The newly appointed school Envirogroup took part in a waste audit on Friday the 23rd May. This involved us collecting the schools entire production of rubbish for the day.
Following this we sorted it into categories. General waste, compostable paper, food scraps, recyclable paper, glass, plastics and metal. Once we sorted the rubbish we weighed it to see how much of each we had. This is what we found out.
In one day we produced:
35.5kgs Food Scraps
300 grams glass
3kg non recyclable plastic
800 grams card board
7.5 kgs of recyclable paper
1.2 kg compostable paper
200 grams metal/tins
2.6 kgs all other waste
As you can tell we have a few areas where we can really make some changes. Our envirogroup will be discussing ways we can change our waste management and hopefully reduce the amount of rubbish our school produces in return help reduce our carbon footprint, the damage we are causing to the environment and also save money on rubbish disposal!
The children hope start composting, better paper recycling and want to educate our families on alternative ways to package school lunches therefore creating rubbish free lunch boxes! watch this space!
Here are some photos from our waste audit:
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