Environmental education and awareness
Education is an important tool in understanding how we affect our environment and how we can 'do our bit' to improve it.
The council's twice nationally recognised (Green Apple Award 2007 and 2010) Environmental Education Team carry out a number of high profile educational projects across the city which aim to encourage a sense of pride in Salford and its environment. The team also works in partnership with many other departments to ensure that comprehensive work is achieved.
The projects delivered by the Environmental Education Team include:
- Anti-litter and graffiti awareness campaigns
- Eco-schools
- Promotion of waste reduction throughout Salford - reduce, reuse and recycle
- Clean-up campaigns
- Environmental sustainability - climate change (with partners), energy use and conservation (with partners)
- Behavioural change initiatives
The team are available to visit:
- Community groups
- Volunteer groups
- Businesses
- Schools
- Youth groups
- Brownies/Girl Guide groups, etc
We can deliver fun and interactive sessions on a wide range of environmental topics, from reducing your food waste to the problems of litter on our streets. We can carry out workshops and provide curriculum based lessons for schools; the team can tailor visits to your needs. Our officers are CRB checked and the service is free.
Educational DVDs
We have produced several DVDs to help young people learn about different aspects of the environment:
- 'Don't Trash the Glass' - This is our latest DVD, which looks at why we need to recycle and follows the journey of a glass jar to the recycling factory
- 'A New Start' - A short animated film showing what your waste thinks about recycling
- 'Consequences Faerie' - Made for young people by young people this shows what happens when you commit environmental crime
For more information, please call 0161 909 6500 or email environment@salford.gov.uk.
Who to contact
- Name
- Environmental Education Team
- Address
- Environment and Community Safety Directorate
Turnpike House
631 Eccles New Road
Salford
M50 1SW
Map to this location - Telephone
- 0161 909 6500
- environment@salford.gov.uk
This page was last updated on 4 November 2011
