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=WHAT A LOAD OF RUBBISH AT OURSPACE= To 4MME Class Members,

I would like to take this opportunity to thankyou for the work you have completed related to our "What a Load of Rubbish @ Ourspace" theme, this term. Your awareness of the human impact on the environement has imporved so much over the past three weeks.

Some of the tasks you have completed include:
 * Environmental MindMaps,
 * Summaries from observations of "ourspace"
 * Classifying waste items
 * Identifying the difference between degradable and non-biodegradable rubbish/waste
 * Posing interview questions for Brimbank's Environmental Eduaction Officer
 * Accepting the challenge of "Monitoring our lunch-box waste" over a week with the aim of REDUCING, REUSING, RECYCLING at all times.

THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ARE YOUR TASKS FOR THE WEEK.

COMPLETE BY FRIDAY 15th MAY 2009**
 * PLEASE ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS ON YOUR WIKISPACE IN FULL SENTENCE FORMAT IN YOUR THEME PAGE.
 * 1) **Provide five** (5) examples of NON-BIODEGRADABLE RUBBISH
 * 2) **Provide fiv**e (5) examples of BIODEGRADABLE RUBBISH
 * 3) **Why** is it important for people to "make a difference" with regard to household waste..?
 * 4) What are **YOU** doing to make a difference to the amount of rubbish/waste you create..?
 * 5) **Please comment** on how much rubbish you have **observed** in our **school grounds** over the past three weeks... Is our environment looking more attractive or is rubbish still an issue..? What about "Ourspace" ? Is it looking better..?
 * 6) **List** the **classification buckets** we are using for our task next week: For your information, our task is to compare the waste that we throw away with the following class who monitored their lunch box waste for a week. Remember they discovered that every day, they threw away 17 drink cartons, 12 yoghurt tubs, 13 fruit cups, 16 empty cracker and dip packets and 26 chip packets, and over one week that totalled 84 waste items PER DAY, we multiplied this by 5 school days and the total of their NON-BIODEGRADABLE classroom waste was 420 pieces of waste that does not break down !!!!!!! Please make a prediction: do you think we will have MORE or LESS NON-BIODEGRADABLE rubbish than the school we learned about.?