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| Challenge Status: Active (Round ) |
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Competitions
Details of a new competition are coming soon.
Evidence Uploaded
The Items of Plastic that we are Tackling
We have focussed on 3 different plastic areas:
- plastic drinks / water bottles – as we found these made up a lot of our current usage. Each classroom now has recycling bags and posters so students know they can put their bottles in the recycling bag and not the bin
- crisp packet / sweet wrappers – as these were high on our litter pick. They are usually difficult to recycle but we collect them in the canteen and then teachers take the soft plastics to supermarket containers weekly
- pen recyling – again because we found out during our audit that we use a lot of pens, highlighters and whiteboard pens that all go in the bin at the moment. Each classroom now has a tin which is labelled with what can be put in them, and then staff will empty them into the box in the staff room when the tin is full. All of the pens we collect will be taken to Ryman stores where they take them to be recycled.
We are going to continue our work to really embedd these practices, and remind both staff and students to use all 3 of these different methods to make a difference to the amount of plastic that we are wasting.
Action Plans
After different year groups had looked at the results of the audit, we had our clear action plan of what we wanted to tackle. A student in Year 9 suggested that as Lent was coming up, we could use it as an opportunity to launch our new recycling scheme. Lent is a time for fasting, praying and giving, so we can give to our environment and school community by taking care of it.
1 – recycling bags in each classroom. We found that plastic water/soft drinks bottles were one of our highest used items from the audit but instead of just tackling the bottles, we decided that recycling bags which can also take paper, aluminium drinks cans and tin foil will make a really big difference to the waste we create. To get students using the bag we decided that a form competition across Lent would be a good idea. Each form group will bring their recycling bag to the hall where prefects will weigh them and log what has been collected, empty the bag and then it will be weighed again the week after. Across Lent, the form that collects the most recycling will win a prize.
2 – broken pen recycling. Our audit showed that we use lots of pens and whiteboard pens by students and staff and at the moment we bin them when they are empty or broken. We have found out that Ryman shops (there is one in Coventry and Leamington) have a pen recycling scheme run by Terracycle, so we can collect them in classrooms and then ask staff to take them to the shops.
3 – crisp packet recycling. This is because “food packaging” was one of the highest items from our litter pick and as many local supermarkets now do soft plastic recycling, different staff can easily take them to be recycled. We decided that the best location for this would be the canteen and then a group of students can collect them each week.
We are excited to get started though this period of Lent and beyond!
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Plastic Clever Challenge Status
| Challenge Status: Completed | Date joined: unknown | |||||||||||||||
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Plastic Clever Badges
| Challenge Status: Active (Round ) |
| Plastic Clever Badges Awarded |
| Not yet completed |
Competitions
Details of a new competition are coming soon.
Evidence Uploaded
The Items of Plastic that we are Tackling
We have focussed on 3 different plastic areas:
- plastic drinks / water bottles – as we found these made up a lot of our current usage. Each classroom now has recycling bags and posters so students know they can put their bottles in the recycling bag and not the bin
- crisp packet / sweet wrappers – as these were high on our litter pick. They are usually difficult to recycle but we collect them in the canteen and then teachers take the soft plastics to supermarket containers weekly
- pen recyling – again because we found out during our audit that we use a lot of pens, highlighters and whiteboard pens that all go in the bin at the moment. Each classroom now has a tin which is labelled with what can be put in them, and then staff will empty them into the box in the staff room when the tin is full. All of the pens we collect will be taken to Ryman stores where they take them to be recycled.
We are going to continue our work to really embedd these practices, and remind both staff and students to use all 3 of these different methods to make a difference to the amount of plastic that we are wasting.
Action Plans
After different year groups had looked at the results of the audit, we had our clear action plan of what we wanted to tackle. A student in Year 9 suggested that as Lent was coming up, we could use it as an opportunity to launch our new recycling scheme. Lent is a time for fasting, praying and giving, so we can give to our environment and school community by taking care of it.
1 – recycling bags in each classroom. We found that plastic water/soft drinks bottles were one of our highest used items from the audit but instead of just tackling the bottles, we decided that recycling bags which can also take paper, aluminium drinks cans and tin foil will make a really big difference to the waste we create. To get students using the bag we decided that a form competition across Lent would be a good idea. Each form group will bring their recycling bag to the hall where prefects will weigh them and log what has been collected, empty the bag and then it will be weighed again the week after. Across Lent, the form that collects the most recycling will win a prize.
2 – broken pen recycling. Our audit showed that we use lots of pens and whiteboard pens by students and staff and at the moment we bin them when they are empty or broken. We have found out that Ryman shops (there is one in Coventry and Leamington) have a pen recycling scheme run by Terracycle, so we can collect them in classrooms and then ask staff to take them to the shops.
3 – crisp packet recycling. This is because “food packaging” was one of the highest items from our litter pick and as many local supermarkets now do soft plastic recycling, different staff can easily take them to be recycled. We decided that the best location for this would be the canteen and then a group of students can collect them each week.
We are excited to get started though this period of Lent and beyond!