‘Reduce, reuse, refuse and recycle’ key to saving our planet
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Looking outside the windows of Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong’s Junior School Library, one can see the beauty of nature. It’s a space to explore, discover and appreciate the natural environment around the school. However, we realize that our natural environment is being degraded on a daily basis by our own pollution, waste and choices. As such, we have taken the challenge to not only be sustainably conscious but to “act” and be a part of saving our environment.
Dulwich College Shanghai Pudong has an eco-code of four major ideas: reduce, re-use, refuse and recycle. Our community of “Green Panthers” continue to challenge us all to protect our natural environment.
In DUCKS, we have been learning about keeping the oceans clean and being careful about waste. A big initiative has been “No Waste Wednesdays” where the students “refuse” to get too much food and to eat what they have.
In the Junior School there is a community of “Green Panther” students who inform the school about current sustainable issues and encourage classrooms to not “reduce” our energy use. The energy monitors check classrooms to ensure lights and air conditioners are off when classrooms are empty.
Our journey to protect the environment continues as our students come up with their own ideas about how to be “Green Panthers.” Currently, Year 6 has a searching for practical ways to recycle across the school.
Additionally, Year 3 has been working with Terra-cycle to collect old toothpaste containers, floss and boxes to be recycled into park benches.
Finally, as the holiday season approaches we are all aware of the amount of waste that can be created with presents, wrapping paper and those plastic bows.
We are re-using our old decorations, wrapping paper and ribbons to create our festive classrooms. As the season comes to a close saving these decorations and paper makes us all aware that we need to use what we have and have what we use. In short, the best way we can “act” to help save our natural environment is to reduce, re-use, refuse and recycle.
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