If you’ve carried out a waste audit and used the business waste calculator, you should now have a better understanding of the types of waste your educational setting generates and options to recycle more. You’ve hopefully also created a waste action plan, and now it’s time to put it into action! In this step, we’ll look at how to:
Choose the right containers and storage for your waste and recycling
Find the right recycling
Encourage your staff and students to get involved
Covered in this guide
- Containers for your educational establishments waste and recycling
- Where to store your educational establishments rubbish and recycling between collections
- How to choose a recycling service for the education sector
- Recycling service procurement tips for large educational establishments and organisations
- Communicating with your staff and students in the education sector
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Containers for your educational establishments waste and recycling
Providing the right bins and containers for your waste and recycling, and storing them in the right location, is essential for helping your staff, students and visitors separate waste more effectively and increase the amount your educational setting recycles.
4 min readViewWhere to store your educational establishments rubbish and recycling between collections
Most businesses have dedicated areas or compounds where they store their waste containers in between collections. These help to keep your premises tidy, as well as ensuring bins are easily accessible for staff and the waste service provider who empties them. Here’s how to store rubbish and recycling while it’s awaiting collection.
5 min readViewHow to choose a recycling service for the education sector
With your bins and storage ready to go, and an idea of how many collections you’ll need each week, month and year, the next step is to find a provider to collect your recycling on a regular basis. This next section details the type of procurement process you could follow to choose a new provider.
5 min readViewRecycling service procurement tips for large educational establishments and organisations
Whatever the size of your organisation, it’s important to have the service delivered by a company with the right kind of experience. However, larger institutions/organisations with multiple sites and complex operational arrangements have more intensive waste disposal and recycling requirements, making it even more critical that the provider has the capacity and skills to provide the service you want.
5 min readViewCommunicating with your staff and students in the education sector
Internal communication is an important part of making recycling a success in your educational setting. If you completed a waste action plan in Step 2, you’ll find this a useful starting point when it comes to communicating your recycling plans with staff, students and visitors.