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Waste management

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Eco Schools

The Eco Schools award scheme has been established as part of the Banish Rubbish campaign to work with educational programmes to cover:

  • litter;
  • waste minimisation;
  • energy;
  • water;
  • transport;
  • healthy living;
  • school grounds;
  • global perspective;
  • biodiversity.

Advice and information is available once a school has joined the scheme, which can be especially useful for any improvements to the school environment. Groundwork Medway Swale and the European-funded Interreg IIIA Environmental Stewardship project back the scheme.

Eco Schools (www.eco-schools.org.uk) is a great way to begin or further children's understanding of the environment. All the themes are linked to the national curriculum, the scheme works at a pace suitable for each school and they are supported at all stages. A network of fellow Eco Schools is also available through the website, enabling schools to share best practice.

This is a way to bring together the school community and take a sustainable approach to any improvements on the school grounds, as pupils will be involved with projects from the start.

The scheme has been used as an inventive way of studying a variety of subjects in the National Curriculum including English literature, art, geography and science. It also has several links to the Healthy Schools scheme and is co-ordinated locally by Medway Council. Please visit the international website (www.eco-schools.org) for more information and ideas about the scheme and how it works in other countries. Banish Rubbish logo

For further information contact:
email icon Email : wasteminimisation@medway.gov.uk
Telephone icon Telephone : 01634 333333
Mail icon Write to :

Customer Services
Gun Wharf
Dock Road
Chatham
Kent ME4 4TR

Minicom icon Minicom :

01634 333111


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