Friday 28 October 2016

UPDATE: The Plastic Bottle Competition

Thank you to all those who participated in this competition. You have helped us in a greater way. We have had a successful collection, a total of 1966 bottles! This is great for us because we can now begin the construction process and put these non-recyclable bottles to good use.

The winners:

Congratulations to Auaha 2 for coming third place, by collecting 221 bottles! You have won the third place prize of $50!

Congratulations to Tirohanga 4 for being the first runners up, by collection 244 bottles! You have won the second place prize of $100!

A HUGE congratulations to Kaitoro 3 for winning the competition by collecting a huge 533 bottles! You have truly earned your prize of $150!


Once again thank you to all those who participated in this competition, you have really helped us a lot for collecting plastic bottles for us to create a green house to benefit out community. By collecting bottles, you have not only helped us, but have had a better impact n the community. We collected 1966 bottles, that is 1966 less bottles being thrown in the dump, but most importantly, there are now 1966 less plastic bottles that could potentially harm the environment. All thanks to everyone that participated.

This is the full list of the bottles collected by each tutor:


Tutor NameNumber of Bottles
Au 111
Au 2221
Au 39
Au 41
Au 5156
Au 62
Au 739
Au 84
Au 92
Au 1024
Auaha Total469
Kr 11
Kr 26
Kr 3533
Kr 48
Kr 50
Kr 6149
Kr 72
Kr 80
Kr 9136
Kr 100
Kaitoro Total835
Trh 129
Trh 23
Trh 31
Trh 4244
Trh 555
Trh 621
Trh 787
Trh 811
Trh 91
Trh 103
Tirohanga Total455
Wh 145
Wh 218
Wh 314
Wh 476
Wh 50
Wh 64
Wh 77
Wh 8 38
Wh 92
Wh 102
Wh 131
Whainga Total207
Kt 10
Kt 20
Kt 30
Kt 40
Kt 50
Kt 60
Kt 70
Kt 80
Kt 90
Kt 100
Kaitataki TOTAL0
School Total1966

Thank you once again to those who participated.

Sincerely 
The For the Future Group 

Sunday 23 October 2016

Our meet with Minister Joyce



On Friday the 16th of September, the For the Future group met up with Steven Joyce, Minister for Tertiary Studies.

We met in the Alfriston College staffroom. This is where we presented our presentation to him.

We shared what our inspiration was for us to do this project, which was the large amount of plastic and waste human produce, and since it is not take care of properly it ends up in our oceans, which can harm marine life. We also informed him about the 'The Great Pacific Garbage Patch' and how it has formed.




We also explained why we chose plastic as the material we were going to use.
We explained the purpose of our project and how it will benefit us and the community.

We were thrilled to meet with Minister Joyce, to share our view with him and help spread the awareness against the amount of waste in the world and the damage it is causing.


Did you know?
Auckland produces enough waste to fill up 100 metres x 70 metres x 20 metres rugby field EACH WEEK!
Image result for rugby field full of rubbish
This is what cannot be recycled, this is the amount produced by Auckland alone every week. Imagine the amount produced worldwide.