New Bins!

After a meeting in October 2013 with ADA training 4 new bins were ordered for a recycling area.  They are very smart and colourful. They have our school logo on them and are bilingual.

Our trip to the tip!

We were invited by Rhondda Cynon Taff's Streetcare Team to visit their Recycling plant in Bryn Pica, Aberdare to see exactly what happens with our rubbish when it's collected.  We were all amazed at the scale of the site and what rubbish was thrown away that could be recycled.  We had a go at a mini version of a sorting facility which was a lot of fun! We realised the importance of washing out your recycling items because all of the recycling is sorted by hand.  We had a quiz with Mal who asked us lots of questions about recycling and what we thought the recycled items were turned in to. We did very well answering the questions but we also learnt a lot.  We had a tour of the site and when we went to the tip we weren't aloud to get out of the vehicle because the smell was awful! We were shocked that people threw out so much when it could easily be recycled into something useful.  We are going to look at what we throw away in our school  and try to reduce, reuse and recycle as much as we possibly can.  Take a look at our photos below.