Recycling Petition to Encourage Recycling in Schools

Les Wallace has initiated an online petition to make recycling facilities in Scottish schools mandatory. Please click on the link to access the petition:

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/GettingInvolved/Petitions/playgroundrecycling

Petition comment:

"After more than twenty years since kerbside recycling began in earnest in Scotland we are STILL NOT ensuring that children are being taught about reducing waste and being encouraged to recycle effectively. Investment in domestic recycling schemes and the success of workplace waste reduction is suffering badly because of this. It also means that anti litter work is compromised as recycling is almost certainly a better method of preventing litter than traditional anti litter work.

There are no basic mandatory requirements for how well waste reduction is taught or practiced. As a basic
requirement ALL school children should have recycling facilities in their playgrounds. We also need a national survey on how well reduce, reuse, recycle is taught and practiced in schools to ensure that best practice becomes standard practice."