The Eco class trip

 This week on Wednesday we went to the eco sort and the Eco Shop. At the eco sort, we saw how the machinery that they use to sort the different stuff they put in the recycling bins works. We also learned the 5 Rs are Reduce Reuse Recycle Recover and Residual Disposal.

• Reduce is the most important - Reduce means useless waste so use 1 bag instead of 13.
• Reuse is the second most important one - Reuse is day 1 where you get a coffee cup and the next day you put coffee in it again
• Recycle is the third thing you should do after the 1st 2 steps Recycle is if you had bottles you would make another bottle out of it.
• Recover is stopping using more and start recovering so using less.
• Residual disposal is a big fancy word for rubbish.

We also learnt to take the bottle caps off because it makes all things weak and brittle that they make out of the bottles.
Then we went to the eco shop and we imagined that we had 500$ to spend to create a new flat. I got utensils and all the normal stuff. I also bought a chair with a bear on it.

Overall I wasn't really looking forward to but when I got there I really liked more then I thought I would and I learned lots in the day overall.