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Who’s bin drawing? Students from Godolphin and Latymer School, Hammersmith, have been running an innovative competition to raise funds for environmental projects in their school. In the Who’s bin drawing? competition, staff drew their own special bin and students paid 20p to guess which teacher had drawn it. The winners got music CDs and recycled stationery. Students also designed their own mini bin and the most artistic won prizes. The school has shown great determination in improving its environmental impact since joining the Rethink Rubbish at School Scheme. Not only have they implemented a school wide paper recycling scheme but they have also started recycling plastic vending cups, which are then recycled into pencils and rulers. Not content with this, they have also started selling recycled stationery in their school tuck shop to raise money for school environmental projects. Their scheme was considered so innovative that it was featured recently in BBC TV’s The Earth Report. Pupils from St Thomas More School in their cardboard haute couteur Children take cardboard to catwalk Children from St Thomas More School, Chelsea, took to the catwalk wearing colourful costumes made from reclaimed waste cardboard. The school, which recently joined the Rethink Rubbish at School programme, was performing a fashion show as part of its annual Body Sculpture event. Campaign Education Officer, Dan Beenham said: “The school’s work is a great example of using high-quality art to promote an environmental message. They’re not just talking about recycling, they are actually taking action to reduce, reuse and recycle as much of the schools rubbish as possible.” The school has been running the fashion show based on different themes for over 10 years. Each year students make costumes using waste cardboard from local shops that would otherwise have been destined for the dustbin. Afternoon fashion shows were held for the whole school with an evening show performed for parents and families. Pupils from Alderbrook Primary School with the Volkswagen Beetle compost bin Giant beetle drives compost message home Pupils from Alderbrook Primary School, Balham, met an unusual composter whilst visiting Vauxhall City Farm. As well as learning a great deal about the different animals and their lifecycles, they also saw the unorthodox way the farm looks after its organic waste. Waste straw, manure, fruit & vegetable peelings and animal bedding is left to rot down inside an old Volkswagen Beetle, decorated with images of animals from the farm. The farm also feeds fruit and vegetable waste to its wormery, ensuring nothing goes to waste. The school visited the farm as part of its Science Week, which had recycling as its main theme. During the week the school also built a weather vane made from recycled materials, had paper making sessions and were introduced to the Waste Watch wormery. 4 summer 2004 • wasted
TEACHERS’ RESOURCE instant expert A whirlwind tour of issues relating to paper The figures The UK used 12.5 million tones of paper and cardboard in 2002. Paper can be recycled 5 times before the wood fibres become too weak and need to be replaced. Including paper, cardboard, newspapers, magazines, telephone directories and packaging, each family in the UK uses the equivalent of six trees per year. The issues Recycling paper means we don’t have the problems of disposal associated with burying our rubbish in landfill sites, or incinerating it. Recycled paper uses 30 to 70% less energy than making new paper, and far less water too. The politics Paper, along with garden and kitchen waste is covered by targets in The Waste Strategy 2000, which aims for a 25 % reduction in biodegradable waste going to landfill by 2005. If we can’t bury this paper anymore, we must either recycle it or burn it in incinerators. A report from CSERGE (Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment) investigated whether it is better to recycle or incinerate waste paper. “The UK's national income rises by around £154 for every additional tonne of paper recycled; recycling creates three times the number of jobs that incineration would; recycling offers savings for local authorities; and recycling paper saves more energy than is generated through its incineration.” The solutions Reduce the amount of paper used in school especially in ICT classes by printing on both sides. 30% of all household rubbish is paper. The UK recovers about 50% of all the paper used each year. UK papers mills use a lot of recycled material in the paper they manufacture – about 66% - compared to only 48% in European mills. Trees for paper making are often grown and harvested as a long term crop with new trees planted to replace those cut down. This is often referred to as “sustainable forestry”. One drawback is that these managed plantations do not provide the wildlife habitats of naturally occurring forests. Timber and occasionally paper products made using wood from sustainable forests often bear the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) logo. This guarantees that the wood does not originate from irresponsibly cleared, virgin forests in places such as the Amazon. Reuse paper in school by creating scrap boxes where partially used paper can be used again for “rough” work, in Art, D&T and other classes. Shredded paper can be sold to mail order companies as a packaging material and in certain circumstances, as animal bedding (but be careful of poisonous inks or dyes). Recycle paper at home and school. Many households now have a kerbside collection service for waste paper such as newspapers and magazines. If not then take your waste paper to a local paper bank. Close the loop and buy recycled paper products at home and school. Most paper suppliers carry a range of high quality recycled paper for printers and photocopying. Visit www.recycledproducts.org.uk to find out more about recycled paper products. Take action Lobby your school to buy recycled paper. Write a letter to your headmaster asking if your school has a green purchasing policy. Point out all the good environmental reasons for buying green products and ask for changes to be made. Get the letter signed by as many staff and pupils as possible. © Waste Watch 2004 wasted • summer 2004 5
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