Recycling weekend

On 25.-27.3. we had a special 50/50 - weekend at our school. Our parents comittee organized a fleamarket at school. Everybody was able to come and sell all kind of things that are useless for them but maybe a treasure for someone else. As you can see in the picture, there were many people and over 20 families were there for selling. This is real recycling things. In many families, actually children were there to sell and buy. We also carried all the "lost and found" clothes to the fleamarket and everybody could check if there were familial clothes or even just some clothes that you would like to use. In the end of the fleamarket some parents wanted to donate some skates and children books to our school.

We also got big containers for electric waste and metal junk in our school yard. Everybody could throw metal and electric waste in to the container for free. We made co-operation with Iki-Metalli company. The containers were there the whole weekend and we are actually getting some money from the metal junk. As you can see in the picture, a lot of broken bicycles and old computer monitors are now in right place.

The last but not the least action for the same weekend is to take part in Earth hour -campaign to help nature by swiching the lights off in the evening for one hour. You can see a video about that action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMwArLkF0oU





Heidi, active member of our energy team, wrote:
"In our school there was recycling happening whole weekend. On Friday we got two big containers in school yard. You could bring there metal and electric waste. We get money out of this junk; for example 5e/kilogram for copper. We took junk from home with my father and brought it to both containers. We carried there two old televisions, four computers, toaster, pans, lantern and metal garden chairs. Just after that we went to P.E. hall. There was a fleamarket event. There were about 25-30 sellers and they were selling for example clothes, books, cups, toys and some bikes. In the evening I went to icehockey match, but my mother and my brother took part in Earth hour -campaign. So we saved energy the whole weekend!"