As you already know the eco team are very busy recycling approx 600 plastic bottles a week, collecting food waste and recycling plastic pots from lunch times and litter picking around school.
They also recycle 400 crisp packets a week. Â These get packed up and sent (via the community clean up group) to terra-cycle to be recycled. Â The clean up group are committed to linking schools and local businesses to encourage recycling and community projects.
They have arranged for our school to work with Hereford train station and Transport for Wales. Â Transport for Wales have agreed to pay for recycling bins for school so that we can recycle cans, cables, crisp packets and mobile phones. Â These bins will be in the playground and parents can use these as well as the school itself.
The crisp packets are shredded and turned into UPVC window frames. Â Any monies raised from crisp packets sent in go to The New Life charity which is a national charity that help local disabled children. Any cables sent in will also go there.
Recycled cans will be sent to Widemarsh Ventures who work with vulnerable adults.
Old mobile phones will go to Horizon training who offer young people vocational training courses.
Members of the eco club went to the train station on Friday and met the station manager, the manager of Transport for Wales and members of the Hereford Community Clean up team to see the work they had been doing to clean up the station and to say thank you for the recycling bins. Â We had a guided tour of the station and saw the waiting room which we have agreed to create some work for.
We all had a great time!
