Bridgend Food Recycling Mission
The Bridgend Food Recycling Mission is a free competition for primary school Key Stage 2 earthlings. Captain Busta, the waste-busting intergalactic space monkey, has landed in Bridgend County in a spaceship powered by banana peels and he needs your help!
Are you ready to help me on my quest to discover how Bridgend County’s recycled food waste is transformed into electricity?
How to join the mission
Once you have completed a lesson at school you are fully qualified to do some investigating work at home using Busta’s special ELECTROGENERATOR tool AND enter the competition. Just follow the steps below.
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Investigate
Working with your parents investigate the ‘unavoidable’ food waste left over from the meals you eat at home over one weekend, logging them on the diary sheet provided by your teacher. Don’t forget to put your Busta sticker on your caddy!
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Calculate
Use the Electrogenerator to explore how much energy these food waste items can create when recycled
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Create
If you could invent your own machine that transforms food waste into energy, what would it look like? Enter the competition to design a ‘magic food recycling machine’ and submit it through the website by 28th February.
Participating schools...
- Heronsbridge School
- The Bridge Alternative Provision
- Abercerdin Primary School
- Archdeacon John Lewis Primary School
- Betws Primary School
- Blaengarw Primary School
- Brackla Primary School
- Bryncethin Primary School
- Brynmenyn Primary School
- Caerau Primary School
- Cefn Cribwr Primary School
- Coety Primary School
- Corneli Primary School
- Coychurch (Llangrallo) Primary School
- Croesty Primary School
- Cwmfelin Primary School
- Ffaldau Primary School
- Garth Primary School
- Llangewydd Junior School
- Maes yr Haul Primary School
- Mynydd Cynffig Primary School
- Nantyffyllon Primary School
- Nantymoel Primary School
- Newton Primary School
- Oldcastle Primary School
- Pencoed Primary School
- Penybont Primary School
- Penyfai C. in W. Primary School
- Pîl Primary School
- St Mary’s & St Patrick’s Primary Catholic School
- St Mary’s R.C. (Bridgend) Primary School
- St Roberts R.C. Primary School
- Tondu Primary School
- Tremains Primary School
- Tynyrheol Primary School
- Ysgol Bryn Castell
- Ysgol Gymraeg Bro Ogwr
- Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Cwm Garw
- Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Cynwyd Sant
- Ysgol Y Ferch O’r Sger Corneli