Environment: ECO Eltham

Eco-Eltham is a pupil-led organisation concerned with tackling environmental issues not only in the school but also the wider community also. Recent achievements include:

• Won an Eco-Schools Bronze Award
• Successfully implemented paper and plastic cup recycling schemes
• Reduced our use of resources by introducing web-based communications with parents, a paperless daily bulletin and a printing quota for pupils
• Cut energy waste by arranging automatic shut down on most PCs around the school and encouraging good practice of staff and pupils
• Funded the adoption of two orangutans by recycling old mobile phones
• Collected over 4,000 Christmas cards for recycling since 2008

Arguably the greatest achievement of Eco-Eltham is its success in bringing together all exisiting work on sustainable issues under one structure with a clear organisation. There's no doubt that pupils at Eltham College are now more aware of environmental issues than ever before.

ECO Eltham Day in 2010 was on June 25th and in 2011 on 6th July.

For more information, please visit our website