Thursday, April 14, 2011

A Couple of Green Tips



By Emma C.

Our school has done a good job staying green. Why don’t you try to green up your homes we have at our school? Here are a few tips for starters:

1. Recycle: buy a recycling can

2. Reduce paper: use both sides

3. Eat healthier: to stay unwrapperish*

4. Reuse plastic bottles: buy a water bottle

5. Reuse newspaper: for making fires, paper mache, wrapping gifts, and other things

6. Decrease pencils: pick up the pencils on the ground!

7. Plant gardens: like Holmes school!

8. Compost**

9. Use bird feeders: (to attract birds)

10.Don’t litter: it destroys the animal’s ecosystem

Don’t forget the Three R’s! And remember, be waste free every day, not just on Wednesdays.

*Unwrapperish means to not have more manufactured wrappers on your food than necessary.

* *Composting means to have an outside tub full of dirt, garbage (orange peels, banana peels, eggs shells…), and worms. Even though composting takes a while for results, the soil turns out VERY rich.

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