Waste Education Strategy for Devon

Educating children is an essential part of Devon’s long term waste management strategy. 

Over the past 8 years Devon has been steadily developing its waste education work and we now have one of the largest waste education programmes in the country, with over 25,000 children involved in assemblies and/or workshops last year (2010/11).

The Waste Education Steering Group (WESG) has drawn up a Waste Education Strategy for Devon.  The aim of the Strategy is to support Devon’s Schools to deliver effective, practical and educational activities promoting the 3Rs in the classroom, playground and wider environment.

The Strategy sets out the following 6 objectives and provides details of actions to achieve each of them:-

 Our Objectives:-

 1)    To enable 100% of Devon schools to recycle or compost four material streams by 2014.

 
 2)    To help Devon schools reduce their waste to landfill by 10% per pupil head by 2014.

 
 3)    To increase pupil’s awareness of the need to reduce, reuse and recycle waste by 2014.

 
4)    To broaden the scope of the strategy to make specific links to the broader sustainable agenda.

 
5)  To update the strategy by 2014 and identify external funding to support 10% of   policy delivery.

 
6)  Maintain accurate and reliable data and disseminate good practice to Devon Educators.

 
You can download a copy of the Devon Waste Education Strategy & Action Plan here