Report to: ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES SCRUTINY COMMITTEE

Date: 10th October 2007

Report of: Director of Environmental Services Report No: ESSC/08/07

Contact Officer: Daniela Wesenberg Tele No: 33 8382

Report Title: Recycling in Schools

Non Confidential: (Non-Confidential) This report does not contain information which warrants its consideration in the absence of the press or members of the public

Purpose: This report provides detailed information on Councils Recycling in Schools

Recommendations: The implementation of Recycling in Schools is carried forward so that all schools receive recycling facilities of glass, cans, plastic bottles and paper and card.

Decision:

Background Doc(s):

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1. Introduction

This report provides detailed information on Bolton Councils Recycling in Schools

2. Background

Since September 2006 many schools with a commercial waste contract have been visited across Bolton and been provided with collections of glass, cans and plastic bottles and also given advice on other items that can be recycled at schools such as paper, composting, mobile phones and textiles. Schools are also encouraged to reduce, reuse and recycle as much of there waste as possible. Schools are also advised of the Eco- schools programme. Once recycling containers are implemented into the school, this is then followed with a recycling talk to the school assembly/ies and also where requested talks to individual classes. The school talk, involves interaction with the children such as “What happen to your rubbish?” both at home and in school and what rubbish can be recycled into. K9 the recycling Dog is then introduced and the children help K9 sort out his rubbish into what can be recycled.

3. Performance Information Recycling in School has been very popular and to date schools have contacted the Recycling officers for recycling. Since starting Recycling in Schools in September 2006, 53 schools are now recycling glass, cans, plastic bottles and paper (Table 1) and 37 assemblies have been attended. Eco schools have also increased from 8 to 44 schools. 3 schools have also gained there Green flag.

Even though schools are recycling, the tonnage collected is having little impact on the overall recycling rate (Table 2).

All schools have now been broken down into wards, to see which schools are recycling and in which wards need to be targeted. (Table 3and Table 4)

Table 1: Schools Recycling

Number of Schools in Bolton 133 Number of Schools with a Trade Waste Contract 120 Number of Schools Collecting Glass, Cans and Plastics 53 Number of Schools Collecting Paper 83 Number of Schools Composting 28 Number of School Assemblies’ attended 37 Eco Schools 44

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Reported Table 2: Impact of Waste - Schools waste on Schools Schools overall recycling rate Reported Waste Waste Household Waste Collected 2006/07 68,606.58 68,606.58 68,606.58

Paper 10,408.82 193.80 10,215.02

Cardboard & Paper 372.18 0.00 372.18

Green Bin 11,462.76 0.00 11,462.76 Leaves 214.20 0.00 214.20

Green Box 7,278.04 37.03 7,241.01 Other Recycling 1,713.63 0.00 1,713.63

Bulky Waste 8,143.27 0.00 8,143.27 Total Recycling 108,199.49 68,837.41 107,968.66 Combined Recycling Rate 29.07% 0.34% 28.91% Please note figures in red the tonnages are only estimates

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Table 3: Schools Recycling in each Ward

Ward No. of Number of Number of Number of Eco- Schools Schools Schools Schools School Commercial Recycling Paper Co-Mingled Waste Contract Astley Bridge Ward 7 6 7 3 4 Blackrod Ward 2 1 0 0 1 Bradshaw Ward 5 5 3 3 3 Breightmet Ward 6 4 2 0 1 Bromley Cross Ward 7 6 6 3 3 Crompton Ward 6 6 3 3 1 Farnworth Ward 8 7 4 2 1 Great Lever Ward 8 8 3 2 3 Halliwell Ward 8 6 6 3 3 Harper Green Ward 6 6 4 3 1 Heaton and Lostock Ward 11 10 5 4 6 Horwich and Blackrod Ward 5 5 5 4 2 Horwich North East Ward 6 5 4 3 3 Hulton Ward 3 3 2 1 1 Kearsley Ward 9 9 3 3 2 Little Lever and Darcy Lever Ward 8 8 5 5 2 Rumworth Ward 7 6 6 3 0 Ward 6 5 4 2 1 Tonge with the Haulgh Ward 4 3 1 1 1 Westhougton North and Chew Moor Ward 6 6 6 2 3 Westhoughton South Ward 5 5 4 3 2 Totals 133 120 83 53 44

% of Schools Recycling Paper 69.17% % of Schools Recycling Co-Mingled 44.17%

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Table 4: Schools Recycling in Each Ward

Trade Co- Paper Eco School Green Ward School Waste Mingled Bronze Silver Collection Registered Flag Contract Collected

High Lawn Primary School Yes Yes Holy Infant and St Anthony Yes Yes Yes Yes Feb-06 No No RC Primary School Sharples Primary School Yes Yes Yes Astley Bridge: Specialist Yes Yes Schools 7 Science College May- Starting Point Yes Yes Yes Yes May-07 No 07 The Oaks Primary School Yes Yes Yes No No No Thornleigh Salesian College No Yes Yes No No No Blackrod Forward Centre Yes No No No Ward: St Joseph's RC High School No No No Yes No No No Schools 2 and Sports College Hardy Mill Primary School Yes No Harwood Meadows Primary Yes Yes Yes Yes School Bradshaw St Brendan's RC Primary Ward: Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No School, Harwood, Bolton Schools 5 St Maxentius C of E Primary Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No School Top o'th' Brow Primary School Yes No Blackshaw Primary School Yes No Yes No No No Crompton Fold Primary School No Yes Breightmet Leverhulme Primary School Yes Ward: Red Lane Primary School Yes No Schools 6 SS Osmund and Andrew RC Yes No Primary School Withins School No Yes Bromley Cross Canon Slade C of E School No Yes Ward: Schools Eagley Infant School Yes Yes Page 5 of 11

7 Eagley Junior School Yes Yes Yes Egerton Primary School Yes Yes Yes St John the Evangelist RC Primary School, Bromley Yes No Cross, Bolton Turton High School Media Arts Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No College Walmsley C of E Primary Yes Yes Yes Yes Oct-05 No No School Firwood School Yes Yes Madrasatul Imam Muhammad Yes No Zakariya St Columba's RC Primary Yes No Yes Yes No No No Crompton School Ward: St Paul's C of E Primary Schools 6 Yes Yes Yes School, Astley Bridge St Thomas C of E Primary Yes No School, Halliwell The Valley Community School Yes Yes Yes All Saints C of E Primary Yes No School Fixed Exclusion Unit Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Specialist Arts College Our Lady of Lourdes RC May- Farnworth Yes Yes Yes Yes No Ward: Primary School 07 Schools 8 Plodder Lane Primary School Yes No Queensbridge Primary School Yes No St James C of E Primary Yes No School, Farnworth St James's CE Secondary No Yes School and Sports College Bishop Bridgeman C of E Yes Yes Great Lever Primary School Ward: Clarendon Primary School Yes No Schools 8 Lord's Independent School Yes No Page 6 of 11

SS Peter and Paul RC Primary Yes School SS Simon and Jude C of E Yes No Primary School, Bolton St Michael's C of E Primary Yes Yes Yes Yes Oct-06 No No School, Great Lever St Peter and St Paul RC Dec- Yes No Yes No No Primary School 05 St William of York RC Primary Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No School Boys' Division No Yes Yes Bolton School Girls' Division No Yes Yes Brownlow Fold Primary School Yes Yes Yes Gaskell Primary School Yes Yes Yes Halliwell Gilnow Primary School Yes Yes Yes Ward: Oxford Grove Primary School Yes Yes Yes Schools 8 St Joseph's RC Primary Yes No School, Halliwell, Bolton St Matthew's C of E Primary Yes No School, Bolton Cherry Tree Primary School Yes Yes Yes Green Fold School Yes No Harper Green Hayward School Yes No Ward: Highfield Primary School Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Schools 6 Lever Edge Primary School Yes Yes Yes Mount St Joseph: Business & Yes Yes No Enterprise College Beaumont Primary School Yes No Yes No No No Bolton Schools Music Centre Yes Yes Yes Clevelands Day Preparatory No No Heaton and School Lostock Ward: Yes Yes Yes Schools 11 Ladybridge Primary School Yes No Yes No No No Lostock Primary School Yes Yes Yes Yes Jul-07 Markland Hill Primary School Yes No Yes No No No Rumworth School Yes Yes Page 7 of 11

St Bernard's RC Primary Yes No School, Bolton St Mary's C of E Primary Yes Yes Yes Yes May-07 No No School, Deane St Thomas of Canterbury RC Jan- Yes No Yes Sep-05 No School 06 Blackrod Anglican/Methodist Yes Yes Yes Primary School Blackrod Primary School Yes Yes Yes Horwich and Chorley New Road Primary Mar- Blackrod Yes Yes Yes Yes Feb-07 No School 07 Ward: Scot Lane End C of E Primary Schools 5 Yes Yes School, Blackrod St Catherine's C E Primary Yes Yes Yes Yes School Claypool Primary School Yes Yes Yes Horwich Parish C of E Primary Yes No School Horwich North Lever Park School Yes No Yes Yes No No No East Ward: Lord Street Primary School Yes Yes Yes No No No Schools 6 Rivington and Blackrod High No Yes School Sep- May- St Mary's RC Primary School Yes Yes Yes Yes Sep-06 06 07 Heathfield Primary School Yes Yes St Andrew's C of E Primary Hulton Ward: Yes No School, Over Hulton Schools 3 St Bede C of E Primary Jun- Yes Yes Yes Yes Jan-06 No School, Morris Green 06 George Tomlinson School Yes Yes Yes Kearsley West Primary School Yes No Prestolee Primary School Yes No Kearsley Spindle Point Primary School Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Ward: St Gregory's RC Primary Schools 9 Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No School, Farnworth, Bolton St John C of E Primary Yes No School, Kearsley Page 8 of 11

St Peter's C of E Primary Yes No School St Saviour C of E Primary Yes No School, Ringley St Stephen's C of E Primary Yes No School Bowness Primary School Yes Yes Yes Ladywood School Yes No Specialist Yes Yes Yes Yes Language College Little Lever Masefield Primary School Yes No and Darcy Mytham Primary School Yes Yes Yes Lever Ward: St Matthew's C of E Primary Yes Yes Schools 8 School, Little Lever St Stephen and All Martyrs' C Yes No Yes of E School, Lever Bridge St Teresa's RC Primary Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No School, Little Lever, Bolton Al Jamiah Al Islamiyyah No No Bolton Muslim Girls' School Yes Yes Yes Brandwood Primary School Yes Yes Rumworth Haslam Park Primary School Yes Yes Ward: Schools 7 Pikes Lane Primary School Yes Yes Yes St Ethelbert's RC Primary Yes Yes Yes School Sunning Hill Primary School Yes Yes Church Road Primary School Yes No Devonshire Road Primary Yes No School Johnson Fold Community Smithills Yes Yes Yes No No No Ward: Primary School Schools 6 No Yes St Peter's Smithills Dean C of Yes Yes Yes E Primary School Thomasson Memorial School Yes Yes Yes Tonge with Bolton Parish Church C of E May- Yes Yes Yes Yes Jun-07 No The Haulgh Primary School Page 9 of 11 07

Ward: Castle Hill Primary School No No Schools 4 Moorgate Primary School Yes No No Tonge Moor Primary School Yes No Sacred Heart RC Primary Yes Yes Yes No No No School St Thomas C of E Primary Feb- Yes Yes Yes Yes Mar-06 No Westhoughton School 07 North and Mar 06 Chew Moor The Gates Primary School Yes Yes Yes Yes - Nov No No Ward: 06 Schools 6 Washacre Primary School Yes Yes Yes Yes Specialist Technology Westhoughton Primary School Yes Yes Compass Centre West Yes Yes Yes May- Eatock Primary School Yes Yes Yes Yes No No 06 Westhoughton St George's C of E Primary Yes Yes South Ward: School Schools 5 St James C of E Primary Yes Yes Yes Yes Dec-06 No No School, Daisy Hill Westhoughton Parochial C of Yes No E Primary School

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4. Recommendations

The Environmental Services Scrutiny Committee are asked to note the report shared at the Cleaner Safer Greener Policy Development Group 3rd October at which the following was recommended:- note the position in relation to recycling in schools and to comment on the view that all schools that currently receive a Paper collection from Paperchase are contacted between now and December to be advised that Bolton Council will be collecting Paper and Cardboard every two weeks from the New Year. All schools will have to be provided with a suitable collection container before the new service is implemented. All schools which currently have a paper collection will also be advised of the collection of glass, cans and plastic bottles.

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