Guidance for
Education
Step 5

Monitoring recycling services in educational establishments

Once you have your recycling set up and you’ve got your staff and students on board, it’s worth regularly monitoring and reviewing how it’s going. By doing so, you can share successes with your staff, students and visitors and look out for opportunities to improve.

In this step, we’ll look at how to:

  • Monitor your recycling performance

  • Seek feedback from your staff and students

  • Manage your waste contract

  • Make improvements to your recycling efforts

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  • Monitoring recycling performance in the education sector

    There are a number of things you can do to work out how successful your recycling efforts are.

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  • Get feedback from your staff and students

    To understand how well your new recycling service is working for your educational setting, it’s useful to obtain feedback from your staff and students across their different roles and departments, as well as facilities staff such as porters, caterers, caretakers and cleaners.

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  • Managing your educational establishments recycling and waste contract

    Staying in touch with your waste service provider is an important part of ensuring your recycling service is going to plan. This is often referred to as contract management.

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  • Making improvements to your educational establishments recycling service

    As you start to recycle more, the amount of general waste you produce should also reduce. This means you should be able to reduce your number of general waste bins, or have them emptied less often. This could save you money!

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