If your school has the budget to pay for garbage removal, food scraps are the critical items to have removed. Differences Between Urban and Rural Schools Urban schools generally generate more garbage, but arranging collection tends to be easier. Remote rural schools may have higher percentages of organics, but greater difficulty with garbage collection. Children from urban schools are often faced with dirty urban environments as soon as they leave the schoolyard, and may behave one way while in school but quite another in the wider community. Urban schools may be near to a gully and children have to be taught not to use the gully for waste disposal.
Rural children tend to have experience with rivers rather than gullies.
They may turn over drums and spread the garbage all over. Start a fund-raising project to fence your school so animals can t get in. Outreach Activities Children are very good educators in the wider community. Encourage them to discuss the management of garbage with their families. If the school bans certain containers and the children must take them back home, this is an opportunity to explain why some items are threats to the environment.