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Environmental improvement campaigners from the Tidy Britain Group are launching the Enviro-Campus and Slim Your School Bin initiatives to make schools and colleges more waste aware.

Enviro-Campus is a unique project designed to address the litter and waste associated with the here-today, gone-tomorrow student population of colleges and universities.

The initiative includes carrying out litter surveys in and around college campuses and organising a series of action days involving students in clean-up operations.

There are also proposals to install bottle banks and other recycling facilities within college grounds and in areas where students live as well as introducing waste management issues into course work.

The Slim Your Bin initiative is designed to examine the waste created in the school environment and how this can be minimised by encouraging pupils and staff to recycle, reuse and compost.

Under the scheme schools will be encouraged to introduce waste management into every aspect of school life including the classroom, kitchens and even pupils' packed lunches.

Funding is now being sought for the projects through the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme.

The tax scheme involves charging businesses a tax for disposing of waste and ploughing back the money raised into waste reduction programmes.