Letter To The Principal, About Plastic Bin Liners

In room five we have been doing persuasive writing to the principal about plastic bin liners in the classroom bins. We were learning to organise our ideas in paragraphs and use a topic sentence at the start of each paragraph. I have come up with three reasons to stop using plastic bin liners.

10th September 2018

Dear Mrs Wallace,

In our school we have plastic bin liners placed in the classroom rubbish bins when we don’t really need them. I strongly believe that we should stop using plastic bags in our bins. There are three good reasons to stop using plastic bags in our bins.

Firstly, every year we use up to 2000 plastic bin liners. We counted all the bins that have plastic bin liners in them. That is a lot of money and if we stopped using them we could save hundreds of dollars over time and buy sports equipment and lots of other things.

Secondly, mostly dry materials go into the bins. All the rubbish goes into big black sacks so why have all the rubbish in bin liners if it’s just going to go into a big sack? Only a few of the school’s bins have wet materials go into them (the staff room and the chook bin).

Thirdly, putting plastic bin liners in the rubbish bins causes pollution and kills sea life and land animals. If we stop using plastic bin liners we could save hundreds of animals lives. Not only that, but the resources used to make plastic bin liners such as oil can only be used once, so every plastic bag cannot be made into something brand new.

In conclusion, I think it is a waste of earth's resources to make plastic bags that can only be used once. Also pretty much dry materials go into the bins but some of the bins have wet materials like the chook bin so we only need two or three bins that need plastic bin liners. With the money we would have spare, we could buy more relevant things such as sports equipment and better projector equipment, plus we could save animals.

Yours sincerely

Blake