Environmental Awareness at the Steinmühle

The wonderful trips we’ve recently taken as a boarding school to enjoy nature have once again made it clear to all of us just how much we care about our environment. To ensure that we can continue to enjoy such wonderful excursions and trips in the future, we as a boarding school would like to do our part to preserve our environment by acting in an environmentally conscious manner.

As part of this initiative, the boarding school has replaced the Styrofoam boxes—which were used both to transport meals and to hold students’ packed lunches—with standardized aluminum containers. All students and staff members at the boarding school received one such container, personalized with their own name. In addition, the wastebaskets in the students’ rooms were replaced with a three-compartment recycling system, similar to the one already in use in some of the dormitory kitchens.

We are very pleased to report that both the lunchboxes and the new trash cans have been very well received by the student body and are being used with care.