We are no longer allowed to throw away food waste with other rubbish at school, and will have new bins especially for this along with our other skips.
However, this has led us to have a talk to some of the older children about reducing food waste and packaging as much as possible. Why are we doing it?Well, as well as it now being mandatory:
Food waste being collected separately, instead of in the general black waste bags, can be recycled into fertiliser and biogas for generating energy;
It is one way to help reduce our carbon footprint and further reduce reliance on landfill;
Food waste in a sack of recycling can render the entire sack un-recyclable!
The less waste we have, the less we have to spend on bin hire and collection.
Some of the older children will be supporting the children at key stage one break to segregate their waste and they are monitoring how much food waste there is each day. We are going to compost as much as possible from the food waste at breaktimes and from school dinners, and we will be sending home waste from packed lunches so that you can see what your child has or hasn’t eaten.
You could help us at home by:
-teaching your children what can be recycled and what can’t be recycled from the snacks and lunch items they bring in
-encouraging your children to eat as much as they can of what they have for snack or in their lunch.
-recycling at home, including scraping their plates at mealtimes
-helping them sort their packed lunch remains when they get home each day
-making conscious choices about what you send into school and how it is packaged
Thank you for your help.