Plastic Bin Liners

In room five we had to make a document persuading our principal to ban plastic bin liners from our school. To be successful we had to organise our ideas in paragraphs with an introduction that explains why you are writing (what the problem is) and a position statement (what you believe), three main paragraphs, a conclusion and start each paragraph with a topic sentence, use words like: firstly, secondly, finally, in my opinion, I believe, strongly, firmly, should, must and, if... then. I think I am going well at writing persuasive texts and I will know what to do next time when I write some persuasive writing.  I think I have included most of the things on the success criteria list. Here is my writing about plastic bin liners.

10th September 2018 Dear Mrs Wallace, I’ve got to inform you about the problem that is happening in our school which is that plastic bin liners are being used too much at Awahono School. We are using two thousand each year at our school! I strongly believe that plastic bin liners must be removed from our school. Do we really need them at Awahono School? Here are my three good reasons about why plastic bin liners should be not be allowed and taken away from our school. First of all, we only put dry materials in our classroom bins. For example, our class only puts paper and pencil sharpenings in our bin and those things do not produce any liquid after a few days in the plastic bin liner. We already have a a bin that carries scraps for our chickens. Sometimes people just put a plastic wrapper in the classroom bin which is perfectly alright because they do not let off any odour or liquid out. I firmly believe that our school must not use plastic bin liners because we only put dry materials in them. Secondly, the plastic bin liners are polluting the Earth. If our school makes a little change we are not going to pollute the Earth and the sea animals will not be surrounded by plastic as much as they are right now. Our plastic bin liners only get used once a day and they all go to a landfill and are not recyclable. Our school must not use bin liners because they are polluting the Earth and if we keep going on like this lots of animals will die. Thirdly, our school can save money and buy important things if we don’t use plastic bin liners. We can buy better things like new sports gear, flash kapa haka costumes and a new sports shed window. If we keep buying plastic bin liners our school will be poor and we will have to find more money. We don’t want that, do we? If we don’t use plastic bin liners our school will not run out of extra vests and medical things. When the school uses plastic bin liners it is like when you lose something and can’t get it back and at the moment we are losing money and not getting it back. In conclusion, all of the classes mostly puts dry materials in the plastic bin liners, they are also polluting the Earth and I we are throwing away money too. I hope that you will consider banning plastic bin liners from our school. Yours sincerely, Sophie