The Story of Stuff
Teams of students investigated the Life Cycles of aluminum cans, glass bottles, pencils and jeans starting with the extraction of raw materials and ending with disposal of the used product.
Beyond Recycling Blog
Trip to the Creston Landfill
Last week Mrs. Walker’s Grade 5/6 class took a trip to the Creston Landfill. We looked at where the materials are recycled, how waste is separated into categories like metal, yard waste, woody materials and garbage.
St Mary’s Catholic School students are determined to reduce their classroom waste
Today’s Garbology lesson outcome was amazing!!! The discussion after the lesson was so inspiring. The students took it upon themselves to initiate their class “Eco Challenge”. One of their Eco Challenge will be series of waste challenges. The first one being a personal challenge to produce as little waste at lunch by bringing litter-less lunches . The … Continued
Away We Go!- Beyond Recycling at Hume School
What happens to all the stuff we throw “away”?
A Journey Through the History of Waste
This week in Mrs. Evdokimoff’s Gr.5/6 class, we took a journey through the History of Waste to see how our garbage habits have changed over time. We started by travelling back to prehistoric times, where our cavewoman Brooklyn demonstrated how throughout most of human history, we really only produced organic wastes that could easily be … Continued
Do YOU Want to be a Garbologist?
Rosemont’s Grade 5’s were asked that this week, when visited by “world-renowned” Garbologist Dr. LePew. She came to help them learn about their class’s “garbaging habits” by looking at what all goes into their class garbage bin and what should go elsewhere (like the recycling bin, for instance). When asked at the beginning of her … Continued
Frank K Mitchell students follow the story of their stuff
All that STUFF…Where does it go? When asked what the most memorable moment of the Beyond Recycling program was, Frank J Mitchell students responded overwhelmingly, “The trip to the landfill!” After spending several weeks learning all about the story of everything we use – what it’s made of, where those materials come from and the … Continued
Like a Load of Recycling
1315kg. That’s how much the J.A. Laird Elementary Gr. 5 class weighed – about the same as a load of recycling. As part of their Beyond Recycling learning, the students had an opportunity to visit the Materials Recycling Facility, bottle processing plant and the landfill with RDEK’s Loree Duzcek. They learned all about how Invermere’s … Continued
How Local Can You Get?
J.A. Laird Elementary Students took a recent trip to Winderberry Farm in Windermere to see just how local our food can get. At Winderberry, it’s about 100 feet – the distance from the field to the café. Winderberry’s knowledgeable farmer, Oliver led us through the greenhouses and fields, showing us the large variety of fruit … Continued
Beyond Recyling class checks out where to put which recyclables with RDCK
Students from grade 3/4/5 at JV Humphries in Kaslo went on the annual Beyond Recycling field trip to our transfer station and the new recycling station for Kaslo and area. Megan Deas from the RDCK led the field trip, which included a stop at Kaslo Ace Building Supplies to explore which hazardous was