Eco Ornaments!
By: Maddie, Kayla, Emily, Liam, and Madison
We are grade 12 students that all shared the same common interests: a love for christmas, and to bring awareness to our community of our ecological footprint. We accomplished this by selling recycled christmas ornaments to the public on our schools Arts Night in December. Throughout our journey we managed to collect 6 cans, 8 mason jars, 30 water bottles, used clothing, and 4 light bulbs to create our ornaments around our community and school. Despite not having any financial goal in mind as a group we are happy to announce that by selling our ornaments made out of recycled materials we made roughly $40!
From the beginning, our main goal was to bring awareness and also to reduce our ecological footprint by re-using materials that would have otherwise been hazardous to the environment if not recycled properly. As a group we wanted to do this in a light and fun way that caught people’s attention, and we believe that we achieved this by selling our ornaments and displaying our flyers around our school. We sold: mason jar snow globes, penguin/snowmen light bulb christmas tree ornaments, water bottle icicles, snowmen made out of cans, and penguins made out of water bottles and used clothing. All of our ornaments were under $5 and attached to each was an environmental fact for our buyer.
Now that our group project has come to an end and we have sold all of our eco ornaments we have to decided use the money that we raised to donate to an environmental charity along with our other classmates. Despite our group project finishing we hope that with the sales of our ornaments that we have inspired others within our high school and community to be more cautious of the environment and their ecological footprint.
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