Upon reflection from last weeks discussions in my group from the workshop last week, and reading the feedback from them, out of the three ideas I proposed I think there is one clear area which is stronger than the other two.

My idea is to focus on how we can increase the amount of recycling that students of the University of Lincoln do, as I know, from personal experiences and what I’ve seen students are typically very messy and waste a lot of materials that should be recycled. For example, at my student accommodation last year, there was no recycling facilities at all, so with nearly 500 students essentially creating just waste every day, the skips outside the accommodation were full almost daily, throughout most of the year. Needless to say, this amount would add up very quickly.

This problem isn’t without issues, I’m focusing it on one, local, group of people, but being able to reach every single student at the University of Lincoln isn’t something that would be easy, plus if students are left with a lack of recycling facilities, that’s something which is out of my control, as well as the recycling centre being quite far away from Lincoln city centre, a lot of students wouldn’t want to walk all the way up there with several bags full of waste to recycle for example. I plan on looking further into this as to how I could approach this problem in the workshop this week, and get some form of plan set.