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The Bellville Zero Waste Schools project is a replicable, scalable waste education project that changes waste behaviours within schools, enabling them to save money and reduce their waste footprint, towards a zero-waste environment.

Landfills in South Africa are close to full capacity. Schools are culprits as much as businesses and individual homes. They generate significant waste every month, much of which can be recycled, composted or upcycled into new products. Entrenched mindsets reinforce habitual ‘throwing away’ rather than a culture of reducing, reusing and recycling waste. This approach absolves the individual responsibility of teachers and learners for their own waste footprints.

Waste removal also costs money, through municipal waste disposal costs. This is valuable revenue that could be better applied to developing educational standards to build future leaders. Schools have an additional responsibility to lead by example within their own circle of influence and within the broader community.

The Bellville Zero Waste Schools project takes a systems-based approach to providing schools with a sustainable, cost-effective solution to reducing costs, reducing waste and recycling more. The project equips schools with a toolkit to influence the curriculum, and also replaces existing waste infrastructure with recycling-focused infrastructure, such as bins, EcoBrick stations and composting and recycling depots. It is a simple solution designed to make entrench a new zero-waste mindset and changed behaviours into the school's culture.