Day 18: School of Education bins

Here is what was in one of the SoE landfill bins yesterday. It was a similar picture in the others – with a common theme of single use coffee cups. In fact people had put those cups in landfill, in plastic recycling and in food waste. The only bin that seems to be understood well is the paper one.

So, this week’s prompts around system change feel important. What do we need to do as a School to recycle better? Apparently as a University our recycling rates have gone from around 80% of all waste, prepandemic, to around 50% currently.

I’d really love to see if we could get a School campaign going about getting to zero landfill.

And then expanding again, to think about climate justice, it seems a lot of UK plastic recycling is still being sent abroad … what can we do to highlight this and try to work towards alternative solutions?