We <3 Making Paper!
Students worked hard at a paper making factory to recycle scrap paper into high quality artisan paper.
Beyond Recycling Blog
Waste Field Trips!
Grade 5 Students from Lady Grey Elementary School took a field trip to the Golden Landfill and Bottle Depot this fall. Students learned how waste is processed from the marshalling area where mattresses, shingles, metal and drywall are collected while waiting to be recycled. We witnessed a garbage truck dumping a load and the compactor … Continued
Fernie students take recycling into their own hands
Isabella Dicken Elementary School students took recycling into their own hands by making handmade paper. The Beyond Recycling program turned the classroom into a paper making factory and students got to work to turn waste paper from the school into new colorful paper they can use again. Students loved this big messy, noisy project and … Continued
Beeswax Wrap!
After learning about product lifecycle and how much one-time plastic we use in our day to day lives, the students from Mr. Brauer’s grade 5/6 class at Yaqan Nukiy school did a project to make beeswax wrap. Beeswax wrap can be used to wrap snacks in instead of using plastic wrap. It is easy to … Continued
The Story of Our Stuff
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Are You Sure It’s Waste?
How much of our waste can be diverted from our local landfill by reducing, reusing, repairing, refusing, rethinking and recycling? We took a trip to find out more!
History of Waste
On November 27, the students of Ms. Gadbois’ grade 5 class stepped way back in time to look at how the amount and type of waste created by humans have changed over time. With students dressed up as historic guests spanning from hunter gatherers to present day humans, we learned what kind of waste was … Continued
To Recycling and Beyond!
Blasting off with Beyond Recycling at Hume School
Evolution of Waste
A Waste-full History
Our History of Waste!
Wasteful, waste-of-time, wasting away, there are many expressions and words related to waste, but what is waste and has it always been as it is today? Students in Ms. Lema and Ms. Whittick’s Grade 7 classes in Invermere and Windermere, respectively, investigated those questions by a walk down memory lane. By looking at the history … Continued