This petition calls on Kingsdale Foundation School to stop offering single-use plastic knives and forks at lunchtime. The school should switch to reusable or biodegradable cutlery immediately.
Scientists estimate around 13 million tons of plastic ends up in the oceans every year. Plastics take hundreds and hundreds of years to decompose, and even then they just break into millions of smaller pieces - they don’t ever truly biodegrade.
With around 2,000 students at Kingsdale, it is easily possible that we are using 4000 knives and forks everyday. That’s 20,000 pieces of single-use plastic every single week!
Kingsdale is an outstanding school and should be setting an example to other schools around the UK. Switching to reusable or biodegradable cutlery should be the first step towards Kingsdale becoming an environmentally caring school.
This petition is only one of a number of ways students are calling for change at Kingsdale. Others include:
- Other petitions about plastic use
- Letters from the students to Mr Morrison
- An art installation using the discarded plastic cutlery
- Joining the next school strike against climate change on May 24th
Updates
May 12, 2019
Mr Morrison continues to ignore the thousands of plastic utensils piling up in our bins every day. While the administration stays silent, the rest of us are documenting their refusal to act and planning our next move.
May 12, 2019
The administration at Kingsdale keeps ignoring our demands while flooding our lunchroom with thousands of pieces of trash every week. This momentum proves that we refuse to let Mr Morrison hide from the mess his school is creating.
Reached 100 supporters
May 12, 2019
73 Comments
In Japan there is a culture where people carry their own bamboo personal cutlery. Could you not encourage the school to make these sets and water bottles part of the school kit list? As essential as the calculators and geometry sets. There needs to be a complete change in our disposable culture and it could start at Kingsdale. With this act.
I hope the school can find an affordable alternative to plastic cutlery, which is so damaging to the environment. A cost effective solution would be to ask each child to bring in their own personal cutlery to keep in their locker and provide a washing up sink(s) for them to clean up after use.
As a year 7 parent I very much hope Kingsdale puts wheels in motion quickly on this and can make alternative environmentally responsible arrangements for mealtimes.
I’m a year 7 student and I feel strongly about climate change and plastic pollution. I bring my own cutlery to school. I am disappointed that my school throws away so much plastic cutlery each day.
I’m a new parent at Kingsdale and I’m horrified by the use of so much throw-away plastic each and every day at the school. My daughter brings packed lunch so I didn’t find out immediately, but it really seems to me to be beyond belief that such a leading school should be setting this example of throw-away culture to the students and lacking any sort of facilities to recycle even paper. I fervently hope the new crop of parents and students can work with the school to make the changes desperately needed as soon as we can.
It's time to stop creating more unnecessary waste.
I can't believe this hasn't been sorted out.
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This petition calls on Kingsdale Foundation School to stop offering single-use plastic knives and forks at lunchtime. The school should switch to reusable or biodegradable cutlery immediately.
Scientists estimate around 13 million tons of plastic ends up in the oceans every year. Plastics take hundreds and hundreds of years to decompose, and even then they just break into millions of smaller pieces - they don’t ever truly biodegrade.
With around 2,000 students at Kingsdale, it is easily possible that we are using 4000 knives and forks everyday. That’s 20,000 pieces of single-use plastic every single week!
Kingsdale is an outstanding school and should be setting an example to other schools around the UK. Switching to reusable or biodegradable cutlery should be the first step towards Kingsdale becoming an environmentally caring school.
This petition is only one of a number of ways students are calling for change at Kingsdale. Others include:
- Other petitions about plastic use
- Letters from the students to Mr Morrison
- An art installation using the discarded plastic cutlery
- Joining the next school strike against climate change on May 24th
Updates
May 12, 2019
Mr Morrison continues to ignore the thousands of plastic utensils piling up in our bins every day. While the administration stays silent, the rest of us are documenting their refusal to act and planning our next move.
May 12, 2019
The administration at Kingsdale keeps ignoring our demands while flooding our lunchroom with thousands of pieces of trash every week. This momentum proves that we refuse to let Mr Morrison hide from the mess his school is creating.
Reached 100 supporters
May 12, 2019
73 Comments
My daughter has just joined in year 7. She was shocked to discover the lunchtime use of single use plastic, and has already written to the school. I understand that this is something the school is looking into, but if this petition is still valid please recirculate and include the new year 7 parents. Thanks
In Japan there is a culture where people carry their own bamboo personal cutlery. Could you not encourage the school to make these sets and water bottles part of the school kit list? As essential as the calculators and geometry sets. There needs to be a complete change in our disposable culture and it could start at Kingsdale. With this act.
I hope the school can find an affordable alternative to plastic cutlery, which is so damaging to the environment. A cost effective solution would be to ask each child to bring in their own personal cutlery to keep in their locker and provide a washing up sink(s) for them to clean up after use.
As a year 7 parent I very much hope Kingsdale puts wheels in motion quickly on this and can make alternative environmentally responsible arrangements for mealtimes.
I’m a year 7 student and I feel strongly about climate change and plastic pollution. I bring my own cutlery to school. I am disappointed that my school throws away so much plastic cutlery each day.
I’m a new parent at Kingsdale and I’m horrified by the use of so much throw-away plastic each and every day at the school. My daughter brings packed lunch so I didn’t find out immediately, but it really seems to me to be beyond belief that such a leading school should be setting this example of throw-away culture to the students and lacking any sort of facilities to recycle even paper. I fervently hope the new crop of parents and students can work with the school to make the changes desperately needed as soon as we can.
It's time to stop creating more unnecessary waste.
I can't believe this hasn't been sorted out.
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My daughter has just joined in year 7. She was shocked to discover the lunchtime use of single use plastic, and has already written to the school. I understand that this is something the school is looking into, but if this petition is still valid please recirculate and include the new year 7 parents. Thanks