Eco Council in Juniors at MIS is called “Eco Green Living”, we have had a focus on recycling, upcycling, reducing food waste and gardening. 

Our first project was to make sure that every classroom had a recycle bin. We repurposed large boxes, turned them inside out, painted and labelled them. These boxes can be seen all over MIS from the 7th and 8th floor offices to the reception desk on the 1st floor. 

Our second project was to make pencil pots out of newspaper. 

Our final project in the first term was recycled paper making – we collected paper from the recycle bins in the Juniors classrooms, sorted it into useable and unusable then ripped it up or shredded it into tiny pieces.

These pieces were left to soak in water for a week and then we used a blender to turn it to mush.

After that we mixed the mush with some coloured water to make an emulsion. We swished up the emulsion and, using a mold and deckle, we started to make paper.

If took a few tries to figure out the best balance for the emulsion but in the end, we got it right.

Come see some of our handywork at the Eco Council stall at the winter fair. 

Green Living CCA – ManYan Jaylene – Y3; Rock Kyran CiciL Suki – Y4; Pascal Amy Alice Isabella Joe Peter- Y5; Sunny Alisa – Y6 

In the second term we focused on reducing Food Waste at MIS.

We made posters and presented our findings and information at Juniors’ assembly.

In the final term we have been in the garden – growing lemongrass and flowers and we have set up our sunflower-growing competition.

In Seniors the first project was preparing to sell our MIS Eco canvas bags and water bottles at the Winter fair.

And most recently we have been working on the problem of clothing waste.

During our research, we found that the clothing industry has a very serious impact on the environment. So, we chose to hold this second-hand clothing donation event as a Clan event.

To promote this event, Eco Council made a video for assembly, designed posters wrote letters to parents and posted on Class Dojo as well as promoting the collection by word of mouth.

We put boxes of different Clans beside the gate and registration to collect clothes. Starting on 7th March afternoon, the collection was manned by Eco Council all evening and has been continuing all week, with donations flooding in from boarding students and day pupils.

During Eco CCA the Eco Council sorted the clothes into 3 piles – children’s clothes, adult clothes and clothes for fabric recycling. And packed them into boxes then donated to the organization called Flying Ant clothing recycling. In the end, we collected over 300 kg of old clothes and completed the donation.

Over 300kg of clothes!!!

With 42kg of CO2 stopped from entering our environment!

在小学阶段，曼校生态理事会被称作“生态绿色生活小组”，我们专注于回收、循环利用及减少食物的浪费，并通过亲自动手的园艺劳作支持生态环保工作。

我们在本学年的第一个项目是确保为每个教室、办公室提供一个可回收纸张的垃圾箱。“垃圾箱”的制作也非常简单，找来回收得来的大箱子、涂色、贴标签，就完成了。从七八楼的办公区到楼下的教学区到前台，整个曼校随处可见这些“垃圾箱”。

第二个项目，我们选择了用报纸做笔筒。

在第一学期期末的时候，我们做了再生纸——用“可回收垃圾箱”里收集来的废纸，把其中不再可以使用的纸张撕成小碎片。

把这些碎纸片在水中浸泡一周，然后我们用搅拌机把它搅成糊状。

之后，我们再把他们和一些有色水混合成糊状液体。我们把这些纸糊倒进磨具中定格。这边是我们的造纸过程。

孩子们尝试了几次去寻找合适的纸和水比例，最后终于成功了。

最终，这些手作纸张作品最终在曼校圣诞市集上售卖。

生态绿色生活小组 CCA – ManYan Jaylene – 三年级; Rock Kyran CiciL Suki – 四年级; Pascal Amy Alice Isabella Joe Peter- 五年级; Sunny Alisa – 六年级

我们做了很多此方面的努力。在第二学期，我们就把主题定位为“曼校光盘行动”。

我们做了很多海报，并且在小学集会上展示了我们做的宣传物料。

整个第三学期，我们都一直在花园里种植柠檬草和各类花草，甚至还举办了一场向日葵种植比赛。

曼校生态理事会在中学阶段做的首个活动，实际上是在圣诞市集上售卖曼校的生态环保袋和水壶，以倡导大家减少使用塑料。

但是，最近，我们主要在致力于解决衣物浪费的问题。

我们研究发现，服装行业对环境的影响非常大。所以，我们决定做二手衣物捐赠活动，并把这个活动当做是Clan之间的一次比赛。

为推广这个活动，生态理事会在集会上做了一段宣传视频、设计了专门的海报，并给家长写信、在Class Dojo上张贴活动，我们采用了诸多方式吸引大家参与其中。

我们为Clan准备了大回收箱，在大门口和前台处做衣物回收。活动受到了曼校社区的响应，无论是寄宿生还是走读生都有很多衣服如潮水般涌来，送到了各自的Clan。从3月7日下午开始，生态理事会便花费将近一周的时间整理衣物。

在 Eco CCA 期间，生态委员会将衣服分为 3 堆——儿童衣服、成人衣服和用于织物回收的衣服。并将它们装进盒子里，然后捐赠给了一个叫做“飞蚂蚁”的服装回收组织。最后，我们收集了300多公斤旧衣服，完成了捐赠。

超过300公斤的衣物！！！

本次旧衣回收预计减少42.8kg的碳排放！