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April 19 Wonthaggi clean up dayOn Tuesday the 10th of April the Wonthaggi secondary Environmental Action Group organized for a clean up day. The clean up day began at 10.30 am at the Wonthaggi Guide Park. Eight high school students turned up to participate in the day they were: Emma, Jasmine, Beth, Hailey, Cassi, Amy, Sarah and Charli. A man from the council turned up to brief us on safety, he gave us all a pair of latex gloves and some big strong bags to put the rubbish in. after receiving all we needed we got to work. We worked on the Guide Park until 12.00 and then had a break for lunch. After lunch we took some bags and began walking down to the main street of Wonthaggi. From this area the rubbish that we found most was McDonalds packaging and cigarette butts. The recycling bag began getting very heavy so one of the girls solved the problem by placing it into a trolley. This proved much more efficient and allowed us to collect a whole lot more! We then walked over to Big W and began cleaning the drain between Big W and Safeway there was lots of packaging and plastic in this area! We then moved onto the front of Big W. Here we found mass amounts of cigarette butts in the gutters and outside the front entrance. By the time we had finished this area it was time to start heading back to the guide park. We pushed a total of two trolleys down the Rail Trail. On the way we collected even more rubbish from the drain by this time our bags were full to the brim. We did however have some difficulty pushing the trolleys to the Guide Park as we had to push them over small ditches and the grass but we got there in the end. When we finally reached the Guide Park we sorted the recycling bags from the rubbish bags and propped them up against the back of the toilet block so the council could collect them. By the end of the day we had filled three 25litre bags and three shopping bags with rubbish and recyclables. The clean up was an enjoyable experience. Lots of laughs were had during the process. In the future we hope to organize more of these events. WSC Environmental Group Meeting 19/04/07Hey Environmental Activists here is a quick blog on what was talked about at todays (19/04/07) meeting
Ideas for school changes to make this year:
Paper Recycling bins to be put in every class room
Dual flush toilet systems
A water tank to conect to the toilets
New taps in the toilet as the current ones are leaky and hard to turn off
Possible solar hot water system to instal in the cooking room as alot of hot water is used in this room for dishes and hand washing
More bins to be placed around the schoolgrounds so as to reduce the amount of litter in the schoool environment
Possibly get the school to change from normal cartridge paper to a recycled form of cartridge paper
Have rules set in place to limit electicity use eg. have monitors to turn all the unneeded classroom lights during recess and lunch
Limit the thermostats on the classroom airconditioners to a number that saves energy yet still does it job
Have the airconditioners regularly cleaned so as to keep them working at full eficiency so power is not wasted
At the end of the day have all computer and electrical appliances turned of at the wall as 10% of a regular power bill goes to standby power
posisble activies to undertake this year
the 40 hour drought
Guided tours of the wonthaggi wind farm
Link up with other primary and secondary schools to undertake days such as clean up day and tree planting day
possible activities to undertake on environmental week
proposed date to be the final week of term two
a global warming quiz to be run through the daily bulitin with a question to be answered per day prizes for the quiz could include; the cool new green bags that have pictures of much loved cartoon charactors, energy efficient lightglobes, green colored sporting equiptment, stickers ect...
a possible day of limited electricity no lights no computers no tv no heaters no library computer to borow on no photocopying no aircons will have to make alowances for the telephones, fridges and general office printers
during one day we could open up room 6 and have programs running to calculate your ecological footprint
things we could run through a student newsletter
competition for a design for tshirts to be printed on
facts on how to reduce your carbon emmisions and live a greener life.
monthly reports on what the group has done
so this is the curent list of inicitives that are on ofer to us.
its time we begun our quest to change the world! We may be a small group of individuals in a world full of billions but we still have the power to implement meaningful important change!
next meeting is thursday the 26th of april hope to see you there! bring ideas with you
Charli
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