Waste

Topic of Waste management lasted from January to June 2023.

Every school has a legal duty to ensure an efficient school waste management system, aiming to reduce, reuse and recycle. Increasingly, schools are being viewed as role models for eco-friendly waste management and this somewhat daunting responsibility must be addressed appropriately by every school.

We can help your school to reduce, reuse and recycle. We can provide you with an efficient school waste management system, providing you with the peace of mind that your waste management is in the hands of professionals.

Schools produce tonnes of waste without even realizing it. It is safe, easy, and a great way to help the environment if you can implement an effective school waste management system.

Before launching a recycling scheme in our schools, we followed those steps:

• Establish an Eco Committee at school and create an upcycling club
• Implement Circular Economy in the curriculum
• Serve food on plates rather than in takeaway boxes.
• Go paperless by communicating with parents and carers via email.
• Create a school 'swap shop' where pupils and parents can trade unwanted items.
• Replace traditional blackboards with interactive screens.

All five schools have researched their waste management and compared results, exchanged good ideas and searched for solutions to reducing, reusing, and recycling waste and reducing environmental pollution caused by waste. They made the material for different subjects at school, primarily through project work.

Students from a Slovenian school made a survey and a couple of participants from each country answered the questions so we can gather information on how much and what rubbish we throw away daily in our households.

Students did this by weighing their family waste. They also tried to focus on reducing, reusing, recycling and saving energy and electricity.

The results of one week's family Waste Logbook are speaking for themselves, here is the link to the results.The students also learned about the hierarchy of waste. The best thing is to produce less waste by using and buying fewer things. The second best thing is to reuse things. Then comes recycling and then using waste as energy. The worst thing is that waste ends up in landfills.

So the lesson in this chapter is:

Think "do you really need it", don't throw away, reduce, reuse and recycle waste!