Zero Waste

Last week Mrs Roberts from Zero Waste education came to Oueroa School in Waipukurau in New Zealand to teach us about composting. We decided the old compost needed a makeover. First of all we gathered all of the ingredients. We got horse poo, straw, saw dust, dead plants, paper or cardboard and vacuum dust. These are all browns or carbon wastes.

Then we got the greens or nitrogen wastes. We got food scraps and weeds then we put it into layers it went green brown green brown. I cut the branches on a tree down with the secateurs. It was hard work. After that I took photos. It was fun. I didn’t want to place anything down on the compost heap because I didn’t know what to do. The last layer was carpet.

Finally it was done. Then the bell rang. Ding ding! It was lunch time. Thank goodness. Yum yum, I was hungry.    

by H.