"Reduce Cafeteria Waste Project

Project description. In the project "Reduce Cafeteria Waste" the students of the 6V form will
conduct a waste audit of the student dining hall answering the next questions: What is being
thrown out and why? If it is food that went bad, was it incorrectly dated or not rotated? Are
certain items given in too large a portion? What waste reduction and waste diversion practices
are already in place?
The answers to these questions will guide the development of a plan for waste reduction and cost
savings.
Final product. Students will create a presentation and some posters to encourage the elementary
students to eat their food and simple reminders like take only one napkin.
Presentation. Students will present their final project at the lessons of English, class hours,
annual school conference. The program will be uploaded at the school site.
Audience. Elementary and middle school students, parents.
Project Template
1. Project Title: "Reduce Cafeteria Waste"
2. Project idea: All the elementary school pupils and especially those from poor
and/or large families studying at gymnasium are provided with free food at the lyceum. Students
that are not included in the list of those who can eat for free can still eat in the canteen, but have
to pay for food. Also they are allowed to bring their lunches from home. In spite of the fact that
the products offered by canteen are of high cost, and, n general, the student think of the food
offered by the school canteen as good or acceptable, the canteen produces a lot of waste, in the
form of metal, plastic, paper and even food. Besides, classrooms often generate a lot of waste,
especially in the form of paper. If it's not reused or recycled, this waste leads to pollution.
So students play the role of community activists to solve the problem of waste in the lyceum.
3. Driving Question: How can we convince the students to waste less?
4. Content skills and standards: Civics positive attitude toward environment; Literacy writing
persuasive essays; Vocabulary - waste, management, systems, rubbish, green, plastic, environment, global
warming, composting, food scraps, data, propose, suggest, encourage; IT making videos, PPT
presentations.
5. Collaborative Final Product: videos, posters, PPT presentation, management system design
6. Local & Global Audience: elementary and middle students, parents, teachers, school
administration.

7. Goals:

1) to raise the awareness of the waste we generate.

2) to design a system that will help reduce our schools waste.
3) to choose an engaging way to present the project to the audience.
4) to develop slogans for the campaign
8. Procedure:
Stage

What?

How?

When?

Who will
be
involved?

What
resources/
materials
will be
necessary
?

Stage
1

1) Primary
survey
2) A site tour
of
the school is
conducted,
including
classrooms,
food
preparation
and serving
areas.
3) Interview
of a canteen
manager
4)
Announceme
nt about
waste audit
at school.
5) Saving the
garbage from
their
classroom
for one day.

1) Survey about the

usage of the canteen
and satisfaction with
the canteen.
2)Visual look at
materials in
the canteen and the
school waste

Lunch breaks

Elementary
students100
Gymnasiu
m students50
Lyceum
students
-50

Survey
templates

Stage
2

Contacting
local
authorities

At the
beginning of
the campaign.

Team
representative

Elaboration
of the
measures

Public
administrat
ion
representati
ves
Audit team

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Stage
3

Contacting local
authorities to obtain
information on the
recyclables collected
in the city.
Campaign plan
elaboration.

Audit team

Stage

Project

1)Class teams sort the

A special day

Announce
ments
about the
campaign
(paper,
lyceum
site).
1)Parent

At the
beginning of
the campaign.

Class

Who will be
responsible
from the
team to
organize and
coordinate
this stage?
A school
manager
Canteen
manager
Volunteer
students from
all the classes

Student

implementati
on

Stage
5

Evaluation

Stage
6

Finalities

garbage into
recyclables and nonrecyclables, weigh,
write an analysis
2) Visual food waste
audit in the canteen
and creating graphs.
3)Creating posters
about food waste,
attitudes towards
Reducing, Reusing,
Recycling and
Rotting waste.
4)Creating slogans
for the canteen.
5) Publishing a
booklet with tips to
reduce waste at
lunch, paper waste.
6) Conducting a trade
day for toys, books,
and outgrown
clothing,
1)Conducting a
survey of school
wide attitudes
towards Reducing,
Reusing, Recycling
and Rotting waste
after the project
implementation.
2) Discussing,
analyzing, and
brainstorming plans
to improve
participation.
1)Making a video
reporting about the
project
implementation.
2)Creating a PPT
presentation for the
conference.
3) Publishing the
information about the
project
implementation and its
results at the teachers
blog, lyceum site.

at the end of
the campaign
A daily visual
food waste
audit for a
month

teams
Audit team

permissio
n slip
2)Plastic
garbage
bags for
each of
the classes
3)Plastic
gloves for
the
students
3)A Waste
Audit
chart
4) blank
paper,
Whatman
paper, felttip pens,
markers

coordinators
Parents
Lyceum
managers

At the end of
the campaign

Audit team

Survey
templates

Audit team

During/ At the
end of the
campaign

Audit team

Internet
access

Audit team
Parents
Lyceum
managers