No Lectures: Sort It, Recycle It
No Lectures: Sort It, Recycle It
No Lectures: Sort It, Recycle it! was a collaborative campaign between Keep Scotland Beautiful, University of Strathclyde and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners CCEP.
Previous research carried out in 2024 by Keep Scotland Beautiful identified that for many students the first bin passed is the right bin. As a result of these findings the No Lectures: Sort it Recycle it campaign launched in October 2024 aims to explain the importance of finding and using the right bin to increase recycling of on-the-go packaging.
The campaign sought to use both qualitative and quantitative research with students to analyse the students’ behaviours and attitudes, to various recycling messaging and interventions to test their effectiveness in challenging and changing attitudes to recycling.
Reverse Vending Machine Trial
During the month of November 2024, plastic bottles and aluminium could be recycled whilst on-the-go in one of the reverse vending machines on campus. They were located in the Learning and Teaching Building and the Technology Innovation Centre. For each drink container recycled students were able to donate 20p to one of two charities - Homeless Project Scotland or Keep Scotland Beautiful.
Every Can Counts Event on Campus
During the month of November 2024 students joined in to help Every Can Counts create a PixelCan masterpiece in Rottenrow Gardens. The final artwork design was chosen by Strathclyde Students and was made up of 2,000 painted drink cans.
How does Recycling help Scotland?
- Reduces the amount of waste sent to landfill which mean less landfill tax for Scotland
- Keeps valuable resources in the country which is good for the Scottish economy.
- Creates jobs in Scotland
- Less litter and pollution
- Reduces the need for extracting (mining, quarrying and logging, refining and processing raw materials.
- Turns waste into something useful or innovative or even back to its original packaging use.
