Abstract
In the Czech Republic, we focused on those topics of the circular economy that are linked to the Sustainable Development Goals established by United Nations in 2015, in particular on Goal 12 - Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. Since there is a big theme in the Czech Republic - food and packaging waste, the schools implemented SCP called "food waste in school canteen" and "without packaging".
About 75 % of students in the Czech Republic eat in the school canteen because the meal is subsidized. Funding for school meals comes from three main sources: Parents pay the food costs, the state finances the salaries of school canteen staff and the municipality pays all operating costs (energy, cleaning, etc.).
Thus, the meal seems to be cheap to the students and they are used to waste it. The purpose of the project was to find out in cooperation with the staff of the school canteen how much food, by type (meat, potatoes, butter, etc.) is wasted in one day.
Students converted the amount of wasted food into monetary units, calories and used the Nutritional Food Calculator to assess the impacts on the environment. The second topic was concerned to packaging waste.
Students worked in proposals and realization how to reduce packaging waste and with big success they produced own shopping bags distributing in the environment of their schools.