Reusable instead of rubbish at the school kiosk

Created: 01/03/2022, 12:42 PM

From: Christine Merk

To hand over the cups came (from left) Philipp Burgtorf (Förderverein Gymnasium), Lena Erkenbrecher (SMV FOS), Tim Seyock (P-Seminar), Axel Kisters (Headmaster Gymnasium), Barbara Schömig (Fresh Kitchen), Michael Hüttl (Headmaster FOS), Josef Schlemmer (FOS Förderverein), Tobias Hoffmann (SMV FOS) and Yara Hein (P-Seminar).

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Less single-use waste: students at the state high school in Holzkirchen are campaigning for this.

In the P seminar you have now brought reusable cups for the kiosk on the way.

Holzkirchen

- The students at the state grammar school in Holzkirchen and at the neighboring technical college (FOS) appreciate coffee or tea.

Fortunately, the hot drinks are freshly available at the school kiosks - but what about sustainability?

This is what the students of the P-seminar “Climate Protection Concrete” at the grammar school asked themselves, because: Tea and coffee are served in disposable cups and they end up in the garbage afterwards.

So you have calculated the carbon footprint of a “coffee to go” and compared the coffee in the disposable cup with the coffee in the “reusable container”.

The drink in the disposable cup fared worse.

This gave the students the idea of ​​“replacing the disposable cups with reusable cups”, as they report.

Supporters were quickly found for the cause.

The fresh kitchen as the operator of the kiosks, the development associations of the FOS and the grammar school as well as the district office financed the purchase of 500 reusable cups.

The P seminarians write that a deposit system has been introduced so that these do not end up in the rubbish bins but are also brought back.

They would be happy about imitators: "Of course we hope that this project will be very successful and that this can become a model for other schools and kiosks, as this is a simple way of reducing unnecessary waste."

At the handover, the co-financiers and headmasters were able to convince themselves that the cups are not only environmentally friendly, but also pretty to look at.

They got a school design.

One of the seminar participants signed the technical college and high school.

Above it is a quote from the former Federal President Gustav Heinemann: "If you don't want to change anything, you will lose what you want to preserve."