The document summarizes research conducted by students on rubbish and recycling at Cranford school. It finds that some classrooms had no recycling bins and paper recycling was poor. Large amounts of rubbish like bottles and plastic wrappers were found on the field and concourse. Students propose adding more bins, reinforcing recycling ideas, and initiatives to reduce litter to make Cranford a cleaner learning environment.

2. Rubbish & Recycling at Cranford
• As part of a group project we where
asked to look at one environmental
issue in Cranford
• We chose the topics rubbish and
recycling
• Here is a short clip to show what we
found out!
Rubbish & Recycling at Cranford

4. Rooms
Number of
recycling
bins in
rooms
Amount of
paper on
the floor
Amount of
bottles and
cans on the
floor
Drama 0/2 1 0
English 4/6 23 0
Music 0/2 0 0
Languages 2/6 32 1
Science 6/9 31 0
Re 2/2 0 0
Maths 3/5 14 0
Art/DT 6/10 51 0
PE 0 0 0
Businesses ¼ 11 0
This is the research that we did at lunchtime
Recycling bins/ rubbish found in classrooms

5. Rubbish on the Concourse & the
field
How many
cans/bottles
are there
on the
field?
How many
cans/bottles
on the
ground on
the
Concourse?
How many
bins are
there on
the
Concourse?
How many
of these are
full?
160 80 17 2

6. • The two departments which recycles their
paper waste the most is the Art and the
Science department
• the total number of bottles found in the all
the classrooms we looked at was only 1!
• Departments with the least number of
paper on the floor – Drama, Music, RE and
PE

7. • There is way too many rubbish/bottles on
the ground in the fields
• Students should start using the rubbish
bins more often
• Only 2 bins out of 17 were full
• There is way too much paper/shredded
paper on the floor in the English, Art and
the Languages department

8. Look how close the
bins are to the eating
bench, but still no
one makes an effort
to take a few steps
to put the rubbish in
the bin

9. Recycling bins are used to recycle things, in this
picture the bin is used as a dump ( keyboards,
chocolate tins, wires etc)

10. The animals (horses and the birds) can choke
from the rubbish on the ground (plastic wrappers
etc) which can cause death, why kill innocent
living things with our laziness?
Also students
can trip over
bottles! One
of the
cranford
rights are “
the right to
be safe” if
there are
bottles & etc
lying around,
we are risking
the chances
of injuries

11. • We were surprised at how so many class
rooms have no recycling bins
• The recycling of paper is very poor in most
classrooms
• There are lots of rubbish on the field and
concourse ( especially – plastic wrappers,
bottles)

12. • We could have more bins around the field
• Reinforce the idea and the use of recycling bins ( introduce
reward system – eg: the tutor group with the most amount of
paper in the recycling bin gets dream points, etc)
• Avoid use of paper whenever possible ( use interactive white
boards more often etc)
• Asking students to not litter ( eg: can award dream points)
• Making the whole process of recycling and putting rubbish in
the bin as a motivating idea ( rewards, notifications,
competitions etc)
• Have more recycling bins in each classroom
• Next to the rubbish bins, have recycling bins to recycle
wrappers, plastic bottles etc to make sure we are recycling
as much as possible

13. LET US MAKE CRANFORD A BETTER,
CLEANER AND A MORE USEFUL
ENVIRONMENT TO LEARN IN
A SMALL CHANGE CAN MAKE A BIG
DIFFERENCE!

15. 0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Yes No Maybe
do you think the year 11 are being a good
role model in recycling?
Which of these departments do you think
recycles the least?
6
7
5
Art//DT
Maths
Science

16. 0 2 4 6 8
yes
no
sometimes
Do you take the initiative to put the rubbish in
the bin and recycle them?
Do you think the schoolhas agood attitude to
recycling or litter?
yes
sometimes
no
never

17. How do the school's sculptures appeal to you?
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
interesting boring colourful don’t know w here
the sculptures are
c

18. What type of sculptures would you like to see?
2
6
6
7
Environmentallyfriendly
Arty
Funky/stylish
Visuallyintresting to
look at

19. What is the biggest environment issue at cranford?
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Not recycling food w aste littering Energy w aste

20. Whichyeargrouplittersthemost?
3
3
3
3
2
1
Year7
year8
year9
year10
year11
Sixthform
Which year group litters the least?
7
0
2
1
3
1
Year 7
year 8
year 9
year 10
year 11
Sixthform
z