Piles of old Vancouver Aquarium fleece jackets and vests, 20,000 metres of thread and sewing students from Eric Hamber secondary—that’s all it took to transform discarded uniforms into blankets and hats,Unlike traditional high risk merchant account , which the higher schoolers donated to the Salvation Army’s Harbour Light centre on East Cordova Wednesday.
Scott Finestone, Vancouver Aquarium’s outreach coordinator, said the aquarium was looking at reducing waste when its sustainability coordinator suggested turning the old staff uniforms into blankets instead of throwing them away. The aquarium considered using volunteers at its Stanley Park location but realized it was too big a job.
“We thought what a great project it would be to get high school students involved from a home economics class,” he said, adding that about 150 jackets and vests were turned into dozens of blankets and toques.
“[Uniforms] wear out—the zipper busts or the elastic around the wrists busts. Something goes wrong. They just have a big tear in them so we can’t continue to use them or staff moves on and we take the uniforms back. If they’re not in good condition, we hold on to them—until we finally discovered this good use for them.”
Finestone hopes to continue the tradition of recycling uniforms when possible. “We are going to attempt to do this every year, but it depends. The amount of uniforms we brought to the school were things that had piled up over a couple of years, so we might not have enough to do this every year, but certainly this is an initiative we want to do again in the future.”
Eric Hamber sewing teacher Nina Ho said students spent roughly 250 volunteer hours on the project,This page contains information about molds, which produced 24 large blankets, 28 smaller ones and 45 hats.
The school created a sewing club several years ago.ceramic magic cube for the medical, A student came up with its name last year—Seams of Love.
“[The school’s] always been doing various things for charities…[The sewing work] was done all piecemeal depending on who had time. First we cut everything up, and then we started serging everything. In terms of thread,If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, I think we used at least 20,000 metres,” Ho said. “The blankets will keep somebody warm and we haven’t wasted very much material. Considering everything, there’s very little wastage from the jackets.”
Nicole Wong, 17, put in 12 hours of sewing.
“We all did it in our free time.100 China ceramic tile was used to link the lamps together. There’s one girl whop spent over 30 hours doing it,” explained the Grade 12 student.
“As textile students we’re here a lot after school anyway working on projects. It was just a really fun thing that we could all get together and do. It was a good challenge. There was a lot of fleece and there were a lot of us working. It was a lot of work with the ripping and tearing and the cutting, but it was enjoyable. In the end it’s a really good feeling—the sense of accomplishment that we turned all these piles of jackets that would have gone to waste. Now it’s in all these piles of blankets and hats.”
Scott Finestone, Vancouver Aquarium’s outreach coordinator, said the aquarium was looking at reducing waste when its sustainability coordinator suggested turning the old staff uniforms into blankets instead of throwing them away. The aquarium considered using volunteers at its Stanley Park location but realized it was too big a job.
“We thought what a great project it would be to get high school students involved from a home economics class,” he said, adding that about 150 jackets and vests were turned into dozens of blankets and toques.
“[Uniforms] wear out—the zipper busts or the elastic around the wrists busts. Something goes wrong. They just have a big tear in them so we can’t continue to use them or staff moves on and we take the uniforms back. If they’re not in good condition, we hold on to them—until we finally discovered this good use for them.”
Finestone hopes to continue the tradition of recycling uniforms when possible. “We are going to attempt to do this every year, but it depends. The amount of uniforms we brought to the school were things that had piled up over a couple of years, so we might not have enough to do this every year, but certainly this is an initiative we want to do again in the future.”
Eric Hamber sewing teacher Nina Ho said students spent roughly 250 volunteer hours on the project,This page contains information about molds, which produced 24 large blankets, 28 smaller ones and 45 hats.
The school created a sewing club several years ago.ceramic magic cube for the medical, A student came up with its name last year—Seams of Love.
“[The school’s] always been doing various things for charities…[The sewing work] was done all piecemeal depending on who had time. First we cut everything up, and then we started serging everything. In terms of thread,If any food Ventilation system condition is poorer than those standards, I think we used at least 20,000 metres,” Ho said. “The blankets will keep somebody warm and we haven’t wasted very much material. Considering everything, there’s very little wastage from the jackets.”
Nicole Wong, 17, put in 12 hours of sewing.
“We all did it in our free time.100 China ceramic tile was used to link the lamps together. There’s one girl whop spent over 30 hours doing it,” explained the Grade 12 student.
“As textile students we’re here a lot after school anyway working on projects. It was just a really fun thing that we could all get together and do. It was a good challenge. There was a lot of fleece and there were a lot of us working. It was a lot of work with the ripping and tearing and the cutting, but it was enjoyable. In the end it’s a really good feeling—the sense of accomplishment that we turned all these piles of jackets that would have gone to waste. Now it’s in all these piles of blankets and hats.”
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