{"id":4310,"date":"2026-02-25T10:38:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/?p=4310"},"modified":"2026-02-25T11:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T11:10:14","slug":"4310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/2026\/02\/25\/4310\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinnae Forget Your Caddy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A message from our Eco Community Group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/839\/2026\/02\/25110914\/Dinnae-Forget-your-caddy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4313\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/2026\/02\/25\/4310\/dinnae-forget-your-caddy\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/839\/2026\/02\/25110914\/Dinnae-Forget-your-caddy.png\" data-orig-size=\"475,547\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dinnae Forget your caddy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/839\/2026\/02\/25110914\/Dinnae-Forget-your-caddy-261x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/839\/2026\/02\/25110914\/Dinnae-Forget-your-caddy.png\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4313\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/839\/2026\/02\/25110914\/Dinnae-Forget-your-caddy-261x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/839\/2026\/02\/25110914\/Dinnae-Forget-your-caddy-261x300.png 261w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/uploads\/sites\/839\/2026\/02\/25110914\/Dinnae-Forget-your-caddy.png 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><strong>Good morning Parents \/ Carers<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Please find attached this document from East Ayrshire about &#8216;Dinnae forget your Caddy!&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>It&#8217;s an eco initiative aimed at improving recycling rates.\u00a0 We have been asked to remind people about the initiative and encourage any interested families to sign up.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Thank you,\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Mr C. McAughtrie and Eco Community Group<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"x_x_Signature\">\n<div><strong>Galston Primary School<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Dear parents\/carers,<\/p>\n<p><em>Did you know?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>69% of our food waste here in East Ayrshire is being put in our household waste bin instead of our food recycling bin.<\/p>\n<p>We are delighted to advise that your child\u2019s school will be participating in East Ayrshire\u2019s Food Recycling Initiative \u2018Dinnae forget your Caddy!\u2019\u00a0 The aim of the programme is to raise awareness of the food items that can be recycled and encourage more families across our community to recycle their food waste at home between February and June 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><strong><u>How it works<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Participation in this programme will encourage all our young people and families to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Learn about the importance of recycling our food waste (click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk\/Clean-Green-East-Ayrshire\/Climate-change-strategy\/Waste\/Food-waste.aspx\">here<\/a> to find out more)<\/li>\n<li>Learn how to recycle food waste here in East Ayrshire \u2013 (click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk\/Housing\/RubbishAndRecycling\/Your-bins-and-containers\/FoodWasteBins.aspx\">here<\/a> to find out more)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>What we would like you do:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose a name for your family\u2019s kerbside caddy. Write your chosen name on the lid\/front of your kerbside caddy<\/li>\n<li>Let us know the name of your caddy by registering it<\/li>\n<li>Recycle your food waste at home, present your caddy for collection each week and enter your school recycling monthly prize draw \u2013 click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk\/Housing\/RubbishAndRecycling\/Collection-days\/ViewYourRecyclingCalendar.aspx\">here<\/a> to find out when your caddy collection day is<\/li>\n<li>Can you share your knowledge and encourage anyone else to recycle their food waste too and help to raise your <em>Community Caddy Count?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*** To request a kitchen and\/or kerbside caddy, please email <a href=\"mailto:waste@east-ayrshire.gov.uk\">waste@east-ayrshire.gov.uk<\/a> ***<\/p>\n<p>Below you can see the highest percentage of caddies that have been presented for collection in your area. This is your Week 1 <em>Community Caddy Count.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We will begin monitoring the number of food caddies presented for collection from <strong>Monday 2nd February<\/strong> and continue this throughout term 3 and 4.<\/p>\n<p>In mid- June we will again share the highest percentage of caddies that have been presented for collection in your area. This is your <em>Week 15<\/em> Community Caddy Count.<\/p>\n<p>Can you recycle your food waste each week and encourage others to do the same to help raise your Community Caddy Count?<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to keeping you updated on our progress throughout the year and thank you in advance for supporting <strong><em>Dinnae forget your Caddy!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A message from our Eco Community Group. Good morning Parents \/ Carers Please find attached this document from East Ayrshire about &#8216;Dinnae forget your Caddy!&#8217;\u00a0 It&#8217;s an eco initiative aimed at improving recycling rates.\u00a0 We have been asked to remind people about the initiative and encourage any interested families to sign up. Thank you,\u00a0 Mr &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/2026\/02\/25\/4310\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dinnae Forget Your Caddy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4314,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4310\/revisions\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/GalstonPrimarySchool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}