit means we either came to school by the Walking school bus, walking  or our scooters,

Tino Pai Koru!

Urban Guerrilla Gardening

http://www.guerrillagardening.org/

Keep New Zealand Beautiful

Keep New Zealand beautiful