This
December 4 pupils from the Gracemount High School Eco Committee were chosen to attend the
‘Make Waste History’ summit in the Assembly Rooms on George Street. Sophie
Alvarado, Hannah Brunton, Chloe Pearson and Abby Maule (all S1)
attended and took part in several workshops, all aimed at reducing the
amount of waste we produce. In
one workshop we were learning how to compost food waste, and making our
own mini composters. In another we were designing and making smoothies,
using a bicycle-powered blender! The
third was called ‘Canny Kitchens’ which taught how to reduce the amount
of food which we throw away, through ‘canny’ buying and cooking. There
was also a talk by Smithy Croft High School who are campaigning to have
all the plastic and polystyrene dinner ware in their canteen replaced
by re-useable plates and cutlery. Did you know that schools in Scotland
throw away millions of pieces of plastic cutlery and polystyrene plates
every year? The
summit gave us lots of think about and hopefully we will be putting
some of our ideas into practice with the rest of the Eco Committee very
soon, and helping to reduce our waste here at Gracemount. Mrs K Mountford |
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