All Pre-schools must have a Climate Action Plan in place by September 2025.

All businesses must follow new waste disposal rules, businesses with under 10 employees like us by 2027 others by 2025.

To address these new initiatives, we need to put in place a Sustainability Working Group, so we can identify ways we can improve our sustainability as a business, work to follow the new waste disposal rules and promote sustainability within the setting, with children and parents.

Progress so far with actions:

1. An energy review of the building has been undertaken with the Center Manager and the Community Centre is doing all it can to be sustainable ie/ solar panels and LED lights.

2. We have completed a review of single use plastics such as gloves, nappy sacks, aprons and black bin bags. The review highlighted that we don’t need to use gloves for every nappy change, nappy sacks don’t need to be used for wet nappies as they can go directly in the nappy disposal bin. Nappy sacks were also being used for sending home wet/dirty clothes. They will now be sent home using a cloth/drawstring bag that can be washed by parents and returned. In the future we will encourage parents to supply a bag for their child but we do have a supply.

3. We are going to be working to change the mindsets of parents and children regarding waste and sustainability. Initially we will be using books and stories to provide children with some basic information. We will be sharing information with parents via Updates/Newsletters/Email and Facebook.

4. We are encouraging litter free lunch boxes. This is line with both sustainability and with the new waste disposal rules. We need to have separate waste disposal facilities for plastic, glass and paper/card. So the less waste we have coming into pre-school in the way of plastic cartons, yoghurt pots, tin foil, cling film, crisp packages etc the better. We have already shared ideas for litter free lunch boxes on the weekly update and parents are doing really well. We have started to recycle food waste into a council food waste bin provided for the community centre.     

​

                         Environmental Sustainability Policy​