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Royal School Cavan Goes For Green!

The Royal School Cavan has decided to take the challenge the school into three sections – waste, recycle and organic.
and go the colour of their uniform – GREEN (well on the girls The waste and recycling were weighed and totalled.
part anyways). We’ve created a green school committee Also, in November of 2011 we got recycling bins specifically
consisting of two teachers, Ms Burns and Ms McElwaine and for plastic bottles and aluminium cans and when they were
25 pupils to help the school achieve its first green flag.
emptied last Wednesday, we were glad to see that they had
Before this the school was pretty much a litter-free zone been put to good use.
with bins across the area and in all the classrooms. But the We will continue to monitor what’s going into our bins
committee has started the race for their first green flag most throughout the year and hopefully, The Royal School Cavan
importantly to highlight the importance of sorting out their will be successful in its race for its first Green Flag.
rubbish. On Wednesday the 18th of January, myself and five
other 5th years along with twelve 1st years got our hands By: Sarah Adesanya
dirty (literally) and sorted out all the bins in the main areas of

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