WISE RECYCLING AT WHITEGATE

Whitegate Primary School in Clifton has been recognised by Nottingham City Council for completing ‘Nottingham City Council’s Waste In School Education Project (WISE)’. The WISE project offers help and advice to schools on waste. Practical support is also provided through exciting activities on reducing, reusing, repairing, recycling of waste.
The school have successfully completed pledges looking at how to reduce, reuse, repair and recycle and have participated in activities set by the Sustainability Education Officer at Nottingham City Council.
The school has successfully reduced the amount of food waste and have created ‘love food hate waste’ posters for dining areas to encourage children to eat all their lunchboxes or food on their plates. To run alongside this they held a ‘waste free lunch’ challenge day in the school by holding a competition between classes by collecting and weighing waste to see which class produces the least.
Whitegate Primary School also mentioned their involvement in Wise in the schools newsletter and on their website and has incorporated the national recycling logo and strap line into the school letter.
To continue the behavioural change across the school, targets have also been set in the WISE action plans to revamp paper recycling by introducing new recycling monitors and recycling bins in classrooms; to reduce the contamination of the recycling bins and to reduce the amount of organic waste generated from fruit by deciding on the best location for new compost bins and order caddies for fruit waste to be transferred to compost bins.
Councillor Katrina Bull, Portfolio Holder for Environment and Climate Change at Nottingham City Council, said: “Everyone at Whitegate Primary School has worked hard to achieve the objectives set out in the WISE project and have made a real difference to their environment.
“We hope projects like WISE will encourage young people to take ideas and activities home to their parents or carers so the whole family can be educated about living in a more environmentally friendly way.”