Waitakere Refuse Station Trip

Today we visited the Refuse Station in Henderson with Rooms 1 & 3. We enjoyed a tour of the Refuse Station and seeing the different areas our household rubbish comes to.  We also learnt about recycling our rubbish at home.


Before heading off on a short walk of the station, we had to make sure we had our hard hat and reflective jacket on.  Sure can't miss us! 

On our tour we saw the 'claw digger' that picks up all the wood that people no longer need.

 

 

 There are also special bins here just for grass clippings

 

 

This cool cow was made using recycling bins and milk bottles.

 

So much metal that will turned into new metal.  Have a close look and see what items you can spot.

Washing machines, fridges and freezers ready to be turned into metal

There are a lot of fantastic people in Waitakere City doing their part of recycling. This is the area where all our recycle plastic and glass comes to - ice cream containers, milk bottles, cans, glass bottles and jars.

The recycling is sorted and packaged into these bales and then shipped off to Thailand to be made into new items

This is about one day of our house hold rubbish that has been not recycled (even though some if it can be).  That is a lot of rubbish going into those grey bags!

 

 

 

We had loads of fun in the area where everything had been made from recycling!

street signs, crutches, golf sticks

 



pedal fast Stefan! some of your classmates are waiting to use some water





Rico, Anton and Oscar waiting for the water that Stefan has pedalled



Bada and Heavenly watering the garden with the water that Stefan pedalled

 



We got to see a worm farm.  Do you remember what tiger worms like to eat and not eat?

 



In the education room we learnt how to sort through out household waste into 'reusable, recyclable, paper, food scraps and waste.  We had a competition against Room 3.  Just quietly - our class won!

paper and cardboard

reusable and food scraps

recyable plastic, glass, cans and waste