The Auckland Refuse Station Report

The waitakere transfer station is where we take our rubbish and where our rubbish is taken to be sorted and recycled.The transfer station is also where you take waste that is not suitable for kerbside collection. The public’s dangerous chemicals and explosives/etc. You could come and take unwanted paint from the toxic/explosives area. At the back of the station there is a classroom for teaching people how to recycle, how the refuse station works and how our rubbish is managed.

First, they pick up all the kerbside rubbish and drop it off to the Waitakere Transfer Station. Then, they sort the rubbish into different categories and crush the plastics/ (occasionally aluminum) into solid blocks for delivery to other countries so they can make new things out of it. Some things are melted, such as metal, sand and aluminum. Some leftovers that cannot be recycled are put into the landfill, which is a large hole in the ground where unusable objects are dumped into, which can be preserved for up to 3000 years. Some gets recycled or recovered and some is burned, but the majority is buried in landfills. Transfer Stations are also used for waste management purposes, such as the temporary storage, consolidation and transfer, or processing of waste material (sorting, treatment, or recycling).  People can collect free wood and paint, as a way of encouraging people to recycle and save the environment.

First, the rubbish is taken to the dump and is sorted into piles. There is a wood pile, a greens pile (leaves, grass and trees), a metal pile, a recyclable pile, a hazardous chemical pile, and a landfill pile!!! In one week, there is enough landfill rubbish from West Auckland to fill a whole rugby field! That is a lot of rubbish!  There are workers whose jobs are to sort the rubbish, to operate the machines and to operate the trucks. You can take wood and chemicals away. (you can take the chemicals on Tuesday and Wednesday between 1 and 3 pm) The metal that is useful is fixed and sold whereas the no longer useful metal is melted down and turned into other metals.

You can recycle by simply finding the recycle sign on the object and putting it into the recycling bin. For example you can put paper in to the recycling but you can’t put plastic packets into the recycling bin because it doesn’t have the recycling sign. Recycling can also be done by crushing metal into a block and then melting it into new metal. Crushing plastic to dust can also be recycling plastic and putting them into clothes that are being made which is called polyester. Melting useless glass can be used to make new fine glass. Sorting your rubbish can help with putting the correct things into the recycling bin.

Reading with Mr Maindonald

These days Mr Maindonald has been coming read to room 21 every afternoon. Mr Maindonald has been reading The boy who was afraid. The boy's name was Nafutu. Nafutu was scared of the ocean. But this was a bad thing because he lived on a Pacific island. Everybody made fun of him, except his only friend Youre.

He planned to set sail in the ocean and he was so afraid but also angry.

While he was sailing in the ocean a huge storm came upon him, Youre and Nafutu fell off their canoe. Luckily they were okay but he could not talk because he had no moisture in his mouth. He  was washed up on an island... and so that is all room 21 got up to. 

We are hoping to have a happy ending.

Written by Sasha and Prisha

31/3/2015

Zayde and Luke's opinions:
Luke's Opinion: This is a very interesting book to listen to, it is a good book and i wish i had it!
Zayde's Opinion: I love book's with theme's like people starting from scratch and making hut's and hunting animals. Very interesting! what on earth will happen next?!

WHat we think will happen next:
The next thing that will happen is Nafutu makes it on shore and slips on a rock and gets knocked unconscious, when he wakes up his calf gets torn by coral and wraps leaves around his cut.Nafutu walks up to a plato and eats a mango and his strength returns to his body.He makes a slay out of leaves and slides down the other side of the plato to reveal a huge forest. He discovers a huge sacrificial altar in the middle of the bush. He finds out that it's the cannabal's hideout spots a spear on the ledge of the altar and reaches out to grab it, but slips and knocks over several dozen bones that make a huge crash. Nafutu see's the nearby shrubs shaking so he runs for his life out of the forest, still with the spear gripped firmly in his palms.

What Room 21 think about the book so far:

It is awesome because it is fun and a survival story. Mr Maindonald  uses good expression when he is reading which makes the story more exciting.- Sophie

It's adventurous. He learns that he is strong and that he can do many things. - Cathy

It is very entertaining - Max

It is very epic and exciting because random things keep on happening to him but he keeps on finding new ways to help him get home. - Caitlin

It is fun listening to him survive and learn how to make a boat to go home in. - Jina

 Every minute I am left guessing what will happen next - Sasha

  The book is educational- Monika

 It is awesomely awesome because he overcomes his fear of the water...which he is surrounded by  - Andrew

Mr Maindonald always stops the book at the parts where it starts to get mysterious. - Julian

I hope that the cannibals think he is good and leave him alone. - Prisha

It is interesting how he turns from Mafutu the boy who was afraid to Brave Heart.

Assembly

On the 20th of February 2015, Room 21 ran the with Room 4 and 3. Room 21 did a play from a school journal it was called the Red Riding Hood Rap (Roy played the tone bars). we practiced and practiced until we were ready for the big day....... ASSEMBLY DAY!!!!!!!
exiting but there were limits. It was very nervous for everyone(a couple of us almost threw up!!!!) but everything turned out ok. Room 4 sang a song and Room 3 did some art.a man from from marzipan came to inform us about his new drama classes.3 kids came on stage to demonstrate what the marzipan drama classes was all about. Mrs Hogan showed us a quick slideshow about the caterpillars and that they ate all the leaves and that they did not have a home.At the start we all had butterflies in our stomach but especially Emma and I.Of course at the end of the day it was overwhelming how fun it was.(for most of us).






By Emma Winter and Ricky Fernandez