In order to decrease the litter and increase awareness of this serious problem, we carried out a number of tasks which involved the wider community and eventually lead to our final assembly. Our main aims throughout the project included: Informing the wider community about the gravity of the situation, introducing our individual ideas about tackling the problem and preventing the accumulation of litter once and for all. Examples of the activities we organised are things like a litter audit, several questionnaires, an anti-litter poster competition, a visit to the Farington Waste Recovery Centre, and a final assembly.
We noticed that there was a lot of litter lying around, and people couldn't be bothered to walk 10 metres to the bin. Due to this litter problem, we decided to change not only what people do, but what they think. We aimed to get a cleaner environment and to reduce our carbon footprint by increasing the recycling taking place in school. We have identified what the entire school believes are the main issues by using questionnaires, audits and assemblies, which has allowed us to work with everyone in order to reduce the amount of litter.
Our main aim to distribute our ideas throughout school, make our school and local community aware of the litter problem and stop litter altogether. We also aim to emphasise the benefits of recycling to everyone, showing them how crucial the state of our environment is to all of us. This is because without recycling the health of our local environment will deteriorate. To achieve this aim, we have purchased new out door bins and changed the role of school stewards to monitor and enforce the litter policy within school.
For this section, we recorded several short clips of the school's litter problem for a month. We also conducted a bin audit mapping out where litter was a big issue. Our team also created and presented a powerpoint to the year seven and eight pupils displaying the litter problem. We also held discussions with the food technology department about recycling.
This allowed us to alert the local community about our project by using the school website, the local newspaper and magazines. The mayor and the mayoress and Miss Rebecca Heap, of South Ribble Borough Council attended our final presentation and they commended us on our work.
Actions... > Produce effective questionnaire about litter and recycling. - These were a success and we used the data we collected from this to improve our surrounding environment. > Produce DVD and present and assembly to years seven and eight. - We used this in our final assembly and it helped us to present our ideas to a younger audience. > Write to several litter agencies to ask for support. This will help us involve the wider community. - The agencies we contacted were very enthusiastic and helped us improve the progression of our project. > We then reported our finds to the school and wider community. We also asked if anybody had any new ideas or improvements. - This was very effective and the turn out to our meetings was impressive. > We then assessed the results of our project and our research and looked for any further enhancements. - These final adjustments allowed us to finish our project.
This is a simple project idea, which is greatly effective and can be implemented by anyone from any country.
