Recycling Plastic

Today we were fortunate to have Mary from the 'RED' group come to speak to us about how we can recycle plastic to make something new and useful. She told us that plastic is something you can make a shape or mould out of and that there are different types of plastic. She spoke to us about 'rigid' and 'flexible' plastic. We discovered some amazing facts - 1. It takes 660 years for one plastic bag to breakdown in landfill! 2. Every minute 7,150 plastic bags go to landfill! Part of our action for our Term 4 inquiry is to collect flexible bags that can be taken away and made in to something useful for our school. We want to collect 250kg of 'flexible' plastic so we need your help. There are 250 plastic bags in one kilogram so begin collecting! Thank you Mary for supporting our action.