Rubbish in our Schools

Our school excels in academic subjects but in hygiene, specifically environmental standards rubbish around the playground areas suggests that this is an area of concern. Rubbish in our school consists of a broad range of edibles to wrappers and glad wrap.

If children were to take their lunch and morning break rubbish home  - wrappers including those off muesli bars, glad wrap from sandwiches and rolls, paper bags and uneaten food, it would save it going in the rubbish bins at school. These rubbish bins are often visited by seagulls who scavenge for food.  The regular behavior of their visits results in them ravaging our school bins in search of the unfinished food discarded by pupils. Remnants of this scattering can be found around bins which usually get caught by wind.

We could also place more bins in the school so that children would not be lazy to put it in the bin as laziness is one of the leading causes of rubbish scattered in the school. Our rubbish bins could also be expanded so that it can carry more rubbish and not be overflowed by rubbish.

A further way to reduce the amount of rubbish around our school and to manage the seagull problem could also be to replace our playground rubbish bins with those that have lids on them and perhaps returning to the use of the council recycle bins in the playground too, to encourage their use. This would mean that papers and wrappers would not fly out of the bins.