Recycling

In Spring 2006 Robin Hood Junior School's Eco Team invited Sutton's Centre for Environmental Initiatives to speak to the whole school about the importance of recycling to our planet. We learnt that the landfill sites in the UK are almost full and people were simply 'using too much, wasting too much and not recycling enough'.

Silhouette of person having a bright idea.

Did you know?

In Europe 3,500 bins of rubbish are thrown away every minute!

Silhouette of person having a bright idea.

Did you know?

Waste produced in the UK in 1 hour would fill the Albert Hall!

Household waste in the UK has risen to over 500kg per person per year and to continue living the way we are, we would need 3 planets!!

The Eco Team decided that Robin Hood Junior School should do more to encourage recycling and reduce waste in our school community. We joined the 'Recycling Champions' scheme set up by the CEI (now Ecolocal) and appointed Eco Team members to head these new initiatives....
	Textile & Shoe Recycling
	Paper recycling & Eco purchasing
	Mobile phone recycling
	Recycling of computer ink cartridges

Eco Team Leaders organise and oversee a very successful recycling initiative that has involved and been well supported by the whole school community. Clich here to read the Eco Team Leaders' Recycling Champion Report	"We sort the donations during our lunch break and record our sack totals on our target chart."
We set ourselves a target for the school year of 44 sacks of textiles and 10 sacks of shoes.

In our first full school year we collected 64 sacks of textiles and 11 sacks of shoes.
Thank you to all the parents and friends who donated old clothes and shoes. With the credits we earned we were able to afford the water butts that our Allotment Club and Water Team needed for our gardens.

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Pupil compiling paper recycling report

Click here to read the Paper recycling teams report.

Click here to see the tally chart which shows the number of trees cut down to provide paper for our school.

Click here to see a memo circulated within the school to encourage use of paper on both sides.

Click here to read the letter written by members of the Paper Recycling Team to Sutton Council.

Did you know?

Recycling a 1 metre stack of newspapers saves 1 tree!

Did you know?

Every year we need a forest the size of Wales to provide all the paper used in Britain!

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Manufacturing 1 tonne of recycled paper results in 74% less air pollution and 43% less water pollution compared to the manufacture of paper using new wood pulp.

Please help protect the environment by buying recycled paper products whenever possible.

Mobile phone picture Mobile phone recycling logo

We set ourselves a target of collecting 200 phones. We achieved this target and raised £300 for the school from collecting the phones.

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Did you know?

Approximately 75 million old mobile phones have been left in UK cupboards - placed end to end, these would stretch around a football pitch 32 thousand times!

At the end of last term we took the decision that this would be a project we would progress in September 2007. We have collected all cartridges used within the school and those brought in from outside the school throughout the past school year.

Did you know?

Printer ink costs more than space shuttle fuel or vintage champagne!

Did you know?

An estimated 5,000 tonnes of inkjet cartridges and 85,000 tonnes of laser cartridges will be saved from landfill in the next 5 years.

Thank you to all the parents and friends who donated old clothes and shoes. With the credits we earned we were able to afford the water butts that our Allotment Club and Water Team needed for our gardens.

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