COMMON BASE LEWIS, MCCHORD Wash-.-on Earth-friendly movement afoot child Development centers to develop a common Base Lewis, McChord.
The sustainability of the organisation partnering expert group minutes with a simple CDCs to deliver message: reduce, reuse, Recycle Bin.
Earlier this month, approximately 60 in the middle and high school aged students from outside the Main Teen Lewis learned not only the concept of environmental benefits criteria.
Miriam Easley, JBLM sustainability field work, the Coordinator, and one of the experts in order to reduce the risk of living "is one of the best things you can do," said. "If you plan to view the three R's ... reduce and reuse is probably the best two. "
Easley told energetic teen crowd gathered, I do a lot of harmful environmental degradation in the region, in the first place, too much on the basis of the production.
He then applied to the growing problem of the world's oceans.
"Is to all consulted the Great Pacific Garbage patch-this giant mass of trash?"Easley requested.
Most students shook their heads to indicate they were.
Easley showed them the video, which is dealt with by the continent's businesses, "thin plastic soup" swirling about, ocean gyres.
Consists of flotsam, ocean debris and spots-sized plastic particles, this "soup" consumed fish and other marine life.In the end, people consume pollutants, when they eat fish tuna or mahi mahi-.
(A) the chemical Bisphenol a (BPA) or BPA, is a key ingredient in plastics and vulnerability has been found in fish and most people bodies. According to some researchers of the video, see what is floating in the oceans and what finally ends in the human body.
Video to proposed cutting back to petroleum-based products such as plastic bags, work equipment and in bottles, which finally is designed to be thrown away, and instead embrace products that may be used, such as canvas shopping bags and stainless steel water bottles.
Solidify concepts learned from video, Easley was teenagers "trash" to supervise, tea area garbage.
"We're going to Grab some trash cans," he said, "and through them and see what could have been recycled."
Loud chorus "Ewww!", although several teenagers latex gloves donned and volunteered to dig through the Recycle Bin.
Stephanie MacKenn, 12, was found in a half-full Coke plastic bottle.Want to not throw away MacKenn run for the nearest sink the bottle and the liquid must be destroyed.He then rinsed out of the bottle and is placed in the recycling container.
Brandi Wagner DPW solid waste program technician and Easley's education partner countries asked "what do you think about recycling?".
"It is a better world", said MacKenn.
Emily Pluedeman, tea area Assistant Manager, was happy to share his expertise in the field of sustainable development team of students.
"It was nice to bring them (to show) with video effects," said Pluedeman: "also dig through garbage and ask ()," Hey, you have you throwing milk cartons from? you can route them, and helps the environment as a whole, in the long term."
"Teens are" Pluedeman said, "gross so picking list through garbage, was the highlight of the day such as-they loved".
Easley thanked for smoking garbage cans teenagers and promote their recycling at home too.
"We have six sustainable development goals of the common Base Lewis, McChord," he said. "And with a focus on waste our goal is zero net waste by the year 2025. This means, we want to not waste this installation by 2025. you only we got about 15 years (make) that. "
Sustainable development team has worked with youth work centers for several years and is trying to increase its efforts to reach more people.
"My goal is to give these children the information they need to make sustainable choices," said Easley. "Children Play a large part in creating a sustainable future for children Sometimes get questions we face the environment more than adults and if we don't Listen, we can learn from them. "
Ingrid Barrentine is the common Base photojournalist with Lewis-McChord's weekly newspaper, the North Guardian.
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