the happy bin

Happy bin  (cartoon)

Caehopkin C.P. School


Weekly progress


Caehopkin C.P. School waste reduction  progress chart

Below: Mrs Clancy, our parent representative came to look at our Happy Bin Website. She was proud of our efforts:

Ysgol Caehopkin pupils visited by Mrs Clancy, our parent representative come to look at this Happy Bin Website

Below: Here we are washing out our Tetrapak Milk Cartons. We reused them in our artwork:

Ysgol Caehopkin pupils washing out Tetrapak Milk Cartons

Ysgol Caehopkin pupils artwork made with Tetrapak Milk Cartonse

Ysgol Caehopkin pupils artwork made with Tetrapak Milk Cartons

Ysgol Caehopkin pupils artwork made with Tetrapak Milk Cartons

Below: Here we are celebrating the news that we hold the Happiest Bin Record:

Ysgol Caehopkin pupils celebrating the news that we hold the Happiest Bin Record

Below: This is what we think about drink cartons that we can't recycle!

Ysgol Caehopkin pupils protesting against Tetrapak because you can't recycle the cartons!

Below: Here we are sorting out the Happy Bin quiz. We're looking at the pollution in the life story of a crisp packet!

Ysgol Caehopkin pupils' poem

By Catrin Norton Year 5:


Before we broke up for the Easter holidays Miss did a Happy Bin Project lesson with us, we had to design a banner on landfill, here are some pictures of two of our favourite banners. Year three and four also wrote some poems then they picked the best lines and made one big one.

Ysgol Caehopkin pupils' poem
Ysgol Caehopkin pupils' poem

Ysgol Caehopkin pupils' poem
One by one
One by one
Recycling
Is lots of fun

Two by two
Two by two.
Recycling saves the
World it's true.

Three by three
Three by three
Rubbish is
Floating on the sea.

Four by four
Four by four
Rubbish is
Floating on the shore.

Five by five
Five by five
Recycling
Will save lives.

Six by six
Six by six
Glass and plastic
They don't mix.

Seven by seven
Seven by seven
Lets all plant a
Tree of heaven.

Eight by eight
Eight by eight
Recycling is never
Too late.

Nine by nine
Nine by nine
The recycling is
Going fine.

Ten by ten
Ten by ten
Our hope is the rubbish men
Never come again.


Ysgol Caehopkin pupils composting

Above: Our compost bin is now up and running and is a great success. Here is a photo of three happy "composters".



Ysgol Caehopkin pupils with their new compost bin

Above: Ysgol Caehopkin pupils with their new compost bin. Below: with Vagabondi puppets.

Ysgol Caehopkin pupils with 
Vagabondi Puppets at the Happy Bin roadshow

Ysgol Caehopkin pupils with 
Vagabondi Puppets at the Happy Bin roadshow



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Sbwriel Muriel of Vagabondi Puppets' Happy  Bin project

Key to explain
how the bin feels:
Sickest bin ever*: lilac square, key for colour of sickest ever bin in graph
Feeling better: green square, key for colour of well bin in graph
Feeling worse: red square, key for colour of unwell bin in graph
Happiest bin ever**: yellow square, key for colour of target to aim for in graph

*At the beginning of
previous projects three
schools were wasting
more than 0.800Kg
per pupil per week.
They eliminated most
of their waste by
the end of the
project.


The lowest waste
per pupil per week
is currently Caehopkin School
at 0.061Kg.


Vagabondi Puppets at Ysgol Caehopkin with the Happy Bin roadshow