Winnona Park “Green Captains” Write Letter to the Community
Decatur Metro | May 21, 2011Who are the Winnona Park Elementary “Green Captains”? They are 16 third graders who “helped the school ‘Go Green’ throughout this [past school] year”! As a final project, they’ve written an open letter to Decatur Metro readers. Here it is in full. Great job Green Captains!
We are the Green Captains at Winnona Park Elementary in Ms. Sisler’s third grade class.
Do you know what goes in the recycling bin and what doesn’t? Styrofoam, plate glass, and certain numbers of plastics (according to the county) DON’T go in the recycling bin. [editors note: In the city of Decatur, almost all plastics can be recycled!] Newspapers, aluminum cans, plastic bottles, and cardboard DO go in the recycling bin.
How can you help the environment – by buying organic foods! Organic foods are better than conventional foods because they don’t use pesticides. Pesticides kill pests. But they also kill other animals besides pests such as birds. They also may harm humans. Conventional farmers plant GMO’s (genetically modified organisms/foods). They are so new, we don’t know if they are good. Organic farmers don’t use any of these.
How do you make compost? The first important thing you do to make a worm compost is to buy a worm apartment or bin and worms, or you can dig worms from the ground. Red wigglers make the best worms for composting. The next important thing you can do is fill your bin or apartment with soil. The last thing you can do is put any food scraps except orange peels, dry veggies, dairy or meat. Another idea is you could install more composting bins so that our community will compost more food scraps and yard waste like grass clippings and leaves.
Thank you for understanding our feelings for making the world go green.
Ms. Sisler’s third grade Green Captains
Latest from Decaturish
I love it that CSD 3rd graders are writing to Decatur Metro! That’s so Decatur! Maybe DM should eventually have a kid’s thread. One where cynical, sarcastic, snarky, and whiney posts by adults are not allowed!
Thank you for the tips, Green Captains. Your recycling guidelines are far clearer than the instructions that are published by DeKalb County.
You all are awesome… Very proud of how much you learned AND are willing to share to help educate our community! Fantastic, Green Captains!
Can the third graders make a few posters I can put up at work? Recycling bins sit right next to trash cans and yet every day I pull paper, aluminum cans and plastic bottles from the trash to put into the recycling.
Good idea. I do the same. I think people would pay much better attention to the Green Captains than they do to me!
Why not dry veggies?
I love this story how Ms. Sisler and her 3rd grade class are helping the world go green. Keep up the good work!