Mini Landfills

 

In our inquiry Reduce, Reuse, Recycle we have learnt that a lot of rubbish sent to landfills is made up of materials that can be recycled or reused. Landfills are filling up with materials that stay in the ground for hundreds of years which is not good for our environment.
Room 18 have made our own mini landfills so we can see for ourselves which materials decompose and those that do not.
We buried glass, plastic wrap, food scraps, plastic, paper and chip packets and made predictions which materials we think will breakdown the most, a little or not at all over the next 5 weeks.
We worked in our Kagan groups and we all agreed that the hardest part was lining the shoebox with tinfoil!
We are looking forward to digging up the the landfills in the next few weeks to see what goes on!