The Island School waste audit found that the school produced a total of 353 kg of waste in one day. Plastic waste totaled 9 kg, metal waste was 13 kg but only 260 grams (2%) was recycled. There was also 137 kg of food waste, 155 kg of paper and cardboard, and 37 kg of "other" waste mainly from blocks 3 and 4. The audit results aimed to bring awareness to the amount of waste the school produces daily in hopes of reducing it.

1. Island School Waste
Audit
Results
October 2015

2. What is the Waste Audit?
At Wanbo we care about the environment, in order to bring attention to the
amount of waste we are using as a school we have collected data on how
much waste we as a school produce in one day.

3. Plastic We have gathered a total
of 9 kg of waste, about the
same weight of around
125 eggs.

4. Metal
We have gathered 13 kilograms of
metal, or around the same weight
of 100 iPhone 6s

5. ONLY: 260 grams out of 13090
grams of metal was recycled.
2% of metals were
recycled in Island School

6. 37 kilograms worth of ‘other’ trash…
It is around the same weight of 260
bags of Haribo Gold Bears
Mainly found in blocks 3 and 4 bins
I’m

7. FoodWe collected 139 kg of
food waste!
Around the sa me
weight as 2,375 tennis
balls.

8. Paper and Cardboard
✘ 155 kg
✘ Around the same
weight as 674
notebooks!

9. 353 kg
total waste

10. TOtals-

11. HOW CAN YOU HELP?
Reusing things mean
that we don’t waste it
by throwing it in the
garbage only to use
another one later in
the week.
Bring your own
utensils, cups or
bottles (plus coffee is
a dollar less
expensive if you bring
your own cup!)
We don’t have to
throw away as much
(duh)
Less waste of food
since you eat
everything that you
brought!
FOOD
Take what you need.
Eat what you take