The Waste and Heating Aarhus Visiting Service

The visiting service at Waste and Heating Aarhus offers courses focusing on waste, recycling, energy, district heating, sustainability and resources, and receives visits from children, young adults and adults at authentic locations such as incinerators and recycling stations. In addi-tion, the Visitor Service visits schools and youth education as well as participates in civic-focused events. The Visitor Service is in direct contact with approximately 10,000 people each year.

At REUSE (our recycling centre which focuses on direct recycling) we receive 40-50 school classes every year from the 4th to 8th grade for a free course on recycling, innovation and redesign. Students learn about direct recycling, resource circuits and waste prevention through dialogic teaching. They are then guided through an innovation process that initiates creative thoughts on how to redesign discarded products. In the containers at REUSE, they select some effects that they want to turn into new usable things, and they prepare a work plan for how they will implement the project. Back at school, they work on the craft process and complete the product in collaboration with their Craft & Design teacher.