Recycling Message Not Wasted on Students

New entrant and junior students from Levin School spent some time at the Bath Street recycling station learning about how to best use the service.

About 60 students and 10 support staff walked from the school in Tiro Tiro Road to the recycle centre carrying an assortment of things that needing to be disposed of.

The site visit was inspired by Waste Minimisation Officer Sandra Eckert of Environment Resource Recovery Sustainable Trust (ERRST).

Ms Eckert travels around schools in the Horowhenua District teaching children how to minimise household waste, prepare worm farms, compost and other activities that help achieve waste minimisation goals.

The Levin School students learnt the difference between the varying grades of plastic, the value of glass, and how paper and cardboard can be reproduced and entered back into the world after being made reusable again.

The message was given that recyclable goods can be made reusable as long as people choose to take it to the Recycle Station or place it in the Council’s kerbside collection.

After the visit to the Recycling Station was complete, the classes walked on to the Council Offices where they were shown a DVD of the Hokio Landfill.

They asked questions of Council Officers and had morning tea before heading back to school.

Photo: Levin School Teachers, Parents and Students at the Council Chambers after their visit to the Bath Street Recycling Station.