Pollution - Lets make a change at Balmoral School.
by Room18 Room18
1. Take rubbish home
1.1. positive:School dosent have to pay to take rubbish away
1.2. minus: It will still go to the land fill
1.3. postive:we can recycle more of our rubbsh than we do at schooli
2. Plastic packaging
2.1. Positive: it is convenient
2.2. Positive: food comes wraped so it stays fresh
2.3. negative:more plastics,cardboards etc. in landfills
2.4. Positive: they can take their food home in the plastic bag.
2.5. Negitive:You can't recycle it
2.6. negitive: the packaging will still go to the dump and most packaging is made out of plastic.
2.7. negetive: you cant recycle it
3. compost bins
3.1. positive:we could make a worm farm and feed the compost to them.
3.2. minus:if you don't look after the worm farms properly they start to smell.
4. rubbish patrol
4.1. Positive:There wont be so much rubbish around balmoral school.
5. No Rubbish Bins
5.1. Positive: Children may become more responsible for taking their waste home.
5.2. Positive: Grounds will be cleaner. Better to look at and healthier.
5.3. Positive: Children will take waste home where it can be better recycled in collections.
5.4. Negative: Children won't care and will litter more frequently.
5.5. Negative: Vermin, such as rats and mice will feed from waste left by children in the grounds.
5.6. Negative: School waste managers won't agree, as it may make their job harder.
5.7. Negative: Teachers will have to 'police' new rules and children may take longer to eat.
5.8. negative: when children dump their rubbish it may draw parents away from putting their children into balmoral school.
6. Recycling Bins
6.1. Positive: Encourage people to reuse reduce and recycle.
6.2. positive: where to put rubbish instead of the ground.
6.3. positive: use compost bins for food scraps or a worm farm.
6.4. positive:if we have recyling bins it helps us recyle our rubbish.
7. No plastics allowed - use paper packaging
7.1. positive: recycle empty boxes and bags for pakaging.
7.2. positive: encourage super markets to have plastic bags that will decompose quicker.
7.3. positive: use disposeable nappies when changing babys.
8. Close the school canteen
8.1. negitive:do not reuse plastics with number 7s the chemicals are very dangerous
8.2. Positive: children should get not plastic wrappings
8.3. positive: will not waist money on food as it is cheaper to buy from supermarkets
8.4. Postive:Reuse or recycle the main paper bags.
8.5. Positive: Children will have to take their lunch rubbish home.
8.6. negitive: if the school changes the packaging for school they will have to take of the packaging from the food then put them into paper bags