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Somewhere on this ship, Pong's stomach is rumbling. For such a small creature, his stomach makes a massive noise. I'm feeling hungry now too and it has got me thinking...just how much waste do leave behind after you’ve finished your packed lunch at school? There are a few, really simple things that you can do to reduce your waste. Why not try...
Simple isn’t it? I bet your wondering why you’re not doing it already. Well now you know how. Tell your family, tell your friends. Get everyone involved.
Food is in the news a lot. Lack of it, eating too much, or just plain wasting it. You can do something to reduce food wastage – everyone can. Why not have a look at this site – it’s called the “Love Food, Hate Waste” campaign.
The site is full of information to help you become more aware of the problem, giving you easy and practical things to do at home, saving money and helping the environment while you’re at it. Go see it and learn something new.
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BUSTA
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It looks like people are getting the wastebusting message in Surrey! Great news, don’t you think?
We visited some brilliant primary schools across the county to check on their progress. Pong and I could take a back seat whilst kids just like you were making a difference. Naturally we kept a safe distance downwind. Pong still thinks that if he leaves his dirty fur long enough it will clean itself. If there’s one thing I know, after many months of intergalactic travel in an overheated spaceship sat in close proximity to Pong, it is that fur does not self clean. Honestly, there are some things hidden deep in that fur, like bits of old dinner and fluff, that have been there so long they are beginning to compost. Filthy.
Luckily you lot on Earth seem to have better washing habits – well most of you, anyway. Kids better than teachers, I’ve found. You are a fragrant bunch.
Everyone at St Edmunds Catholic Primary School looked like they were having a brilliant time arguing. No fist fights or throwing things, just good honest debate. They’d watched the Wastebuster film and then got into groups to talk about whether or not paper recycling was a good thing. Both sides had strong points to make, but in the end the class decided that paper recycling was a really good way of saving natural resources and reducing landfill. After lunch, my mate James arrived with a big bag of worms and took a workshop to show how easy it was to set up a wiggly wormery. There was a competition to see which group could name the most things that could be composted – it got very competitive because everyone had such great ideas. In the end, everyone got to plant seeds and wave at the worms. I nearly gave away our hiding positi on when everyone pretended to be worms working food waste into compost – I laughed so hard watching them wiggling around. Probably a good idea to leave the actual composting to the worms.
Whilst the class was running about the playground, looking for leaves to put into the wormery, Pong was trying to strike up a conversation with the worms. They’re not a very sociable bunch – I suppose that they are just too busy working, munching their way through banana peels and apple cores to stop and talk. It didn’t stop Pong though – he jumped straight in. I had to retrieve him quickly, otherwise they would have started to break him down. I have to remind myself that Pong is actually a trained commando soldier on my planet – sadly on Earth he resembles the fluff by-product of washing dirty socks.
Over at Auriol Primary School everyone was getting really creative – they were dreaming up new stories and putting them into a storyboard, ready to start making their own stop-frame animations. It was brilliant because all this imagining and fun was actually helping them get their Silver Eco-Schools award!
Things were getting sorted at Pilgrims Way Primary – literally sorted and weighed and recycled. Not the children – just their waste. They were taking part in the Wastebuster Challenge, sifting through the rubbish left behind after a busy lunchtime and doing an audit of just how much waste there was. All this rubber-gloved work was earning them their Bronze Flag Award. Looking at what was being thrown away, separating out what could be composted and what could be recycled, gave them all the ideas they needed to create their own School Action Plan on waste. Now they’re planning to let everyone know how to reduce waste – and in a few weeks time they’ll be doing the audit again to measure how effective it was. Ideas, planning and action – that’s what I like to see. I’ll be sending a very favourable report back to Starfleet Command. All this work in Surrey is already having an impact on your intergalactic eco-rating – but there’s still more to do.
Come back and log on next week for news of the Wastebuster road trip to Liverpool!
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BUSTA
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Brilliant - you're connected to the mainframe!
The Wastebuster team have completed the primary investigation into Earth's problems with waste - but there's loads more to discover. My weekly blog entries will keep you up to date with waste busting activities here, there and across the planet. You'll find pictures, videos, news and reviews beamed directly from Wastebuster's BIN HQ.
Actually, you should be thankful that we're communicating through the medium of the Internet - Pong is still trying to conserve water by not washing. It's not the most fragrant way to save the planet, and is certainly not recommended to you.
During our travels, we met some brilliant people at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). They do a lot of important work helping to conserve Earth's natural environment. Click on the play button below to watch a short message from WWF and see how global warming is affecting the lives of polar bears.
Remember that you can find wastebusting tips and tricks on the main site. You can make a big difference every day with the choices you make.
Report back next week to read my next blog update and find out if Pong has found a water-less way to keep clean.
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BUSTA
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