This term the Eco Team have been working on a design sprint, manufacture and trial of textile recycling ‘smartbins’. In conjunction with the University of Edinburgh’s Chris Speed and Siobhan Magee, who are researching how to increase donations for Oxfam, the smartbins have been developed to inform staff and pupils at Portobello High School how their donations will help Oxfam with their various projects worldwide, and also will add an incentive to donate, as donations will become an inter house competition with prizes.

Watch our video of our visit to the University of Edinburgh to see how we helped make the smartbins: Oxfam Porty Project.