Interview with an expert: Esther Veenendaal
Channel: Designathon Works
Date: 05/04/2017

Interview with Esther Veenendaal, Circular Economy consultant at Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Enviroment. 
Esther was one of the judges at the Designathon School Challenge: Waste Sorting at Schools. 

On the 1st of March we invited Amsterdam schools to join us with the first ever Designathon School Challenge. Five elementary schools and two high schools excepted the invitation and so the challenge was on: Waste Sorting at Schools.
The initiators of the challenge are Designathon Works and Municipality of Amsterdam. We want to encourage more schools to separate and recycle waste. At the moment, 80% of the waste generated by schools is lost for recycling. We also want more children to be involved in thinking about waste separation and to the reuse of raw materials (circular economy).