Drysdale and Harvey have a chat

Today Drysdale Primary in Victoria and Harvey Primary in WA got to chat on Skype and share some ideas.  Following the conversation, we gave the Drysdale kids a really short time to come up with some notes on the ideas that were shared.

·         Drysdale Primary School has started the RED Project which is a great way to reduce soft plastics in Drysdale by taking all their soft plastics to school from home etc. and putting them in a big red bin.

      We have Nude Food Day every Tuesday.  Last year Drysdale Primary School won The Primary School award for rubbish free lunch.  Here's us winning the award.  We're very proud!  This photo was even in the local paper.

The RED (Recycle, Educate, Change) project is where you recycle soft plastics.  You cannot recycle soft plastic that has silver in the middle and it would take 660 years if it went to landfill until it breaks down.  We worked out that it takes about 8 generations to break down. Every kg of plastic we get $5.  (Mr Kennedy, the teacher, said that one student had no plastic to contribute because for her family, EVERY day is Nude Food day.  Fantastic!)

At Drysdale Primary School we use a Bokashi system which involves putting our food scrap in a bucket which we then put into a special bokashi bin and we put a special powder which breaks down the scraps into a liquid which we then put into our vegie garden to help the vegies.  Also we have a bucket in every classroom.

Drysdale Primary School is pretty good at remembering to turn our lights of, but some of us don't need to because in the year 5/6 area we have auto lights that has motion detector which saves lots of energy.

Written by the Millennium Kids at Drysdale Primary School.