Stephanie enjoyed preparing her very own re-usable container with trail mix today. A perfect snack for our trek down The Village Trail that leads to downtown. The campers waited patiently to enjoy their snack at Maritime Heritage Park after our tour of our city's main recycling center. Did you know that Northwest Recycling has been around for 100 years?
Marty shared with us how they recycle everything from wire to metal to cans, like you see stacked up here, to different kinds of paper. It was a very busy place with lots of recycling going on! The campers learned that it's better to re-use, boxes for example, than recycle.
We enjoyed seeing the bailing machine and the stacked up bails of mixed paper pictured here. One bail of mixed paper weighs as much as an average size car!
And this is where the bottles, cans and plastic get dumped and sorted.
On the way back from the recycling center we put all of our learning about waste and caring for the planet into action. We ended up picking up 3 lbs. of trash and 3 lbs. of items to be recycled. The whole Village Trail was litter free when we were done. It was nice for the campers to hear "thank you" from the people passing by. We all had a hard time believing that people would just throw trash on the ground. If you come across trash on the ground, just pick up the trash. It takes a village to keep our earth clean.
Everyone shared a goofy time together at Carl Lobe Park, after an nice picnic in the shade of the park's HUGE tree!
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Lovely way to explain recycling through the waste not want not theme.Children must not make the mistake of polluting the earth...they can live a better life then through a better created environment.
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