What is It?

The WasteWise Project is a partnership between The County Durham Environmental Trust (CDENT), Durham County Council and Groundwork East & West Durham. It has been funded by landfill tax credits from CDENT (using monies supplied by Durham County Waste Management Company). Following changes to the landfill tax credit scheme WasteWise is now operating at a lesser capacity. The Project Coordinator now works part time on this project and part time on school grounds work.

Contact Details

For more information, contact:

Sara Caines, WasteWise Project Coordinator at:

The EWE Centre, Esh Winning Primary School, The Wynds, Esh Winning, Co. Durham, DH7 9BE.

Tel: 0191 373 9799.

Fax: 0191 373 9799.

E-mail: s.caines100@durhamlea.org.uk

What Does It Do?

The Project works with schools throughout County Durham, Darlington and the City of Sunderland to help schools develop sustainable waste minimisation practices integrated into the curriculum. The project works with pupils between the ages of 3 & 18.

The key to WasteWise initiatives are that they are whole school projects, this does not mean that the officers work with every pupil and every member of staff, but that in some way all members of the school community can be involved either through assembly presentations, after-school clubs, notice boards or newsletters.

To find out more and to give you some ideas of the types of projects we get involved in please have a look at the Latest news page. Below are some photo's to show some of the Projects we get involved in.

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1. Timothy Hackworth pupils with their spider made from junk materials to complement their reading of Charlottes' Web

2. Pupils from Ferryhill Comprehensive undertaking their waste audit.

3. Heighington Primary School children with their collection for the Schools and Charities Project in Darlington

4. Children investigating the 'Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish' story sack.

Eco-Schools Support

The Eco-Schools programme is managed in Britain by Encams. It is an environmental management programme for schools. click here for more information

The WasteWise Project supports schools aiming to achieve the Green Flag Award by providing in school advice and support on how to deliver the programme, particularly looking at the environmental review, waste minimisation & recycling initiatives and resource efficiency.

Check out some of the schools own websites to look at the type of work that they are doing.