Sunday, October 30, 2011

Pumpkin Alert!!!

Friday, November 4th, 2011 
Pumpkin Collection and Recycling Day at BCE

Early morning, freezing cold and dark!
Nonetheless, we had quite a crowd of 1st and 4th grade volunteers with parents together to help take pumpkins out of cars and into the pick up truck and trailer.

Three first graders redirecting traffic:

A BCE student carrying a pumpkin to the trailer:

After morning drop off, we had the pick up truck full to the max with pumpkins.
The trailer was about 1/3 full.

Coming back in the afternoon, the trailer was packed with pumpkins!
It was quite an orange sight!

Such a great turn out and
a wonderful community effort to save pumpkins from going to landfill and harming our Earth through green house gases.


A few more parents came to drop off pumpkins once school was out.
BCE students helping with pumpkin collection in the afternoon:


The trailer went to Alexander Family Farm.
BCBC Green Committe and a few students helped unload pumpkins.
It was very excited to see the cattle eat our pumpkins.
What a great way to reuse Halloween pumpkins!



Our 1st grade team took the pick up truck to Green Gates Farm. 
This farm has pigs and chickens that love pumpkins.

Unloading pumpkins in front of the compost bin:


A pig eating a pumpkin:



Tuesday and Thursday, November 1st and 3rd, 2011
1st grade volunteers and parents reminded car riders during morning drop off to keep their pumpkins out of the trash and landfill and rather bring them to school Friday, November 4th, for recycling (compost and animal food).



Monday, October 31, 2011: 
 ORANGE is the new “green” for Halloween at BCE

DON’T SCARE THE EARTH ON HALLOWEEN!
This FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4th the Barton Creek Elementary School will be collecting carved and uncarved pumpkins to share with nearby pig and cattle farms.

Parent and student volunteers will be collecting your pumpkins during morning “Drop- Off” OR if you prefer, place your pumpkins in the trailer parked behind the school anytime that same day. The trailer will leave BCE after school.

Not only will we be making quite a few cows and pigs happy with a pumpkin feast, our Earth will thank you as well for being ORANGE (The new “green” for Halloween)! 

Did You Know?
"About 1.1 billion pounds of pumpkin end up in our landfills after Halloween. Not only do these pumpkins take up space, they emit methane, a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide." [1]

 If just 10 percent of all pumpkins sold this year were composted instead of being thrown out with the garbage, 100 million pounds of waste could be kept from the nation's landfills annually. The effect of this level of waste reduction would be as though nearly 42,000 U.S. households stopped producing garbage altogether.” [2]

[2] www.blueegg.com/answer/Compost-Your-Jack-O-Lantern.html

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