Waste Management Objectives

The objectives of a waste management plan and communication plan

To create awareness among educators, learners, their families and the community.

To enable teachers to create awareness of the cause and effect of poor waste management and the benefits of an integrated waste management plan.

To create environmental tools that enhance quality of life.

To assist schools with waste development plans and waste minimisation projects.

Waste management plan and communication plan.

If you’re passionate about the environment and waste management in your school’s waste output, your first must understand how the school will generate the waste and start looking at alternatives for waste management. Once you have a good understanding

Preparation

Set a school day for which the audit will take place. Inform all the stakeholders of the audit that will take place. A risk assessment must be conducted before audit can commence – Put all the necessary measures in place that may cause danger during the audit. Write a letter to inform the parents about the activities of the assessment and kindly request if can provide the children with old clothes to wear during the audit and some parents parents may like to volunteer. One day’s school waste must be saved overnight and clearly labelled so that the sauce can be identified.

The audit

Thoroughly explain all the health and safety matters to the students involved in the audit. Gloves should be worn at all times and students should call an adult if they see any sharp dangerous objects.

Bags must be weighed and result recorded

Divide learners into teams, the group must have the following instruments (recording sheet, pencil and meter scale).

Rubbish must be emptied and classified into waste.

Get each group to empty the contents of one bag of rubbish at a time onto the ground sheet and sort it into the different types of waste shown on a recording

Recycling not only saves resources but also reduces the environmental impact of manufacturing new products, and the impact of waste at landfills.

Let’s take a look at what’s involved in setting up your school’s recycling centre:

What to Recycle

Use the results of your waste audit to determine which waste streams you’re going to recycle. The success of your centre will, to a large extent, depend on the access you have to the various waste streams. If, for example, your audit showed that your school does not throw away much glass, then you will need to either leave glass out of your recycling plans, or look to outside sources to bring glass into the centre.

Here are some ways to make sure that you are benefitting from all the waste that is being generated in the school:

Collecting from Internal Recycling Points

Decide who will be most suitable to empty materials from your internal recycling containers and deliver them to your recycling centres. For example, could students get involved on a rotational basis? Think about any equipment that students or other “internal collectors” will need and how often you would want them to