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30/09/2009 - A Happy Bin visits primary schools to help pupils reduce their waste

The Happy Bin project will be visiting 19 schools across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to help pupils learn how they can do their bit to help the planet by reducing their waste.

The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Waste Partnership, with help of the joint funding from Cambridgeshire County Council and Donarbon Ltd. of Waterbeach, are once again bringing the Happy Bin project to local schools. 

It follows the success of last year when 10 primary schools across the county took part in the Happy Bin project and managed to reduce their waste by up to 53% during the six weeks that followed the project. 

The Happy Bin project is all about making environmental education fun and engaging for children through a range of activities, including puppet shows and kick-starting a competition between schools across the county to beat that waste mountain. Through these activities children are encouraged to learn why we need to reduce our waste and more importantly, what they can do to cut the amount they throw away.  

The Happy Bin will visit a number of schools across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough between October 5 -16. The visits will include three schools in both Fenland and East Cambridgeshire, four in Huntingdonshire, South Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, and one in Cambridge City.  

Councillor Peter Murphy from the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Waste Partnership said:

“We hope to repeat the amazing success of the Happy Bin project last year, and look forward to seeing further schools inspired to work towards halving their waste. It is important that we all do our bit and to see young children achieving so much is an inspiration for us all.”

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