Our Work With Bolton College

SE Recycling’s IT2Schools project allowed students to have full responsibility for the design, execution and monitoring of their individual projects developing their organisational skills, independent thinking and most crucially their confidence to make an impact in their environment.

Bolton College

Achievements

It allowed learners to learn more about, and try out, business and enterprise skills.
The funds raised will be donated to a small local homelessness charity, Bolton Young Persons Housing Scheme.
Facilitated learners’ engaging with the Charity and learning about this issue in Bolton
Developed crucial citizenship skills and learners’ understanding of their role in their community

The Project

The objective of the IT2Schools project was to create, develop and implement an IT Recycling project with to raise Money for a chosen charity.

Students have to work with the local community to recycle any unwanted ICT equipment through several different channels including social media campaigns, advertisements, handing out marketing material etc.

The recycling value of the items collected will be then handed back to Bolton College to then donate to BYPHS.

Process

Bolton College Students split their project into 5 key parts:

Research – Students conducted research into the ICT recycling sector, marketing strategies and advertising.

Presentation – Using excel,PowerPoint and other ideas to present what they have found out.

Marketing – Online and offline campaigns were created to advertise the project. including social media posts, flyers and posters

Action – Students then went out and started to collect ICT equipment from their friends, family and local community. They were then tasked with organising drop of points and collection dates for the unwanted ICT.

Evaluation – information was then collected, analysed and then assessed with feedback from the students themselves and their peers.

Results

After all the ICT equipment was collected and recycled by SER we were able to provide Bolton College with a cheque for £500 which was then donated to the Bolton Young Persons Housing Scheme.

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Andes Mountains Hydro Power - Chile

Located in the Tinguiririca River upper valley, this Hydroelectric project is around 120km south of Santiago, Chile. Known as La Confluencia, the 163 MW run of river hydro power plant utilizes the hydrological resources of the Tinguiririca, Portillo and Azufre Rivers, in a run of river scheme to generate and supply zero emission energy to the Chilean central electricity grid (SIC). The power plant generates certified emission reductions (CERs) by displacing electricity generation from grid connected fossil fuel-fired power plants that would otherwise be generating electricity.

Environmental Sustainability

The primary objective of the proposed project is to help meet Chile’s rising demand for energy due to its economic growth and to improve the supply of electricity, while contributing to the environmental, social (job creation in the construction phase, and infrastructure enhancements in surrounding municipalities) and economic sustainability by increasing renewable energy’s share on the Chilean electricity consumption. The Project activity improves the supply of electricity with clean, renewable hydroelectric power while contributing to the regional/local economic development.

Social Development

Through the “Tinguiririca Participa” grant program, the project directly finances proposals presented by community organisation, in areas such as healthcare, education, and social change. In the first year of the program, the joint venture financed 11 projects, while today the number of projects surpasses 200. All of these initiatives are aimed at meeting community needs.

Flora and Fauna

In addition to social projects, reforestation of around 120 hectares around the site has been implemented, helping protect and improve the local flora and fauna, with a specific impact on local Tricahue Parrot, Torrent Duck, Freshwater Catfish, Torrent Duck and Freshwater Catfish species.

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