Friday, May 25, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Shred Day 2012 at BCE
A big THANKS to Scott Lowrey and "Certified Shred"
to donate his time and his company truck to shred sensitive papers, bank documents, tax returns for our community.
Did you know that shredded paper cannot go into a single household recycling bin?
Certified Shred will bring the shredded paper to a recycling facility.
Most of the paper will be made into toilet paper!!!
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Announcement
Shred Day 2012
Saturday, April 28th,
9 to 11 am
at BCE
Barton Creek Elementary and Certified Shred are hosting a shred day to give the community and
businesses the opportunity to keep their identity safe while helping the environment.
Shred Day 2012 is a free on-site
document shredding event which allows people and businesses to shred their
old bank statements, tax returns, and any other sensitive documents they may
have.
Keep in
mind that we are only shredding documents,
so NO newspapers or any plastic material.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Plastic Bag Recycling
BCE students saved all these plastic bags from going into our landfills.
BCE collected over 17,000 plastic bags in 1 week!!!
where the plastic bags will go to a recycling facility to be reused.
Who won the plastic bag contest?
Ms Schumann's class!
Ms Schumann's class and Mrs Bowerman's class collected each over 3,000 plastic bags!
Plastic bags have been around for only 50 years. Scientists are not sure how long they take to degenerate on a landfill. Actually plastic bags don't bio-degrade, they do photodegrade (through ultraviolet light).
Estimates range from 500 to 1,000 years...for sure a very long long time!Our 17,000 plastic bags were just saved from spending 1000 years on a landfill!!!
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Announcement
BCE and HEB Westlake are working together again!
BCE will collect Plastic Bags for Recycling
all through Earth week.
History of this event:
Last year, 54 stores participated in the School Recycling Contest collecting more than 958,000 plastic bags!! The record amount of bags collected at one school is 83,000. The average school collects nearly 16,000 plastic bags. In 2011, HEB recycled 4.1 million plastic bags!!
What are the school's responsibilities?:
- each classroom must collect the bags from students daily
- school leader will need to submit the grade level that collected the most plastic bags and total bags collected as a school
- educators in each classroom will be responsible to keep track of all the bags collected daily then combine for a grand total at end of contest
- contest will go for the entire week of April 16-20
What will the winning classroom win?:
- celebration with HE Buddy, healthy snacks, drinks and a $150 HEB gift card
Friday: Trash Reduction Contest
Our first unannounced weighing (Tuesday, April 10th):
The grade that will reduce their trash the most on Friday
will receive extra recess!!!
* compost all leftover fruit and veggies
* recycle all milk bottles
* bring in reusable lunch containers, Laptop Lunchboxes are great!!!
...order with BCE and you'll get free shipping and 15% discount on products!
Kindergarten: 28.00 lbs
1st grade: 33.60 lbs
2nd grade: 30.16 lbs
3rd grade: 27.47 lbs
4th grade: 24.52 lbs
5th grade: 22.78 lbs
The grade that will reduce their trash the most on Friday
will receive extra recess!!!
How to reduce trash?
* Eat your food!!!* compost all leftover fruit and veggies
* recycle all milk bottles
* bring in reusable lunch containers, Laptop Lunchboxes are great!!!
...order with BCE and you'll get free shipping and 15% discount on products!
Who won the trash reduction contest?
2nd grade!
2nd grade reduced trash by 25%!!! That was a total of 8 pounds less trash!!!
3rd grade reduced trash by 5 1/2 pounds and 1st grade reduced trash by 5 pounds!
Way to go BCE students!
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What could possibly be better?
The students are actually keeping up their good RRR behavior.
On Friday in the cafeteria, I did not find a single milk bottle going into trash from 2nd grade. I had a student come to me asking me if he could recycle the 3 empty milk bottles I was holding in my hands. I was very impressed!!!
Thursday: Paper Bag decoration
BCE students decorated paper bags for HEB Westlake.
Those were handed out on Earth Day at HEB Westlake.
Paper bags were all very creative: pointing out Earth facts, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle facts.
Students did an awesome job!
Some of the many paper bags:
HEB Westlake gave out prices for best decorated paper bag per grade!
Here are the winners:
Catherine, 5th grade, Mrs. Dearth's class
Grace B., 4th grade, Mrs. Alkire's class
Olivia, 3rd grade, Ms. Roberson's class
Madi, 2nd grade, Ms. Bowerman's class
Athena, 1st grade, Mrs. Peichoto's class
Joseph, Kindergarten, Ms. Hanley's class
Tristan, ELT grade, Ms. Swiderski's class
Congratulations!!!
HEB Westlake and BCE are working together:
Those were handed out on Earth Day at HEB Westlake.
Paper bags were all very creative: pointing out Earth facts, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle facts.
Students did an awesome job!
Some of the many paper bags:
HEB Westlake gave out prices for best decorated paper bag per grade!
Here are the winners:
Congratulations!!!
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Announcement: HEB Westlake and BCE are working together:
Each BCE students is decorating an HEB
Paper Bag with Earth themes.
Paper Bag with Earth themes.
HEB will hand these out to costumers on
Earth Day, Sunday, April 22nd.
Earth Day, Sunday, April 22nd.
Come back here and check out our BCE's greatest Paper Bags!!!
Tuesday T-shirt Drive
Last year's week long T-shirt drive got Open Arms 350 T-shirts.
Could we beat this number in just 1 morning collection of T-shirts?
YES!!!
We collected 710 T-shirts this morning.
Way to go, BCE!!!
A whole minivan full of T-shirts:
Recycle your T-shirts!
Donate your T-shirts!
We need your burnt orange, maroon, red, brown, gray and black T-shirts!
Your fun artsy T-shirts are welcome, too!
Bring them in and put them in the Open arms collection box.
BCE will have 5th grade student helpers to collect T-shirts in car lanes.
You'll be helping Open Arms, a company employing refugee women at a living wage in Austin, TX!
Their fashionable skirts and scarves are from re-purposed 100% recycled materials!
Car lane and bus rider box
Could we beat this number in just 1 morning collection of T-shirts?
YES!!!
We collected 710 T-shirts this morning.
Way to go, BCE!!!
A whole minivan full of T-shirts:
BCE students learned that we can REUSE T-shirts!!!
Open Arms
– a company with a conscience – was founded to employ refugee women living in
Austin, Texas to help them break the cycle of poverty by earning a reasonable
wage that enables them to support their families.
Open Arms is on a mission to do it differently - creating
awareness that everyday choices can change the world.
Open Arms reuses T-shirts to make beautiful skirts and scarves!
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Announcement
Recycle your T-shirts!
Donate your T-shirts!
We need your burnt orange, maroon, red, brown, gray and black T-shirts!
Your fun artsy T-shirts are welcome, too!
Bring them in and put them in the Open arms collection box.
BCE will have 5th grade student helpers to collect T-shirts in car lanes.
You'll be helping Open Arms, a company employing refugee women at a living wage in Austin, TX!
Their fashionable skirts and scarves are from re-purposed 100% recycled materials!
Drive Date and Collection Box Locations:
Tuesday, April 17thCar lane and bus rider box
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