The Greenies

Who are the Greenies?

The Greenies are a group of students in the Primary School (PYP) that strives to increase awareness regarding climate change and sustainability. We used to meet once a week, but this year we have chosen to take on different responsibilities under the guidance of teachers.

We want to focus on:

• Collecting paper for recycling
• Collecting card for recycling
• Promoting a 'Foil Free PYP'
• Finishing the Greenhouse

The Greenies have been out and about the Primary Years Classrooms and collected nearly three kilos of non-compostable waste from snacks and lunches.

These pictures show some of the typical packaging that they found. We discussed the possible options of reducing this waste. A lot of the packaging was from individual yoghurts, juice drinks, etc. These could be bulk purchased and put into reusable plastic containers.

Other solutions include using:

a reusable lunch box,

reusable sandwich or food wrappers,

a reusable drinks bottle,

a cloth napkin,

reusable cutlery,

paper wrapping, or

the new school lunches.

We will be working together with 'Roots & Shoots' on the Greenhouse and other projects.