Eco-Curriculars at Knox Academy

At Knox Academy, we value the environment in our local community and in the wider world. We feel that it is important for young people to engage with environmental issues, which have an impact on our present and undoubtedly on our future. For this reason, there are two environmental clubs at Knox Academy in which students can get involved: the Eco-Committee and the Green Team.

The Eco-Committee is a student and staff group which works to implement positive environmental changes within Knox Academy and the school community. The committee meets once a week on Tuesdays at lunch time in Miss Laudi's room (T1.2) to organise environmental initiatives like awareness campaigns, donation drives, and our ever popular Eco-Week.

The Green Team is Knox Academy's recycling club and we meet every Wednesday at lunch time in Miss Laudi's room (T1.2). We get together once a week to empty recycling from classrooms around the school and we work on other projects throughout the year too. We have an amazing group of students in S1-S4 who are already involved and we always welcome new members!

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For further information or if you would like to contribute to these groups, please contact Miss Laudi.

Environment News

ECO-WEEK EVENT 1: BUY A BAMBOO TOOTH BRUSH
Published: Sun 3 Mar 2019

ECO-WEEK - Knox Academy's annual week dedicated to raising awareness about environmental issues and encouraging the school community to embrace more sustainable practices - is NEXT WEEK! Yes, March 11-15 is Eco-Week and the Eco-Committee has planned SO MANY events for Knox students and staff! Keep an eye out on the bulletin and our twitter account for all the news! Here's our first event...

Our first event is bamboo tooth brush sales! After conducting an online survey with registration classes, the Eco-Committee found that students and staff were interested in buying eco-friendly toothbrushes. We'll be selling bamboo toothbrushes in the social area during lunch times on Wednesday 13 March and Thursday 14 March. And here's the best part - they're ONLY £2 each! That's an absolute steal for a toothbrush that uses no plastic whatsoever! You won't find that low price for a bamboo toothbrush anywhere else! The bamboo is pure and vegan, grown without fertilizers or pesticides, the bamboo is compostable, 100% biodegradable, and the bristles are made of BPA Free biodegradable nylon. These really are the most eco-friendly option for your teeth! We have a limited amount of tooth brushes with 3 types of bristles: soft, medium, and firm. If you'd like to pre-order your bamboo toothbrush to ensure that you get your preferred bristle type, please bring £2 to Miss Laudi this week and let her know which type you'd like. You can then collect your fancy new bamboo toothbrush during Eco-Week! Alternatively, buy your toothbrush during Eco-Week and if you'd like to buy some for your family and friends, we encourage that too!

ECO-TIP 17: DON'T WASTE FOOD
Published: Thu 21 Feb 2019

Food waste is a problem! When you buy or cook food only to throw some of it away, this impacts our environment in many ways:

  1. Food waste generates greenhouse gasses. In landfills, food is broken down by bacteria that produce methane, a gas which is contributing to the warming of our climate. Also, preventing food waste means we can conserve limited landfill space.
  2. It's estimated that about 18 million tonnes of food goes to landfill ANNUALLY in the UK. That's wasted money that people are spending! The key is to only buy as much as you need. By being smarter with food purchases and by eating everything, a family of four could save as much as £70 each month.
  3. Food requires a lot of resources to grow and transport. Many of the fruits and vegetables that we have here in the UK are not even grown here and they are imported from other countries. This means that we're consuming fuel in trucks and planes to transport food, but it all goes to waste if we're not actually eating the food. Plus, growing crops requires a lot of resources like energy and water too, which gets wasted along with the food if it's not eaten.
  4. Thousands of people around the world don't have enough food to eat on a daily basis. We should be preserving the food that we are so lucky to have!

Moral of the story: don't waste food!

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