Recycling and Composting Services for Schools
Bath & North East Somerset Council can
offer the following recycling services for schools. By
recycling in school, you can cut your waste disposal bills, help
protect the environment and promote recycling to the pupils.
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Bath & North East Somerset Council offer a variety of
weekly collections to help schools recycle. Since 1 August
2008, a charge for these services has been introduced but please
note that it is much cheaper to recycle than send your waste to
landfill. You can find details of current recycling and waste
collection charges below.
- Green box collection
This is best suited to small schools (usually small primary
schools) that don't produce large amounts of material.
- Paper collection
This collection service is best suited to schools that produce a
large amount of paper. Paper can be collected in clear sacks or
loose in 240 wheelie bins.
- Cardboard collection
Small amounts can be collected packed flat in one box with a pre
paid sticker, or larger amounts stored loose in 660 or 1100 litre
wheeled bins.
- Mini Recycling Centres
These are best suited to large schools (usually secondary schools)
that produce a large amount of material and have external space to
store the wheeled bins.
When looking to set up recycling in school, it is best to decide
which members of staff are going to be responsible for the scheme
and look for opportunities to involve the children.
See Contacts below for who to speak
to about setting up or developing your school recycling
collection.
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Recycling - collection choices and costs
The materials we collect from you for recycling are recycled
into new products saving resources and energy and reducing the
amount of waste we send to landfill.
Internal Recycling Containers
Please note that you can purchase cardboard boxes and/or
reusable bags to help store your paper etc. in school before
transferring it to external containers. Please contact us for
details of current costs.
| PAPER recycling |
Collection container |
Weekly collection cost (exc VAT) |
| 1. |
Clear plastic sacks |
£1 each |
|
| 2. |
240 litre wheelie bins. Put paper loose into these bins.
Please note that you may wish to purchase internal recycling
containers (see above) to help with storing your
paper. |
£2.06 per collection |
|
|
CARDBOARD recycling
|
Collection container |
Weekly collection cost (exc VAT) |
| 1. |
Pre-paid cardboard collection stickers for loose collections
(loose cardboard can be packed flat into one easy to handle
cardboard box or packed into manageable bundles and tied with
string). One pre-paid sticker will then need to be attached to each
separate large box/bundle for collection. |
£1 per label |
| 2. |
660 litre wheeled bin (for storage and collection) |
£3.60 per collection |
| 3. |
1100 litre wheeled bin (for storage and collection) |
£4.11 per collection |
| Green box recycling |
Collection container |
Weekly collection cost |
| For paper and all the other materials collected in the
household
green box collection service i.e. paper, glass bottles and
jars, plastic bottles, aluminium foil, food and drinks cans, Yellow
Pages, spectacles, clothes and shoes etc. (Please note we can't
collect batteries from schools). |
Green box |
£1 per box |
| Mini recycling centre |
Collection container |
Weekly collection cost |
|
Separate bins for
1. Paper,
2. Plastic bottles and food & drinks cans,
3. Glass bottles & jars. |
Set of six 240 litre wheeled bins (available in any
combination to suit your school's requirements). |
£547 per mini recycling centre per
year. |
Waste - collection choices and costs
There are three options on offer for the storage and weekly
collection of waste from your school.
One container will be provided free of charge but you will need
to buy more if you need them. Please contact us if you need prices
for additional bins.
You can order lilac waste sacks from Council Connect on 01225 39
40 41
councilconnect@bathnes.gov.uk
| Collection container |
Cost (exc VAT) |
Width (mm) |
Depth (mm) |
Height (mm) |
| Lilac sacks |
£1.33 per sack (orders under 100)
£1.28 per sack (orders over 100) |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
| 660 litre wheeled bin |
£4.50 per collection |
1265 |
740 |
1320 |
| 1100 litre wheeled bin |
£5.14 per collection |
1270 |
1000 |
1380 |
Paper
We can collect paper from all schools. The main types of
paper we collect are white office paper and envelopes. We can
also collect newspapers, magazines and junk mail. Don't worry about
taking staples out of doucments or windows out of envelopes - they
will come out in the recycling process.
We are unable to take paper such as sugar paper, tissue paper
and brown paper (but brown paper can be collected with your
cardboard).
We usually encourage children to just recycle white office
quality paper in the classrooms as this is easier for them to
understand and reduces the risk of contaminating the paper with
types that we don't accept.
Cans and plastic bottles
We are able to offer some schools recycling facilities for cans
and plastic bottles, either through the green box scheme or through
the Mini Recycling Centres. Please note that the only type of
plastic we collect are bottles. We cannot collect any other plastic
items e.g. yoghurt pots, meat trays, plastic carrier bags etc.
Cardboard
We can collect cardboard and brown paper for recycling from
schools in either a 660 litre or 1100 litre wheeled
bin. For small amounts, we are able to collect
loose cardboard packed flat into one easy to handle cardboard box,
but this must have a pre-paid sticker.
Green box recycling
For schools using the green box scheme, you can put in any of
the materials that you would normally put in your green recycling
box at home in Bath and North East Somerset (except
batteries). For more information, please see
Green Box Recycling.
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We can provide assemblies, activities and promotional
materials to help the children learn more about recycling.
Assemblies are always provided when setting up a new scheme to help
inform the staff and children about the new scheme. They can
also be provided at other times to reinforce or reboost an existing
scheme. Please see Contacts below if
you would like some additional support.
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If you are having problems with your collections or are not
clear what to do next, we can help you. Common problems that
we can help with include:
- Missed collections
- Checking your collection day
- Ordering new boxes and bags
- Refreshing a flagging scheme
- End of term clear outs
- Holiday collections
- Confusion about the service
Please see Contacts below for who to
contact.
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Free compost bins
We can provide schools with free compost bins and a package of
support to help you make the most out of composting at
school. We can provide all of the following:
- Free compost bins
- Ongoing support and visits to help guide you through the
composting process from starting up to using your compost
- Loan of display compost bin
- Composting assembly - particularly for new schools
- Compost competition - follow up to the assembly, particularly
for new schools
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For general enquiries, please contact Council
Connect on 01225 39 40 41 or email councilconnect@bathnes.gov.uk
To start recycling or composting, please
contact Lorinda Coombes on 01225 394157 or email lorinda_coombes@bathnes.gov.uk
For educational support, please contact Sarah
George on 01225 394394 or email sarah_george@bathnes.gov.uk
