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BIN THERE, DONE THAT !
A team of 6, 16-year-old girls from Year 11 at Swallownests’ Aston Comprehensive are local recycling champions when they organised a ‘Recycling Week’ at the school recently. Not only by undertaking the green project, but encouraging friends and pupils to participate in, and subsequently gain financial support from the local Shopping Centre to help protect the schools’ environment through a cash donation. Kind hearted management at award wining and community based Crystal Peaks received a letter from Sarah Smallwood a pupil in the Business Studies Department wanting £300 to buy 6 additional bins to aid the school in cleaning up their act.
“The environment is our key asset and about 30% of the waste we generate consists of paper and cardboard. It is estimated that the average person uses the equivalent of 6 trees each year. So we wanted to do our bit in conserving our earth’s valuable resources and reduce waste to landfill” said Jess Scott, 16. “Throughout the project we have researched and studied recycling. We have spoken passionately at several assemblies about our litter project to the whole school. We then organised a cardboard box for each classroom to put their waste paper in, so at the end of the week it will all be collected up and recycled. We have noticed a big difference and a substantial reduction with litter in school already and its’ still early days yet. We’ve carried out surveys and questionnaires and asks both students and staff alike where they thought the main litter problem was coming from, from these sources we enlisted the help of Crystal Peaks Shopping Centre to help us buy more bins to place in these hot spots and reduce the litter problem within our school.”
She added, “Once the paper is collected on a weekly basis it is sorted at a MRF (materials recovery facility) and then sent to a paper manufacturers’ to be recycled back into paper and cardboard products. Who knows, in the next few weeks we may even be writing our next piece of text on paper we sent to them in the first place, as the ad says – the possibilities are endless!”
Centre Manager, Chris Jones commented, “I was only too pleased for the Centre to become involved. It encourages the education of efficient waste management, the goal being minimisation and effective re-use - so what’s more admirable in this day and age than to recycle. It is imperative we see materials as a resource not as waste, therefore this project is to be highly commended. Very well done to participants Sarah, Gabby, Jess, Stephanie, Abigail and the other Sarah – Sarah Smallwood for writing to me in the first place.”
for further information, please call:
Darryl Dawson
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