Recycling at School

Top tips to improve the school recycling rate:

1) Assign an eco coordinator role to a member of staff

2) Gather a green team of pupils who meet once a week

3) Have a green team recycling monitor checking the recycling in your school once a week – a prize can be given to the best performing class

4) Check to see if you need all your general waste bins. If you can get rid of one make sure you do!

5) Talk to the kitchen staff and make sure they are composting/recycling their food waste wherever possible

6) Make sure each room in the school has a recycling/reuse bin (reuse is particularly useful in art/design, but even reusing paper and having a scrap paper tray in each room is a great way to reuse)

7) Hold a zero waste day to encourage the school to be more aware of recycling in school

For more information on classroom resources please contact the Education Officer Julia Roebuck on 07891 815 068 or at julia.roebuck@wastewatch.org.uk

For information from your boroughs around getting recycling facilities at school, click below to see their websites:

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