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Managing Waste
Managing Waste
Waste management is one of the main objectives we are focusing on this year: at present, we have a recycling system within campus, including the recycling of glass, plastic, paper, Milo cartons, and cans.
Recent inspections helped us identify opportunities to strengthen the system. For instance, clearer guidelines on what can be recycled and greater community understanding could help reduce items being placed in the wrong bins, ensuring smoother and more efficient recycling.
We have also introduced a new chemical composter to reduce the amount of food waste that we send to landfill.
Therefore, despite the current usage of the recycling system, there are still areas we need to review and improve. By re-evaluating our approach, we aim to make waste management at our school more effective and efficient.
IDENTIFYING THE PROBLEM
Students monitored our recycling system every Tuesday and Thursday throughout the month of December. Each general waste bin and recycling bin was checked for proper sorting. Our results were collated in the charts below:
The results show that almost every general waste bin (98%) contained items that could have been recycled. Concerningly, 85.7% of our recycling bins also contained non-recyclables.
Recycling Survey
We conducted a survey to see how our recycling system is currently working. 114 students from KIS completed this survey representing 28% of the student population.
We defined regular consumption as at least once per week.
Whilst many students (44%) do not consume any recyclable products, 56% regularly consume Milo Cartons and 100 plus or other canned drinks. Despite KIS's bring your own reusable water bottle policy 14% of our students are regularly using plastic water bottles.
Students were asked to rank how often they recycled their waste. (1= never, 2= rarely, 3=sometimes, 4=most of the time, 5= always)
Currently only 31% of respondents are always recycling their recyclables.
46.5% of students are rarely or never recycling their waste suggesting a radical overhaul of our current recycling system is needed to reduce our wastage.
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