Environmental benefits
Recycling at school is an easy step you can take to help the environment in three main ways:
By recycling our used paper we save 187kg of paper going to landfill each week! That’s over 7 tonnes a year, which saves approximately 9 tonnes of CO2 equivalent each year – the same as the emissions from watching a 32’’ TV for 128 years.
Reduce the amount of rubbish sent to landfill
Reusing and recycling items means that less waste has to be buried in the ground in landfill sites, plus we save valuable resources by turning waste into new products! Burying less rubbish means we have to build fewer landfill sites, which frees up another important resource: land.
Save energy and raw materials
Recycling uses less energy than making items from scratch, for example, recycling an aluminium can saves 95% of the energy needed to make a completely new can.
Help tackle climate change
Reducing the energy used to make and transport products means less carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. Recycling also cuts the amounts of methane, another powerful greenhouse gas, which can be given off by biodegradable materials as they rot under pressure in landfill sites.
