Jan Solheim (à gauche) et Erwann Rigault (à droite)
My college / high school has sorting bins for paper, and yet, no environmentally friendly sorting system was in place. Indeed, the majority of paper was always thrown away with household waste. Here’s how we changed things to reduce our waste, develop selective sorting and thus increase the part that is recycled.
1. Identify sorting needs
In our middle school/high school, we aimed to sort waste, respecting Vulkan’s eco-responsible standards. We have also decided to recover the cardboard and set up a sorting of food waste, in order to support the “compost” action of our fellow eco-delegates.
2. Communication in classes
This type of sorting is much easier (and pleasant) to do with several people. It is also an excellent way to involve students in an eco-responsible approach.
Their comrades will do the sorting all the better. Don’t forget the staff room, since a lot of paper can be sorted and reused for photocopies, for example.
3. Gather sorting tools
We simply collected trash cans and created posters to stick on the different bins and sorting instructions to display in the college.
Thus, we have set up 3 “sorting centers”, accessible to all classes, the foyer and the staff of the establishment.
4. What difficulties?
Of course, there were a lot of sorting errors. On this side, we must continue the communication. In general, we note that students are making more and more effort to sort correctly.
Conclusion
Although this project did not take us a lot of time, we hope to standardize waste sorting next year, so that we can focus on other projects. In any case, the introduction of waste sorting has enabled the pupils to awaken a little to recycling and to adopt good habits, which they will be able to pass on to those around them.
The Eco-deleguates