Rubbish & Recycling at Cranford

• As part of a group project we where asked to look at one environmental issue in Cranford

• We chose the topics rubbish and recycling

• Here is a short clip to show what we found out!

Rubbish & Recycling at Cranford

Rooms Number

of recycling bins in rooms

Amount of paper on the floor

Amount of bottles

and cans on the floor

Drama 0/2 1 0

English 4/6 23 0

Music 0/2 0 0

Languages

2/6 32 1

Science 6/9 31 0

Re 2/2 0 0

Maths 3/5 14 0

Art/DT 6/10 51 0

PE 0 0 0

Businesses

¼ 11 0This is the research that we did at lunchtime

Recycling bins/ rubbish found in classrooms

Rubbish on the Concourse & the field

How many cans/bottles are there on the field?

How many cans/bottles on the ground on the Concourse?

How many bins are there on the Concourse?

How many of these are full?

160 80 17 2

• The two departments which recycles their paper waste the most is the Art and the Science department

• the total number of bottles found in the all the classrooms we looked at was only 1!

• Departments with the least number of paper on the floor – Drama, Music, RE and PE

• There is way too many rubbish/bottles on the ground in the fields

• Students should start using the rubbish bins more often

• Only 2 bins out of 17 were full

• There is way too much paper/shredded paper on the floor in the English, Art and the Languages department

Look how close the bins are to the

eating bench, but still no one makes an effort to take a few steps to put

the rubbish in the bin

Recycling bins are used to recycle things, in this picture the bin is used as a dump ( keyboards, chocolate tins, wires etc)

The animals (horses and the birds) can choke from the rubbish on the ground (plastic wrappers etc) which can cause

death, why kill innocent living things with our laziness?

Also students can trip

over bottles!

One of the cranford

rights are “ the right to be safe” if there are bottles & etc lying

around, we are risking

the chances of injuries

• We were surprised at how so many class rooms have no recycling bins

• The recycling of paper is very poor in most classrooms

• There are lots of rubbish on the field and concourse ( especially – plastic wrappers, bottles)

• We could have more bins around the field• Reinforce the idea and the use of recycling bins

( introduce reward system – eg: the tutor group with the most amount of paper in the recycling bin gets dream points, etc)

• Avoid use of paper whenever possible ( use interactive white boards more often etc)

• Asking students to not litter ( eg: can award dream points)

• Making the whole process of recycling and putting rubbish in the bin as a motivating idea ( rewards, notifications, competitions etc)

• Have more recycling bins in each classroom• Next to the rubbish bins, have recycling bins to recycle

wrappers, plastic bottles etc to make sure we are recycling as much as possible

LET US MAKE CRANFORD A BETTER, CLEANER AND A MORE

USEFUL ENVIRONMENT TO LEARN IN

A SMALL CHANGE CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE!

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do you think the year 11 are being a good role model in recycling?

Which of these departments do you think recycles the least?

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Do you take the initiative to put the rubbish in the bin and recycle them?

Do you think the school has a good attitude to recycling or litter?

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How do the school's sculptures appeal to you?

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What type of sculptures would you like to see?

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What is the biggest environment issue at cranford?

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Which year group litters the most?

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