Diary from U.T.C.V.SCHOOL

Tuesday 15. of September 2009 | 13:32 (GMT+2)

Converting waste into teaching aids

Class: U.T.C.V.SCHOOL | By: Tenzin

On saturday , September 12 , 2009 . it was really a great moment for all the members of our school my climate group , as we got a separate room for us to carry out our different activities and meetings related to keeping our environment clean . One thing after our discussion , we have come to a decision that meanwhile we wait for the financial aid to caryy out the project , " UPPER T.C.V. SCHOOL GOES CFL" , we thought why not carry out a project for converting the waste into something useful . For that our first step is to collect all the milk packets that each home recieves every morning . The milk packets as we know can not be recycled , so it goess off as waste only .Because it has got quite a hard covering , we decided to convert all those into useful teaching aids , like letters , playing cards, sticking important  news , flash cards . But you have to be careful about one thing, and that is you must wash the packet when u pour the milk in a container . Keeping it unwashed too long will cause it to smell and get very dirty . So after washing it off you dry it and then its ready for use . The only that is needed are scissors , marker pen  and scale . Hows the idea., the next time you want to throw the waste , think again as its ready for use in some other useful purpose.

 

Comments

Date: 19. of November 2009 | By: Alice

I am one of the teachers on the myclimate project at Gymnasium Seefeld in Thun, Switzerland, and I am really impressed with your project of recycling and using empty milk cartons. So much valuable material gets wasted, even much more so in our country than in yours. We do have recycling schemes set up by the communities (villages and bigger cities) and we are glad that at least we can separate our garbage and put glass, metal and paper in different bins for recycling. Still, a lot of useful material is thrown away.
You are an inspiration for us to be more conscious about recycling paper, plastics, glass, etc. Thanks!