WRMS Celebrates Earth Day

W Ross Macdonald School Earth Day 2013 

Earth Day Canada Logo

This is a special thank you to everyone that participated in our second Earth Day Celebration.   Once again, we had fantastic weather for our event.  Many staff and students also wore clothing that was brown or green to celebrate the day.

There were events and activities planned throughout the day.  Namely, an assembly and campus clean-up challenge were the school was able to collect 45 Kilograms of garbage and recyclables from our school grounds.  Wow!  That’s about 100 pounds, or about the weight of 10 braillers!

In the afternoon most of the classes planted a tree on the school grounds….in total 30 white spruce trees were planted in our naturalized area!  That brings our current total of trees planted to 42 to date!

Students planting trees

Calvin addresses the students in the courtyard

We also had our first annual “freecycling toy drive”.  Students and staff were encouraged to bring in 3 lightly used toys that they no longer need.   The idea was that they bring three toys…pick a new one to take home…and the others would be donated to the “wish closet program” that helps kids in need in our local community.  In total 5 large bags of toys were collected for the program!  Awesome!

See the link to the article in the Brantford Expositor for information on the “Wish Closet Program”

And here are some other noteworthy recycling achievements to inspire you to recycle more!

*Hundreds of tons of paper and cardboard recycled

*200 pounds of batteries recycled

*200 pounds of copper wire recycled

*4000 pounds of electronics recycled

*Several hundred plastic bags were reused and/or recycled

*Planted 32 trees on campus to date

*Recycled 4 boxes of light bulbs

*Recycled thousands of aluminum cans and collected tabs for charity

*Annual Earth Day Celebrations with a campus clean-up challenge

*Created several e-newsletters sent out on Energy Conservation in weekly school blurb

*Involved with “The Wish Closet Program” providing kids in need clothing and toys


And now some Earth Day slogans to live by…try saying some of these 5 times fast!  

“We may all be different by the earth is what we ALL have in common”

“May the forest be with you!”

“Live everyday like earth day.”

“Look after the earth, it’s the only one we have.”

“Think green, go green, live green.”

“Join the race to make the world a better place.”

“Protect our earth today for our children’s tomorrow.”

“A good planet is hard to find.”

Check out the Earth Day Canada Website to Find out More!

A special thanks to all the staff and students for all their efforts not only on Earth Day but throughout the year in making the WRMS Recycling Initiative such a success since it began in 2011.  Keep up the Good Work!

Sincerely,

“The 2013 WRMS Recyclers”