Dear Irish green friends,

Last week was our ‘Zero Garbage Day’ ! Here are some pictures of what we did :

• We talked about what happens to our garbage and how we can prevent it at school.
• We put up posters on how to prevent waste/garbage.
• We showed the trailer of ‘Midway’, a film by Chris Jordan. That made a lot of emotional impact, because we could see what garbage in the water can do to animals.
• We made a power point presentation about your school St. Brigids and what you did on your ‘Eat local’ day.
• We danced to our theme song ‘We doen het zelf wel/we’ll do it ourselves’. The lyrics tell us that we can do something about the problem ourselves.
• Bizzy, our eco-mascot visited our little ones. He brought the garbage-teacher along = one of the teachers is wrapped in tape (the adhesive side on the outside). Bizzy told the toddlers to stick all the garbage they found in the playground onto this garbage-lady. He told everybody that he was really pleased when all garbage was in the bin and he asked what the toddlers can do to prevent a lot of garbage (no plastic or silver paper in the lunchbox, no cans and brigs but a drink bottle instead, no paper around cookies but the cookies in a little box, etc.) We already do this in our school, but every year we repeat the same things just to keep focused.
• We sent a flyer home to the parents reminding them about tin foil, cans, plastic, etc.

During the next weeks we will draw attention again on how to avoid garbage and finding more sustainable solutions.

Best regards,

Joëlle Erkens

Gemeentelijke Basisschool Overijse

Please note: The green team are having a few technical problems!! Photographs to follow.