3Rs – Recycle More
Find out what we can recycle in the new Recycle More service, and what happens to it after it’s collected. Find out how you can do more at home and in school.
Download our Recycle More activity pack for families below.
recycle-more-activity-pack You can also download the answer sheet here.
Slim My Waste
Children develop an understanding of the range of resources consumed to supply us with food (e.g. fuel, energy, water, packaging materials) and the impact this can have on the environment. Children will learn how to reduce, reuse, and recycle food waste.
Fantastic Plastic
In this session children will explore the impact of plastics on our environment and consider alternatives. The session highlights the additional plastics that can be recycled through Recycle More.
Waste Odyssey
This time travelling workshop gives children a chance to consider the impact different materials have on the planet. During the workshop we will look at tech, different types of plastics, organic waste, chemicals, paper and cardboard, metal and glass, and students will think about how the items might cause challenges in the future.
Sparking Change
In this workshop we look at the topic of waste from electrical items and Fast Tech. In the UK we buy an astonishing 16 items of Fast Tech a second! Children will learn about the resources that go into tech items, ways we can reduce our consumption and ways we can reuse tech items once we have finished with them.
