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Plastic Police makes MES Green Games winner
Marysville Elementary School (MES) is one of 10 BC Green Games winners across B.C.
This is the second year in a row that Marysville has won in the Green Games. Also from Kimberley, Lindsay Park Elementary won in 2010 and 2012 while T. M. Roberts Elementary in Cranbrook won in 2009.
“We should be very proud of our youth in Kimberley for making a difference! Our teachers are making a difference in the lives of the population of our area by helping our students learn life-long skills and habits that have an impact on our environment. We should all be proud,” stated Susie MacDonald, Wild Voices for Kids, Program Coordinator.
“Each year our distinguished group of judges, hailing from academia, scientific research, and the media select the projects that follow the contest criteria and aim to inspire eco-action in schools and communities.”
Winners of the BC Green Games Award will receive a $1,000 award to advance their eco-projects!
“Thank you so much to all those who participated in the games this year. It was a particularly competitive year and judges have been carefully deliberating over your amazing projects,” MacDonald related.
Marysville Elementary Plastic Police
The students at Marysville Elementary are at it again saving the planet one piece of garbage at a time. This year our team THE PLASTIC POLICE are on a mission to show what our school does on a daily basis not just for competition.
The Plastic Police are the students of Marysville Elementary on the look out to reduce all garbage generated at school and in the community, especially lunch garbage. At the same time we are also trying to increase our compost and recycling efforts.
Even though students and staff are already well practiced composter and recyclers we are really trying to educate our parents and community so that we can all play a big role in reducing waste at school. Our students are so confident, that we even made a goal to make our lunches almost waste free by our seventh week of calculating.
At the beginning of our measuring phase each classroom went over ways they could reduce garbage in lunches. Recycling and composting was the top idea to reduce waste. As a school we decided to measure by inches how much garbage was thrown away, this was done by putting a measuring tape on each classroom garbage can and at the end of the day a record was made. Our recycling efforts were also recorded and this was done by simply counting how many pieces of recycling each class made. As for compost, each day the students recorded how much height again by inches was added to our main compost in our garden.
After graphing our efforts for seven weeks our results were very successful. We managed to reduce our garbage consumption drastically! Our recycling definitely increased and our compost stayed pretty consistent.
Students at Marysville Elementary are very excited about our results and it is our new goal to continue our green efforts not only for the rest of this school year but always!
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