recycling at school

at my school we have a recycling bin in every classroom, we have a compost heap, a recycling comitee of students and loads of other stuff.

i was wondering if any other school did the same???

fellow footprinter

melissa x

We have a recycling box-thing in every classroom and at the end of every week, it is emptied into the large Green bin outside.

 I don't know the exact details of where it goes after that...

 We should do more for the planet at our school >.<

They always have the lights on when they don't need to.

thats lucky for you our school dosent realy do much theres recicling bins yea but theres not much els they dont realy do much to help its pritty sad realy i just wished they do more !! xox

~x~jess~x~

well at school we have a new student scheme what alows us to put foward what we think what will make my school better so i have now introducted the necycling system and in the past week or so they have spent out on recycling bags what get emptyied mostly every day...

is there any other ways of making a school enviroment friendly ?   if so please post

sam x

Your school is very lucky! At my old school we were like that but now ive gone into secondry school there a bit slow .We do have recycling but not any any othe stuff. Your school is paradise lol!!!! ha ha!!!

i think schools should have paper recycling boxes in every classrooms...and also in the kitchens they should recycle all the packaging that they get from all the food, such as the tins and cardboard boxes.

So we need to get Recycling bins into schools maybe some jazzy looking ones to make the idea more attractive?

Hi,

Just seen this post and just had to reply.

Right at Wildern School we have a group,which I am lucky to be apart of, which meets regularly every fortnight to discuss environmental issues in the school. We also have a school council which I am a part of also which adds ideas to this. Recently we have introduced the idea of implementing recycling into our school and our main objective is to half the amount of waste which goes out through the normal rubbish bins. We are also, like said above, putting boxes for recycling paper into every classroom which are being supplied by our local council who provide recycling.

I am relieved to hear that other schools in the country do this aswell.

Tom

 Thats fantastic!

I am very interested in hearing how the scheme gets on - well done you for taking an active role in your own school environment. 

i think my school has no recycling system, but i could ask one of the staff and they could report back to the head. i hope our school has a recycling system in a few years time.

DO IT! Talk to your teachers or even speak direct to your head teacher.

They need to recycle NOW not in a couple of years. There are other VIPs on Footprint Friends who have also implemented a recycling system at their school.

Talk to your teachers, show them this site and get them involved. They can contact us at feet@footprintfriends.com if they have any questions or want to run a foot session like you attended at Stevenage.

Good on you - love to see your amazing amount of posts! Fantastic!

Recycling in every class room wow my school has boxes for recycling paper but it would be good to have them on the school grounds

whoops... sorry... i didn't mean to say that...

Our school is pretty slow as well. :/

We use so much paper at our school for stupid little things like newsletters. They have a school website; why not put it on there? It saves paper, which saves trees, which overall helps our environment!

I 100% agree. I think that all notices should go onto school websites - this would help so much because Newsletters get lost at the bottom of school bags and are out of date by the time they surface anyway.