Communicatie-uiting/actie

Paper Usage at School

Katherine MacKenzie

A sub-group of students involved in the Litter & Waste Theme. We researched and took surveys of how much paper was being printed each week and how much paper ended up in our paper recycling bins. We did this by getting younger students to count in their classes over 5 weeks and taking an average across subjects. We put this together with a priced-proposal and sent it to the school management team for their consideration.

  • Welke tips wil je andere Eco-teams geven over communicatie van jullie Eco-Team?: Get in touch with the right people for printing numbers, it took us a long time to get the right people to find the number of sheets of paper we print each week.
  • Wat was het doel van deze communicatie-actie en wie wilde jullie bereiken?: Through this project I have noticed that our school uses a lot of paper for printouts and for notes in general. I have realized that many teachers print out sheets of paper when we only use it to look at the worksheets or just to read texts and then answer the questions in our notebooks. Instead of printing them out for us to write in our notebooks we should minimize our paper usage. I have also noticed that many people throw away their notebooks at the end of the year and I feel like this is a waste of resources because all that paper is not reused, it can be recycled but we still use paper as a one time appliance, which is why something more effective and reusable should be used. I believe that this project is very beneficial and interesting because we are finding ways to be more sustainable as a school and I believe that students should also be more mindful of their paper usage. The project is a great opportunity to find long term solutions to the extensive paper usage that comes with the lifestyle of the school. Overall the printing of worksheets have been limited since the beginning of this project and the end, which is another observation I made, but the problem of notebooks still remains. We sent our proposal to the school management to consider.
  • Hoe hebben jullie dit georganiseerd/met wie?: Fellow Eco-Club students and by talking to the concierge staff to find out about printing numbers.
  • Onderwijstype: Voortgezet onderwijs
  • School: Amsterdam International Community School (AICS)

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