This week our eco-warriors and school counsellors were lucky to take part in an ‘Eco Workshop’ were our friend Rob from the ‘School Cycle Scheme’ came and chatted to us about the good and bad benefits of plastic. We talked about the properties of plastic, what makes it a strong and reliable resource and ways we can reuse it. We looked at other materials and this led to lots of discussions about materials and their properties and the impact these materials can have on the planet. Our eco-warriors were shocked to realise just how much plastic waste Hull has alone and how that even after 500 years of possible decomposing, it never fully disappears! Rob showed us some of the ways his ‘Recycle Scheme’ is starting to change this in Hull and how our eco-warriors can be apart of this journey. Our children were very inspired by this discussion and have started the ‘Treasure Tree’ award this week in an attempt to get our school classes using their paper bins productively. We are about to start our plastic bottle cap recycling journey too, and will hopefully raise some earth tokens in order to buy some recycled equipment for our school!