Green team next meeting - what a waste!

First of all the result of our poll!
(Don't forget to vote next time you are here on this site!)

It takes, 80 - 100 years for a tin can (think soup or vegetable) to degrade (break down and disappear) if it ends up in the garbage dump.
That's a long time!!

Think about what would happen if this can were to be recycled instead?

Now think about the following items:

wool sock glass bottle pop can (aluminum plastic bag
plastic 6-pack ring plastic pop bottles banana orange peel paper rubber heel on a leather shoe leather boot Styrofoam cup



We will investigate the biodegradability of the above items?
Would they take days, weeks, months or years to degrade in a garbage dump?
Where else could these items go instead of our garbage?

See you Thursday, October 11 at lunchtime for our next meeting.
Bring a boomerang or littlerless lunch!
Remember new Green Team members always welcome!!

It's Waste Reduction Week in Canada Oct. 15 - 21, 2007
We'll also think about what WE can do as the Green Team of MV during this time!

Green Team success for first event!

Congratulations!! Four classes walked along with Green Team members for the World Record Walk day today! WRW, in association with International Walk to School day, was an attempt for communities to simultaneously walk together for 1 km.

Ontario hopes to break the record set by Australia last year.

Our next week's meeting will be Thursday, Oct. 11 at lunch.
Please bring your litterless / boomerang lunch to room 309!

Thank you!

Main goals of the MVMS Green Team

Environmental Awareness

Waste Reduction

Energy Conservation

School Greening


--------Thinking globally and acting locally.......
Someone once said...............
Thoughts become words, words become actions, actions become habits, habits become character and character becomes one's destiny................Go Green!