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 :).