Eco-Schools - An Introduction to Waste Management at School

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Eco-Schools - An Introduction to Waste Management
at School

• A Resource for Waste Education Officers and
  Eco-Schools Co-ordinators

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Waste Awareness Wales

• Targeting people through the media
• Supporting Local Authority Waste Teams
• Provide Seminars and Road shows
• Competitions and promotions
• Waste Awareness Education
• Without participation there can be no schemes
  without education there will be no
  participation. - Owain Griffiths

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The Challenge
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The Waste Hierarchy

• Prevent Waste Production
• Reduce Waste Production
• Reuse Materials
• Recycle
• Recover
• Dispose

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What is Waste Minimisation?

• The reduction of waste outputs through sensible
  purchasing and procurement
• Reuse of materials
• Recycling of separated waste
• Composting
• In this way, waste is tackled at the point
• of production.

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Reduce Shop Smart Buy Recycled
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Reuse
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Recycle
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Targets and Drivers

• The E.U. Landfill Directive 1st Main
  Legislation
• Wise About Waste set by the Welsh Assembly
  Government
• Waste Emissions and Trading Act most recent

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E.U. Landfill Directive

• The first major legislation attempting to stem
  waste production
• By 2010 no more than 75 of the biodegradable
  municipal waste (BMW) produced in 1995 can be
  landfilled
• By 2020 no more than 35 of the 1995 figure can
  be landfilled. Waste arisings are growing by
  around 3 p.a. therefore will be double the 1995
  levels.

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Wise About Waste

• Welsh Assembly Government targets based upon
  municipal waste
• By 2003/04 achieve 15 recycling /composting
  (min. 5 composting)
• By 2006/07 achieve at least 25
  recycling/composting (min. 10 composting)
• By 2009/10 achieve 40 recycling/ composting
  (min. 15 composting)
• By 2010 waste arisings per household to be no
  greater than those in 1997/98.

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Waste Emissions and Trading
Bill

• Will allow the Welsh Assembly Government to limit
  the amount of biodegradable materials landfilled
  by each council
• Local disposal allowances issued relative to
  population (i.e. number of tonnes of waste
  allowed to be disposed of to landfill)
• Unlike England, there is no intention by the
  Welsh Assembly Government to introduce tradable
  permits in Wales.

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How Can Schools Help?

• Contact the Waste Education Officer to ask about
  the availability of local recycling services and
  school support.
• Join the Eco-Schools Programme and become active
• Seek out Waste packs and resources (see Waste
  Publications database)
• Integrate environmental issues across the
  curriculum (especially Personal and Social
  Education, Geography, Science, and Language)

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Schools Waste Reduction

• Schools are usually able to recycle a large
  number of materials, including paper and cans
• Increasingly, plastics, textiles and mobile
  phones are being collected.
• Fruit peel and vegetable scraps can be composted.
  Compost bins and wormeries are a valuable
  educational resource.
• The children of today are the producers of
  tomorrow. Instilling the habit of recycling
  practices at a young age will help them carry
  environmental responsibilities throughout their
  lives - prof. Chris Baines

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Schools Waste Reduction

• From September 2004, Her Majestys Inspectorate,
  ESTYN, will be checking schools on their pupils
  knowledge of sustainable issues, and also on how
  the school behaves in a sustainable way.
• Recycling of paper and composting could reduce
  the amount of waste a school generates by over
  60 (with a corresponding reduction in refuse
  collection costs)

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Eco-Schools Programme

• The European Eco-Schools Green Flag is awarded to
  schools showing a commitment to environmental
  improvement and sustainability.
• Pupils are encouraged to take action on areas
  they see as high priority. These may include
  Litter, Waste reduction, Safe routes to school,
  Waste-free lunches, Energy saving and
  Conservation.
• Eco-Schools encourages pupils to identify local
  support to ensure that targets are met.

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The Eco-Schools Process

• The pupils
• Form an Eco-Committee
• Do an Environmental Survey
• Produce a Plan of Action
• Integrate with curriculum activities
• Involve local community and business
• Collect data to show improvements
• Publish and display an Eco-Code

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The European Green Flag at Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg
Brynmawr
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Eco-Schools - How to JoinYou can either

• Join on-line at www.eco-schools.org.uk
• Fill in the form on the Eco-Schools leaflet
• Or give your school details to
• The Eco-Schools Officer
• Keep Wales Tidy Campaign
• 33 35 Cathedral Road
• Cardiff CF11 9HB
• or e-mail to zoot_at_dial.pipex.com
• All materials are free, and available in Welsh or
  English

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Eco-Schools Programme

• Schools can apply on-line for Bronze and Silver
  certificates to bench mark their progress
  www.eco-schools.org.uk click Get
  an award
• It takes approx. 2 years to get to Green Flag
  status, and it is hoped that the 3Rs ethos of
  Reduce, Reuse Recycle will become embedded in
  the minds of pupils and in the general management
  of the school.

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Finally

• Rubbish is an environmental problem belonging
  to everyone we all produce it. We must learn to
  take responsibility and realise that we are the
  cause of, and the solution to, the problem.
• The future of recycling in Wales lies in the
  hands of the next generation. With school
  projects starting up across the nation, there has
  never been a better time to pass on the 3Rs
  message
• - Dewi Smith, Cylchgrawn

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Eco-Sgolion - Cyflwyno DulliauRheoli Gwastraff
yn yr Ysgol

• Ar gyfer swyddogion addysg am wastraff a
  chydlynwyr Rhaglen yr Eco-Sgolion

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Cynllun Craff am Wastraff

• Targedu pobl trwy'r cyfryngau
• Helpu timau gwastraff yr awdurdodau lleol
• Cynnal seminarau a sioeau teithiol
• Cystadlaethau a mentrau hyrwyddo
• Addysg am faterion gwastraff
• All cynlluniau ddim llwyddo os nad oes neb yn
  cymryd rhan heb addysg, allwn ni ddim ysgogi
  pobl i wneud hynny. - Owain Griffiths

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Yr her
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Trefn gwastraff

• Atal gwastraff
• Arbed
• Ailddefnyddio pethau
• Ailgylchu
• Adennill
• Cael gwared

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Beth yw arbed gwastraff?

• Lleihau gwastraff trwy brynu a chaffael yn
  synhwyrol
• Ailddefnyddio pethau
• Ailgylchu gwastraff sydd wedi'i ddidoli
• Gwrteithio
• Fel hyn, gallwn ni fynd i'r afael â gwastraff
  wrth ei gynhyrchu.

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Arbed 'Prynu priodol pethau eildro'
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Ailddefnyddio
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Ailgylchu
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Targedau ac ysgogyddion

• Cyfarwyddeb Undeb Ewrop ynghylch Claddu Sbwriel
  deddf sylfaenol gyntaf
• Yn Gall gyda Gwastraff strategaeth
  Llywodraeth y Cynulliad
• Deddf 'Gollwng Gwastraff a Masnachu' y ddeddf
  fwyaf diweddar

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Cyfarwyddeb Undeb Ewrop

• Y ddeddf sylfaenol gyntaf ar gyfer mynd i'r afael
  â
• gwastraff
• Erbyn 2010, fydd dim modd claddu mwy na 75 o'r
  sbwriel pydradwy a greodd trefi ym 1995.
• Erbyn 2010, fydd dim modd claddu mwy na 35 o'i
  gymharu â 1995. Mae gwastraff yn codi o ryw 3 y
  flwyddyn a bydd yn ddwywaith gymaint â'r hyn a fu
  ym 1995.

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Yn Gall gyda Gwastraff

• Targedau Llywodraeth y Cynulliad ynglyn â
  gwastraff trefi
• Erbyn 2003/04, ailgylchu neu wrteithio 15 (o
  leiaf 5 gwrteithio)
• Erbyn 2006/07, ailgylchu neu wrteithio 25 (o
  leiaf 10 gwrteithio)
• Erbyn 2009/10, ailgylchu neu wrteithio 40 (o
  leiaf 15 gwrteithio)
• Erbyn 2010, gwastraff pob cartref i fod yr un
  faint â'r hyn a fu ym 1997/98.

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Mesur 'Gollwng Gwastraff a Masnachu'

• Bydd yn galluogi Llywodraeth y Cynulliad i bennu
  faint o ddeunyddiau pydradwy mae pob cyngor yn
  cael eu claddu.
• Bydd pob cyngor yn cael claddu hyn a hyn o
  dunelli yn ôl faint o bobl sydd yn ei fro.
• Yn wahanol i Loegr, dyw Llywodraeth y Cynulliad
  ddim yn bwriadu cyflwyno caniatâd mae modd ei
  werthu.

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Sut gall yr ysgolion helpu?

• Cysylltu â swyddog yr addysg am wastraff i'w holi
  am y gwasanaethau ailgylchu a'r cymorth i
  ysgolion sydd ar gael yn lleol.
• Ymuno â Rhaglen yr Eco-Sgolion a chymryd rhan yn
  ei gweithgareddau.
• Chwilio am becynnau ac adnoddau am wastraff
  (gweler cronfa ddata'r Cyhoeddiadau am Wastraff).
• Cyfuno materion yr amgylchedd yn y cwrícwlwm (yn
  enwedig addysg bersonol a chymdeithasol,
  daearyddiaeth, gwyddoniaeth ac ieithoedd).

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Arbed gwastraff yn yr ysgolion

• Fel arfer, mae'r ysgolion yn gallu ailgylchu
  nifer helaeth o ddeunyddiau megis papur a
  thuniau.
• Mae nwyddau plastig, dillad a ffonau poced yn
  cael eu casglu mwyfwy.
• Mae modd gwrteithio croen ffrwythau ac olion
  llysiau. Mae biniau gwrtaith ac abwydfeydd yn
  adnoddau addysg gwerthfawr.
• Bydd plant yn creu gwastraff pan ddôn nhw i
  oed. O feithrin arferion ailgylchu yn eu plith
  tra bôn nhw'n dal yn ifainc, gallwn ni'u helpu i
  ofalu am yr amgylchedd drwy gydol eu hoesau
  - Yr Athro Chris Baines

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Arbed gwastraff yn yr ysgolion

• O fis Medi 2004 ymlaen, fe fydd Arolygiaeth Ei
  Mawrhydi (ESTYN) am weld faint mae disgyblion pob
  ysgol yn ei wybod am ddatblygu cynaladwy ac i ba
  raddau mae'r ysgol yn cadw at egwyddorion y pwnc
  hwnnw.
• O ailgylchu papur a gwrteithio, gallai pob ysgol
  gwtogi ar y gwastraff mae'n ei greu o dros 60
  (gan arbed costau casglu sbwriel, hefyd).

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Rhaglen Eco-Sgolion

• Gall ysgolion sy'n ymroi i wella a chynnal yr
  amgylchedd ennill Baner Werdd Eco-Sgolion Ewrop.
• Mae'r disgyblion yn cael eu hannog i gymryd camau
  yn y meysydd sy'n bwysig iddyn nhw, megis lluchio
  sbwriel, arbed gwastraff, llwybrau diogel i'r
  ysgol, ciniawau heb wastraff, arbed ynni a
  chadwraeth.
• Mae'r rhaglen yn annog y disgyblion i nodi'r
  cymorth lleol i ofalu bod modd cyflawni targedau.

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Proses Rhaglen Eco-Sgolion

• Bydd y disgyblion yn
• Sefydlu pwyllgor dros yr amgylchedd.
• Cynnal arolwg o'r amgylchedd.
• Paratoi cynllun gweithredu.
• Cyfuno'r gwaith â phynciau'r cwrícwlwm.
• Cydweithio â phobl a chwmnïau'r fro.
• Casglu data i ddangos y gwelliannau.
• Cyhoeddi a dangos côd amgylcheddol.

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Baner Werdd Ewrop yn Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg
Bryn-mawr
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Sut i ymuno â'r rhaglenCewch chi naill ai

• ymuno ar-lein www.eco-schools.org.uk
• llenwi'r ffurflen sydd yn ein taflen
• neu anfon manylion eich ysgol at
• Swyddog Rhaglen Eco-Sgolion
• Ymgyrch Cadwch Gymrun Daclus
• 33 35 Heol y Gadeirlan, Caerdydd CF11 9HB
• Ebost zoot_at_dial.pipex.com
• Mae'r deunyddiau'n rhad ac am ddim ac ar gael yn
  y
• Gymraeg a'r Saesneg.

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Rhaglen yr Eco-Sgolion

• Mae pob ysgol yn cael cyflwyno cais am Dystysgrif
  Arian neu Efydd i feincnodi'i chynnydd trwy
  gyrchu www.eco-schools.org.uk a chlicio ar Get
  an award.
• Bydd angen tua 2 flynedd i ennill y Faner Werdd
  a'r gobaith yw bydd disgyblion a staff yr ysgol i
  gyd yn cydio yn neges y 3A- Arbed,
  Ailddefnyddio ac Ailgylchu.

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Yn olaf...

• Mae sbwriel yn broblem amgylcheddol sy'n
  berthnasol i bawb - rydyn ni i gyd yn ei greu.
  Rhaid inni ddysgu i ysgwyddo cyfrifoldeb a
  sylweddoli mai ni sy'n achosi'r broblem a ni
  ddylai'i datrys.
• Mae tynged ailgylchu yng Nghymru yn nwylo'r
  genhedlaeth nesaf. Gan fod ysgolion ledled y
  wlad yn sefydlu prosiectau, dyma'r adeg orau
  erioed i ledaenu neges y 3A
• - Dewi Smith, Cylchgrawn