09 June 2010

Viewing platform at landfill site to promote recycling in children
A new viewing platform was positioned at a Gloucestershire landfill site to encourage schoolchildren to recycling.

The lookout, a city council initiative, has been placed at the Wingmoor Farm with the notion that children can see the devastating effects of burying rubbish underground. School groups were the ideal audience when the platform was built, but the landfill will also open up the viewing area to other educational tours.

Visits to the lookout will require advance booking, and aim to promote green education and awareness about the negative effects of sending waste to landfills.

Councillor Stan Waddington, cabinet member for waste, stated that it was vital for youngsters to identify with where their waste is going when it is not composted or recycled. He added that the disgusting view from the lookout would hopefully discourage young people from being wasteful.

Paul Lailey, of Cranham Church of England Primary School, said that talking about it the classroom was one thing, but being able to see the large scale of it at a landfill site has more of an impact. He added that as an educator, it was important for children to have real life experiences with the ideas they learn at school in the classroom.

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