Page 11 - Eco-Schools Newsletter - Autumn Term One 2022 - English

Packaging Reading Recommendations

When visiting most supermarkets, Zero waste shops encourage
you will see packaging everywhere, shoppers to bring their own

packaging that has been designed containers to be refilled over and

to be used once. We can slow down over again. Products can range from Ellen MacArthur Foundation

the consumption of resources by food ingredients to shampoos and
recycling many items of packaging, washing liquids, with every refill Despairing at the amount of litter in the oceans,

however, for a long-term and having a positive environmental the Ellen MacArthur Foundation charity to promote
former sailor Dame Ellen MacArthur has established
sustainable solution we need to be impact.
a circular economy.
more circular! How can we do this?
Recognising that refilling needs to

Our potential to innovate solutions be a convenient option for today’s Take a look at their website for some excellent

explanations and examples.
for our planet can be seen in lifestyle, there are companies
examples such as the company that that are working to bring refillable

created biodegradable packaging versions of single use items into

which dissolves back into nature mainstream shops.
after it has served its purpose.

My Tree, Our Forest: For Schools

Circular Packaging at School An exciting new project is coming in the new school year – the

Many primary schools across Wales Therefore, some schools have made chance to have a small woodland or hedge row planted in your school

have noticed the vast amount of the switch to receiving their milk in (consisting of either 60 or 120 trees provided by Woodland Trust).
plastic waste that’s generated glass milk bottles that are poured

from individual plastic milk bottles into reusable beakers at school Keep Wales Tidy will visit your school to help with the planting of the

every day. Although most schools and returned to the dairy to be trees, and educational workshops including from Size of Wales will also

are great at recycling these, it’s used repeatedly. Ysgol Trefonnen in be provided. All for free!
not a long-term solution as plastic Powys worked out that they have We’re proud to be supporting Welsh Government’s ‘My Tree, Our

deteriorates in quality each time it’s prevented the use of a staggering Forest ’ programme.

recycled. 21,000 plastic bottles a year this
way! We have packages for 100 schools so apply now