Observatory Junior School has seen the value to be found in discarded items like plastic, paper and packaging. With a bus stop next to the school food garden, litter from outside creeps into the school grounds. The eco-club set out to

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The learners have used toilet rolls and sucker sticks for knitting scarves and beanies from donated wool. They are now knitting with strips of plastic. Beautiful cell phone bags, necklaces and other bags are made from plastic bags which are often used only once. The food garden benefits from organic waste added to the worm farm or the compost heap. An opportunity was seen to learn propagation skills and have a constant supply of vegetable and herb seedlings. Two-litre plastic bottles were cut and threaded together into long lines. These were then stapled to the wooden frame and became the ‘walls’ of the seedling nursery. Milk bottles will be used for the roof and the gutters to harvest rainwater. This project is providing a useful dedicated space as the greenhouse where seeds will be germinated in trays, the seedlings planted into toilet roll holders and then transplanted into the food garden.

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December 12th, 2022

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