Hazel Grove High School in Stockport has saved £16,000 a year by simply switching off lights and computers at the end of each day. The school of 1,300 pupils was incurring energy bills of £100,000 and producing 530 tonnes of carbon emissions. However the school employed a number of green approaches after having been visited by surveyor discovered lights and electricity were in use 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
All 70 classrooms now have recycling bins as well, which has lead to £6000 being generated by recycling paper. Students have gotten involved as well, two year nine students creating stickers as reminders to turn things off at the end of the day. Futher changes included changing the urinal flushing system – it was timed to flush every two minutes regardless of it being a weekend of middle of the night. New mechanisms were installed and flushed every 8 minutes during working hours only.