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
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