An Analysis Of Excess Wastage Of Education

Excess wastage produced by education

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This report will analyses excess wastage produced by the education system and will evaluate and investigate this issue in detail. The management of school grounds, human intervention, air pollution and the over production of school resources such as energy, waste, water and paper causes the education system to become an unsustainable practise.Thus having a negative impact on the environment. This is an important issue of sustainability for the Australian education system due to these following reasons:

1) Money being wasted on the overuse of resources

2) Contribution to climate change and environmental

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DEFINE: Sustainability is the ability or capacity of something to be maintained or to sustain itself. It’s about taking what we need to live now, without jeopardizing the potential for people in the future to meet their needs. ( http://www.landlearnnsw.org.au/sustainability/what-is-sustainability )

DEFINE: Environmental sustainability is about making responsible decisions that will reduce your business' negative impact on the environment. ( http://toolkit.smallbiz.nsw.gov.au/part/17/86/371 )

DEFINE: Wastage is the over use of resources such as electricity, water, heating, paper, energy, plastic and over littering.

WHS ACT: The WHS Act is a law that applies to all the businesses/industries and also to all the education departments. WHS is anxious with protecting the health, safety and welfare of employers and employees that are engaged in work. The rights are set out in legislation to confirm that employers are clear about the obligations and the penalties for disobeying

This data proves how important sustainable schools are for the students, teachers and the environment. This issue occurs when school facilities have no system to track and regulate their usage of resources therefore excess supplies of electricity, water and materials are used. When schools, which are large organizations, start to use their resources irresponsibly they begin to waste the economy's supplies as a whole. The data i have collected also shows the exceptional progress schools have undergone with the help of sustainable school programs, by reducing their numbers of resource usage sufficiently.

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This is an issue due to the fact that, there are plenty of schools across Queensland and with each of them over using and producing materials and resources, this will not only bring down the education systems budget but the health of our already deteriorating environment. Australia's national education budget stands at around 40.44 billion dollars per year, this amount can be drastically reduced by introducing sustainability plans for schools and having both staff and students educated about following the plans. It is a great concern for the environment because if we continually damage it we will have no future.

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