Recycling cardboard

One of the surprises of our bin hoke was that heavy cardboard was the largest element of waste from our kitchen. In addition, our new interactive whiteboards, installed last week, left behind a huge amount of cardboard. Jean Forbes, one of our governors, saw the cardboard out the window, emailed Joe McMahon of the Interchurch Recycling Project. Next day, all of our cardboard was on its way to be recycled, and a regular pick-up has been organised for Thursdays. Fabulous! Thanks a million to Jean, Joe and the project.

Rechargeable Batteries

Has anyone tried USB rechargeable batteries? They are supposed to appeal people who mean to but never get round to managing a recharger. They work by recharging through any USB port. We have a few out among us being trialled. Let us know if you have used them and how you find them in terms of useability and efficiency.

Big Smell

That's us: Michael from Second Nature and student volunteer Stephen; Joanne Anderson; Alison Bahadoor; Ellen McVea; the whole of year 9. We hoked everything out, we sorted, we weighed, we recorded the paper, glass, cardboard, glass, plastic, tins and the residual and then.....we put it all back in again. One ordinary bin and one recycling bin came out and one half full ordinary bin and two recycling bins went back, so that gives us a preliminary idea of what has to be done. Down District Council has provided us with plenty of new recycling bins so that we can have full coverage throughout the college. Year 9 are going to spread the message throughout the rest of the college, and then we just need to do it! The measurements will be put together by year 9 geography classes and passed on to Second Nature to add to our Carbon Footprint measurement. Milliions of thanks to Michael, who took charge of us.

Big Bin Hoke

With Michael of Second Nature to help us, year 9 geography students are undertaking a Big Bin Hoke on Tuesday 16th January. The students will hoke the rubbish out of the bins, will sort it, weigh it and measure it and analyse how we currently manage our waste. The results will allow us to make an action plan so that in future we are recycling and composting to the maximum.