Plastic Bin Liners

In room five we were learning to write to persuade. We decided to write to our principal  about how many plastic bin liners we use a year and we tried to persuade her to ban plastic bin liners in our school. Our class had written a letter to the principal to persuade her to ban the plastic bin liners. We had to have an introduction then our three reasons why we should ban the plastic bin liners. My three good reasons were we only put dry food in them, we use 2000 a year also it will save money not to buy the bin liners  so then we can buy other things that we really need. My last reason why we should not use bin liners because it causes pollution when we throw them away. We also had to write a conclusion at the end of our letter. Our success criteria were to write out ideas in paragraphs, to write an introduction, a conclusion, to start each paragraph with a topic sentence and to use words like in my opinion, I believe and I firmly believe. In our writing we had to start the paragraph with firstly, secondly and lastly or thirdly.

10th September 2018


Dear Mrs Wallace,

In 2005 Collingwood was the first town to ban plastic bags. So why don’t we? I firmly believe that Awahono School should not have plastic bags for bin liners. If you don’t agree with me read my three good reasons why we should not use plastic bags as bin liners.

Firstly, we only use the bins in the class for dry things. Like paper, chip wrappers and glad wrap.The bins are made of metal so they don’t need bin liners to put dry food in. If what we put in the bins were wet food, it will go everywhere, but because it is dry, we do not need the bags. I believe that we should not use them for the dry food. 

Secondly, we use two thousand bin liners a year. In this school we have been using use two thousand bin liners a year because we use ten a day, fifty a week and five hundred a term. If we don’t use the bin liners for dry food we will be saving money and we can spend them on other things. Like new sports equipment and new kapa haka uniforms. 

Lastly, the plastic bags will pollute after they have been thrown away. At the end of the day the cleaners come and take the bin liners then put them into black bags which gets thrown away to the landfill. Then they will pollute and if animals go near there they will be badly harmed or die. Do you want animals to die?  

In my opinion I think that we should not use the bin liners for the dry food because they cause pollution and we are just wasting money on something that we don’t need. We will be saving the animals and we will be definitely making a difference. If we don’t  get rid of them will just be wasting the money on buying them so we will not be able to  buy new things that we will need and we may not need them now but we will need them sooner or later.


Yours sincerely,  



Hannah