I was extremely excited last Friday as our new recycling bins arrived. (What? I lead a boring life, what can I say?) It made me wonder how much other places on the planet enforced recycling
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I mean hey, if it keeps them from having to make MORE dumping areas for man's garbage and the rest can be recycled and reused, why not? Excatly. I think it is great that we have finally started making an effort to reduce landfill - we can't go on as we've been.
I'm a great believer in recycling and like you would do it even if there wasn't provision; we have a green wheelie bin for garden refuge, a grey wheelie bin for household rubbish, a blue carton for glass/cans/plastic (though not things like ice-cream cartons/yoghurt pots etc. a blue plastic bag for papers and we tie cardboard into a bundle and leave it with the paper bag.
It really upsets me at school because recycling is very poor and yet that would be such a good opportunity to introduce the practice to the children. I do it in my classroom and the children are brilliant at remembering to use my paper recycle box (which I then bring home to put out with our own stuff - the collectors must wonder how we get through so much paper!). Unfortunately the head doesn't see it as a priority so she only tackles it every now and then, usually after I (or one of my other colleagues) has raised it in a staff meeting, it's very frustrating.
I am surprised that the school does not do more. As you say, it would be an ideal way to introduce kids to the idea and I can imagine the volumes of paper you must get through.
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Excatly. I think it is great that we have finally started making an effort to reduce landfill - we can't go on as we've been.
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It really upsets me at school because recycling is very poor and yet that would be such a good opportunity to introduce the practice to the children. I do it in my classroom and the children are brilliant at remembering to use my paper recycle box (which I then bring home to put out with our own stuff - the collectors must wonder how we get through so much paper!). Unfortunately the head doesn't see it as a priority so she only tackles it every now and then, usually after I (or one of my other colleagues) has raised it in a staff meeting, it's very frustrating.
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