Pupils at an Ayrshire primary school are on track for a cleaner, greener future after they took deliver of new recycling bins.
Pupils at Netherthird Primary, in Craigens Road, Cumnock, can now keep on top of their recycling commitments with a facility that’s close to hand.
The school’s Eco Committee and the Children and Young People’s Cabinet representatives, Alyssa and Daniel from P7, were looking for new ways to increase the amount of waste their school was recycling.
And they were inspired to do more after attending the Children and Young People’s Climate Change Conference and are currently working hard on a submission for a Clean, Green School Award.
The team spoke to their janitor Mr McCreadie and he felt that recycling bins within the playground would really help.
The children then wrote to Cleaner Communities asking if they could have two new outdoor recycling bins.
Carson wrote: “We would like to recycle more to help the environment”, while Hayleigh wrote: “Can we have two plastic bins please for our playground? The whole school needs to do more the save the environment.”
Cleaner Communities were delighted to help, providing three recycling trolley stacks.
The team delivered the new bins and held a question and answer session with the P3/4 children in the playground.
Councillor Claire Leitch said: “It feels like there is real momentum at the moment to tackle climate change, so I was delighted to hear that Netherthird Primary’s Eco Committee were focused on making positive change within their school.
“They were already recycling inside, so an important step was making recycling available outside.
“Cleaner Communities have provided recycling trollies to schools across East Ayrshire to help increase the amount of waste that is recycled by our children and young people.
“What we want is for recycling to become second nature and part of everyday life whether you are at home, work or out and about in our communities.
“We want as much waste as possible, and that includes food waste, to be recycled, not sent to landfill.
“We all have to do our bit.”
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