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School examples
Peterston Super Ely Church in Wales Barker’s Lane Primary School Crownbridge Special School
Primary School
Peterston Super Ely Church in Wales Primary school The Eco Ninjas at Barker’s Lane Primary School in As a result of investigating recycling and waste at
held a “Be Green to be Eco Clean” Day of Action. Wrexham noticed that too much food and packaging their school, pupils at Crownbridge Special School
Everybody wore green and brought a pound donation waste was generated at lunch times. As a result, they in Torfaen identified an opportunity to upcycle many
for fundraising (the money is being used to buy new created a Day of Action themed ‘Don’t Let the Bin of the waste products that were being collected.
recycling bins). Win’. The whole school were involved in swapping any These findings persuaded staff at the school to create
single-use lunch containers for reusable versions. a new vocational course entitled ‘upcycling’. Pupil
The day consisted of whole school assembly times, Pupils that ate school dinners also attempted to participation in this work furthers their skills and
workshops and data collecting tasks. These tasks reduce their food waste as much as possible. The Eco interests, as well as resulting in the creation of some
included collecting figures for litter in the school Ninjas even enlisted the help of the cook to keep a fantastic resources from waste products.
grounds, school dinner wastage and numbers of record of how much waste they were creating.
cartons and throw-away bottles in pupils’ lunch
boxes. The Action Day was a huge success, with the amount
of general waste halved and the amount of food waste
The day was a great success and future actions for reduced by 75%! This is equivalent to 95 bin bags of
improvement were created as a result. waste prevented from going to landfill each year.
