The project is designed to fit in with the curriculum, covering literary, numeracy and business skills alongside an opportunity to design systems that answer some of the most pressing challenges that face young people.
If you attend a Pembrokeshire or Cardiff school or are a teacher, share the following to ensure that your school is included in this exciting new project. If you are from another part of Wales and would like us to help make the case for a Zero Waste Schools project in your county, let us know via our contact form.
Destination Recycling is the name for the new collection system in your school.
Its aim is to change the way that we think about the recycling process.
How?
We will no longer be throwing away waste.
We will use the new system to send a valuable resource on to a destination where it can be processed into something new.
What?
We will start by collecting these valuable resources:
Paper and card from classrooms and repro-rooms.
Plastics from classrooms and outside areas.
Food leftovers from kitchens and dining areas.
Everything else from around the school and from home – anything we think could be used again!
Where?
Your school will soon receive a container where we sort and store all of our resources, ready to be sent for recycling.
Once it is full, the materials will be sent to be re-made into something new. Paper and card, for example, can be made into toilet paper, egg cartons or cardboard boxes.
Why?
Humans are the only species on this planet that create waste. Every other creature benefits from a circular process, where the output from one system becomes a resource for another. This circulation of materials is continuous and infinite.
We can stop making waste by not creating it in the first place, using only materials that can rejoin the system. When you post a piece of used paper into the Destination Recycling postbox, you are maintaining its value by sending it to a place where it can be reused. It is time to re-learn how to do this with everything we use.
What do you think?
How can we improve Destination Recycling even more? Send us your thoughts and any other ideas you have to help us reuse valuable resources..
