Earth Week 2011

We are proud to report:
Lots going on at BCE during Earth week:
and a big thanks to all the BCE kids, parents and not to forget teachers and staff to make a difference and keeping our Earth green.

The Earth Day Grocery Project:
BCE students decorated grocery bags with environmental messages.
Shoppers at Westlake HEB will receive their groceries in a "Celebrate Earth Day" bag.
Here are some Kindergarten students with their decorated bags:

A little side note on plastic grocery bags can be found all the way on the bottom.

Our T-shirt drive is in full force!
Students are bringing in old T-shirts. The Open arms company, which employs refugee women, is reusing these T-shirts to make new products: 100% recycling of our students T-shirts. Cool!


Plastic bags [1]:

• 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are used every year, worldwide.
• About 1 million plastic bags are used every minute.
• A single plastic bag can take up to 1,000 years to degrade.
• The U.S. goes through 100 billion single-use plastic bags. This costs retailers about $4 billion a year.
• Plastic bags are the second-most common type of ocean refuse, after cigarette butts (2008)
• Plastic bags remain toxic even after they break down.
• Every square mile of ocean has about 46,000 pieces of plastic floating in it.

[1] from http://www.reuseit.com/