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Green at School
Used Cardboard Boxes
Cereal boxes, cracker boxes, shoe boxes, delivery or shipping boxes and more. That sure is a whole lot of boxes! We might not notice it but after the contents of these boxes are taken out or used up, they usually are left sitting in the corners of our house or it goes directly to the trash bin. There is an overwhelming amount of cardboard box production. Considering the environmental impacts of paper production and how much damage it has caused to our planet. Paper manufacturers have been a major source of the accumulation of toxic chemicals. These chemicals are used in paper making. There is mass energy and water consumption for producing paper using up a huge amount of water and electricity. It also has contributed to air pollution, production of solid waste materials and has done much damage to our forests. Deforestation happens because for years the paper industry has depended upon paper pulp from forests endangering the ecological balance. Let’s take into consideration some facts about cardboard boxes: First, over 90% of products in the United States are shipped using cardboard boxes and 70% is recovered for recycling. This type of packaging allows fewer resources by doing away with any ...- Bookmark :
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Going Green - Arts and Crafts Report
Searching around your home can lead you to discover many things you can convert into crafts. Reusing items which you may otherwise discard can also be acceptable to the environment. Things like buttons, cans, magazines, shoe boxes, tissue boxes, and cereal boxes can be utilized in making worthwhile projects of arts and crafts. A good example of a recycled project would be converting a cereal box into a file or magazine clipper perhaps. You need to first cut off the top portion of the box, and then cutting off the narrow side of the cereal box to simulate a file or folder holder. You should cut about 4 to 5 inches down from below the box. After you have simulated the shape of a magazine clipper, you can then either decorate it or paint it to enhance its appearance. You can paste art paper or beautiful stickers all around it, and with the finished product, you can organize your magazines, files, and important papers in it. The humble looking tissue box, when it gets empty already, can be turned into a sort of small plastic bag container. You can first decorate it as you would like, then enlarge the hole a little ...- Bookmark :
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Kids Crafts Can and Should Be Eco Friendly
Now is the time to install the train of thought in your kids that working to save the environment is important. If you wait too long, this is an idea that they might not catch onto and that would be a very sad thing indeed. Our landfills already have enough garbage in them. It is a sad thing to because only about ten percent of what is there is actual garbage. Everything else could have been recycled. The best way to make sure that your kids are getting some hands-in experience with creating an eco friendly world is to make crafts with them that recycle things. You can also make use of natural items, recycled items or reused items. Crafting with the kids is now not only fun, but also it is an educational experience as well. An example of a fun craft would be beanbags. Take some old shirts, jeans, blankets, or maybe old cloth napkins and cut them into four-inch squares. Just as you would for a pillow, sew three sides together, fill with beans, and sew it shut. If you want to get more creative with the beanbags, you can use stencils and fabric paint to paint on shapes, ...- Bookmark :
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Eco-Friendly Munchgear Soup to Nuts Lunch Kit
Unless you are able to send your kid to a school that has a farm to school program and that serves lunches that are organic, more than likely you are packing your kid's lunches each day. There are many different lunch box systems out there, but many parents just throw together random things and put them together on a hurried day. If you are looking for a great kit to use for kids, you'll find that Munchgear Soup to Nuts Kit is a great option that you can use for your kids when they take their lunch to school.
You'll find that this special Munchgear Soup to Nuts Kit happens to be made by the company Citizenpip and it is a kit that has everything all in one that is better than most of the other lunchbox systems that are out there today. Here is a look at what all is included in this kit.
Within the kit, you'll find that there is a lunch bag that is insulated. It has a nametag on it as well as a carabiner that can be attached to any backpack ...
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Help Your School Go Green
Nowadays, everybody must do their share of protecting and conserving Mother Nature, most especially school children of all ages. After all, the Earth is your greatest inheritance and, as such, you have a great responsibility and an even greater right to protect it. Plus, there is also the matter of schools being one of the front liners for educating the present and future generations of environmental advocates. With that said, here are ways that you, elementary pupils and high school students, can help your school go green. After all, even students can teach their teachers a thing or two. Create Awareness The first step towards a greener school is to create an awareness of the urgent need for adopting eco-friendly measures in the school. To use an analogy from nature, you must sow an acorn, nurture it, and watch it grow to become a great oak. You may adopt the following steps in creating environmental awareness. Don't worry because these are little steps that can achieve big things through your persistence, passion and patience. First, you can gather your friends to form an eco-friendly group. In most instances, you don't need school permission so you don't need to worry about organizational details like by-laws and ...- Bookmark :
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