{"id":8165,"date":"2025-02-07T16:44:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T16:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/?p=8165"},"modified":"2025-02-07T16:44:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T16:44:55","slug":"eac-recycling-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/2025\/02\/07\/eac-recycling-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"EAC Recycling Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>East Ayrshire Recycling \u2013 visit to Catrine Primary School <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday we had 2 people from East Ayrshire Recycling come in to the school to talk about recycling and how we can improve on helping to recycle more.<\/p>\n<p>Brian and Jordan were our 2 community waste officers who came in to the school. Jordan talked to primary 5, 6 and 7 about everything that we can do to help improve recycling:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>what goes in which box of the recycling trolley<\/li>\n<li>what vehicle collects the waste and much more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We have the Romaquip Recycling Vehicle that collects our recycling and food waste:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the 1<sup>st<\/sup> compartment is for plastic and cans<\/li>\n<li>the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> is for mixed paper and card<\/li>\n<li>the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> is for food waste<\/li>\n<li>the 4<sup>th<\/sup> is for glass 1<\/li>\n<li>the 5<sup>th<\/sup> is for coffee pods, electrical items, clothes and textiles<\/li>\n<li>the 6<sup>th<\/sup> is for glass 2<\/li>\n<li>the 7<sup>th<\/sup> is for paper and cardboard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We learned about food waste and what you <strong>can<\/strong> and <strong>can\u2019t<\/strong> put in your caddy\u2026<\/p>\n<p>You <strong>can<\/strong> put in dry food, out of date stuff, eggshells, bones, tea bags and coffee grounds.<\/p>\n<p>You <strong>can\u2019t<\/strong> put in liquids, bags or pet waste.<\/p>\n<p>We also learned about the bio capital in Cumbernauld, which is where all the food waste gets processed.\u00a0 Did you know that 60 to 200,000 kgs of food waste gets processed every week?<\/p>\n<p>There is also a food waste sniff test. We learned what goes in which parts of the recycling trolleys that we use at home:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>paper and cardboard &#8211; blue box<\/li>\n<li>plastic and cans &#8211; red box<\/li>\n<li>mixed glass &#8211; grey box<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can also sit out small electrical items (WEEE) which stands for Waste Electrical Electronic Equipment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fun facts<\/strong>\u2026 did you know that 1 x full food caddy can make 8 slices of toast and 2 x full food caddies can power a cinema for a whole movie! Also, 1 x recycled aluminium can can power your TV for 3 hours!<\/p>\n<p>We learned a lot during this visit and we would like to thank Jordan and Brian for coming to our school.<\/p>\n<p>Report written, and visit arranged, by Alfie in P6<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/catrinepsmain2019\/uploads\/sites\/15150\/2025\/02\/07164246\/12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8167\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/2025\/02\/07\/eac-recycling-visit\/attachment\/12\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/catrinepsmain2019\/uploads\/sites\/15150\/2025\/02\/07164246\/12.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"718,539\" 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=\"12\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/catrinepsmain2019\/uploads\/sites\/15150\/2025\/02\/07164246\/12-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/catrinepsmain2019\/uploads\/sites\/15150\/2025\/02\/07164246\/12.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8167\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/catrinepsmain2019\/uploads\/sites\/15150\/2025\/02\/07164246\/12-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/catrinepsmain2019\/uploads\/sites\/15150\/2025\/02\/07164246\/12-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/catrinepsmain2019\/uploads\/sites\/15150\/2025\/02\/07164246\/12.jpg 718w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East Ayrshire Recycling \u2013 visit to Catrine Primary School On Wednesday we had 2 people from East Ayrshire Recycling come in to the school to talk about recycling and how we can improve on helping to recycle more. Brian and Jordan were our 2 community waste officers who came in to the school. Jordan talked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/2025\/02\/07\/eac-recycling-visit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EAC Recycling Visit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9607,"featured_media":8036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/public\/catrinepsmain2019\/uploads\/sites\/15150\/2025\/01\/23120124\/Screenshot-2024-03-26-140501-1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8168,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165\/revisions\/8168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/catrinepsmain2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}