This document summarizes an environmental presentation by several students at Cranford school. It discusses three main issues: recycling, rubbish on the field/playground, and food waste. For recycling, the students collected statistics showing poor recycling in classrooms and high litter outside. Their proposed solutions include more bins, rewards for recycling, and reducing paper use. For their sculpture, they created a planet drowning in garbage with a crying man and baby to represent threatened future generations. The section on food waste details data collected in the dining hall, finding 1080 bags of waste are generated each year just at lunch. Overall, the students conclude Cranford needs to improve its environmental practices.

1. Irbaaz, Ricky, Omar, Marie, Amar and Emanuel Energy Wasting!Food waste!Recycling!

2. What our presentation is about Different environmental issues at CranfordHow the environment is damaging our schoolHow we are getting the message across about this problemWhat is Cranford doing about these issuesThe sculptures we createdReal statistics about these issues and data we collectedWho is causing these issues and how they are trying to be preventedResearch and information we collectedWhat people around school have to say about Cranford’s environment Our conclusion

3. Rubbish And Recycling at CranfordOne of the environmental issues we looked at were recycling. Saujanya, Ricky and Omar went around school and did some research on how good Cranford is at recycling. They took statistics and made a video of the dangers.We found many dangers that are affecting students and wildlife around school such as littering on the field and playground. We had seen many birds eating on the un-recycled material and these could lead to the death of many birds. We also noticed students tripping over and hurting themselves over left of bottles and packets. We were surprised at the fact that hardly any classrooms contained recycle bins so if students wanted to recycle there was no we they could. Also the recycling of paper in classrooms was very poor and scraps of paper were being thrown in the bin or left on the floor. We also found there is a lot of litter and food dumping on the field especially bottles and plastic wrappers.

4. Recycling in Rooms Statistics

5. Rubbish on Field and Concourse

6. FeedbackPositive feedbackArt and Science departments recycle their paper waste the mostThe total number of bottles we found in all classrooms was 1!Departments with the least paper on the floor were Drama, Music, R.E and P.ENegative feedbackThere are far too many bottles /rubbish on the field and groundsStudents should start using rubbish bins more oftenOnly 2 out of 17 bins were full!There is way to much paper and shredded paper in Art, English and Languages departmentsLaziness ! Look how close the bins are to the table

7. Our Solution to RecyclingWe could have more bins around the fieldReinforce the idea and the use of recycling binsIntroduce reward system – e.g. the tutor group with the most amount of paper in the recycling bin gets dream pointsAvoid use of paper whenever possible (use interactive white boards more often)Making the whole process of recycling and putting rubbish in the bin as a motivating idea (rewards, notifications, competitions) Have more recycling bins in each classroomUse recycle bins to recycle, not as a dump for other things

8. SculpturesThe final idea for our sculpture came when the members of our group took their best ideas and pooled them together to create 1 finalised idea that we could all agree on.Our final idea was that we would make a planet resembling the Earth, being consumed in rubbish with a man drowning and crying out for help in it at the top. The planet was also placed on top of a baby to symbolise how the planet is becoming ruined for future generations.Steps in which we made the sculptureWe took a large, round balloon and covered it in papier mache. We covered it in blue plastic to resemble oceans and green paper to resemble landmasses.We attached various types of rubbish to the globe along with a small man crying out for help whilst drowning. We made the man by taking paper and cardboard, forming it into the shape of a man and holding it together with glue.We took a jumper and filled it with paper to act as the body of the baby. It is still in development and is yet to be attached but we are getting there.

9. These are our ideas for our sculpture from energy:

10. These notes are from the environmental presentationOn the next slides ………… Food waste!

11. How we collected itWe went to the dining hall and the concert hall at lunchWe gathered the bags of wastes and counted them up

12. Lunch timeWe collected 2 bags of food waste and 2 bags of rubbish This = 4 bags of waste 5 days in a week = 20 bags of waste6 weeks in a half term = 120 bags of waste2 half terms in a term =240 bags of waste3 terms in a year = 720 bags of wasteThis is only at lunchtime!!!This makes 1080 bags of food and general waste in a year!!!!!!We need to change the way we use the environment.

13. OverallThis makes 1080 bags of food and general waste in a year!!!!!!We need to change the way we use the environment.