Last week we went litter picking and we found 86 drinks bottles and cans! We found even more broken bits of glass from drinks bottles that had been smashed. We used the bottles and cans to write a message: DEPOSIT RETURN NOW! I think a Deposit Return Scheme is really, really important because it wouldContinue reading “More Deposit Return Scheme Campaigning”
Category Archives: Reusing and Recycling
Deposit Return Scheme
I’ve been campaigning for a Deposit Return Scheme to be introduced for drinks containers. A Deposit Return Scheme would mean that people would have to pay a little bit extra when they buy drinks in containers like bottles, cans or cartons and when they take them for recycling they would get the extra money back.Continue reading “Deposit Return Scheme”
Plastic Free July 2021
For Plastic Free July this year I made an enormous display board to put outside my house to raise awareness of the impact of unnecessary plastic and tell people about some good alternatives. One on side of the board I put lots of unnecessary plastic items like a plastic toothbrush, a baby wipe, a plasticContinue reading “Plastic Free July 2021”
National Children’s Gardening Week: Upcycling in the Garden
This week is National Children’s Gardening Week and I’ve been making some videos about helping wildlife in your garden. My first video was about plants for wildlife. My second video is about some ideas for upcycling in your garden. Here it is! I hope you enjoyed watching it and I hope it’s given you someContinue reading “National Children’s Gardening Week: Upcycling in the Garden”
Helping The Planet At Christmas
People are kind to each other at Christmas BUT at Christmas you often aren’t very kind to the planet! Did you know, an extra 30% of rubbish is produced and thrown away over Christmas compared with the rest of the year? That’s about 3 million tonnes of extra waste! This article is about some waysContinue reading “Helping The Planet At Christmas”
Milk Machine
I found out when I went to Cornish Stores in Boscastle that they have a milk machine in the back left corner! The first time you use it you buy a glass bottle and fill it with milk using the machine and you keep reusing the same bottle every time you go there. Every timeContinue reading “Milk Machine”
Upcycling a T-Shirt
I found a blue t-shirt in my chest of drawers and I didn’t really want to wear it because it was just plain. So I decided to make a hedgehog top out of it! First, me and Danny and Jake drew round our hands to make templates for the hedgehog’s prickles and I drew aContinue reading “Upcycling a T-Shirt”
Reusable Kitchen Roll
We have made some reusable kitchen roll. We made it instead of using paper kitchen rolls which are disposable and waste trees and usually come wrapped in plastic which is also bad. We made them out of old towels with holes in and old t-shirts and tops. This reused the clothes as well, which isContinue reading “Reusable Kitchen Roll”
Masks, Gloves and Wipes
Yesterday we went litter picking by the sea. As well as all the other rubbish, we found four disposable face masks, one glove, loads of disposable wipes and the nozzle from a soap or hand gel bottle. People are using lots of face masks at the moment because of the Coronavirus, which is mainly whyContinue reading “Masks, Gloves and Wipes”
Plastic Free July
Plastic Free July is a chance to try to start using less single-use plastic. Single-use plastic means things like straws or plastic bottles that are only used once and then thrown away. Single-use plastic is bad for the planet because it is only used once but it lasts forever! It can end up in theContinue reading “Plastic Free July”
