Waste Watch
Waste Watch is a UK environmental charity inspiring and helping people to live more and waste less. Waste Watch shows what we can do to change the way we live and the way we produce, buy, use and dispose of things[1].
The registered charity works with community groups, businesses, schools and other not-for-profit organisations. The charity is governed by a board of trustees drawn from the environment sector, business and academia.
[edit] History
Waste Watch grew out of the community recycling movement in the 1980s. The organisation was founded in 1987, by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, with a mission to make waste issues mainstream and to encourage waste reduction, reuse and recycling[2].
In 1987, Waste Watch ran the UK’s first Recycling Week during the European Year of the Environment. During this time, it also published the first UK National Directory of Recycling Information.[3]
Waste Watch became a charity in 1991. During the 1990s, Waste Watch launched telephone information service Wasteline, produced the first UK Recycled Products Guide and lobbied UK government to introduce the first waste strategy for England.[3]
In 1994, Waste Watch launched Recycler the rapping robot to deliver the ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ message to British primary school children.[3]
In 1999, Waste Watch commissioned the first UK-wide survey of public attitudes to waste which shaped the development of future national and local awareness campaigns.[3]
In 2000, Waste Watch was a founding member of the UK government-funded Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), whose mission is to help develop markets for material resources that would otherwise have become waste.[3]
During the 2000s, Waste Watch ran Rethink Rubbish, which later became the national Recycle Now public awareness campaign.
Waste Watch is a registered charity (no. 10054)(1337)[4].
[edit] Recycler the Robot
In 1994, Waste Watch launched Recycler the rapping robot to deliver the ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ message to British primary school children. The Recycler show involves story-telling with theatrical props and quizzes, and follow-up activities for the school. Along with an education professional, the robot shows pupils how they can put reducing, reusing and recycling into practice at home and at school[5].
Recycler has reached more than 1.5 million pupils since 1994, and has visited more than 7,200 schools, performing more than 15,000 times[6].
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.wastewatch.org.uk/Homepage
- ^ http://www.wastewatch.org.uk/About-Us/Who-we-are
- ^ a b c d e http://www.wastewatch.org.uk/document/453
- ^ http://www.wastewatch.org.uk/About-Us/Introduction
- ^ http://www.wastewatch.org.uk/page/2151/Education-and-Training/Programmes/Recycler-the-rapping-robot
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHGNl_9r7YY
