Budding environmentalists at six North East Lincolnshire schools now have new compost bins to help recycle food waste and keep their classroom gardens looking great.
North East Lincolnshire Council is offering compost bins to the area’s schools to help with environmental projects. Some schools have also had a set of wheelie bins to help with lessons about recycling.
Schools benefitting from the new bins include New Waltham Academy, Macaulay Primary Academy, William Barcroft Junior School, Humberston Academy, Cambridge Park, and Ormiston Maritime Academy. They will be using them to teach the children how to recycle at home and how to collect recycle food waste to help live more sustainably and help our planet.
Bin manufacturer MGB Plastics supplied the compost bins through the social value element of its contract to supply wheelie bins to households in North East Lincolnshire.
Officers from the Environmental Education team visited the schools to handover the bins. The team is available to deliver presentations and activities around the topics of recycling, litter and looking after the environment. If your school or group would like to hear more, please email them. They also have downloadable activities on the Council’s website at www.nelincs.gov.uk/bins-and-recycling/recycling-education/.
Cllr Stewart Swinburn, portfolio holder for Environment and Transport, said:
“Composting is good for your garden and the planet. From fruit and vegetable peelings to tea bags and grass clippings, about a third of the waste in your household bin can be composted.
“If you think your school or your children’s school would be interested in receiving a free compost bin or recycling bins for lessons, please email CommunityProtection@nelincs.gov.uk and put ‘FAO Education Team – Free Bins’ as the subject line.”
Article and image from NELC.
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