Recycling in schools
Recycling at school is an important way to get children involved in tackling climate change and other important issues
Recycling will also help your school save money. We have provided lots of resources and tips to help you get started.
The average school currently spends between £300 and £1000 on waste disposal each year (depending on size), and produces a minimum of 1 tonne of waste per term!
- Activities games and presentations
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Our introductory Powerpoint presentation will help highlight the wider significance of recycling and explain what can be recycled in your school.
Schools Recycling Introduction
We have developed a series of activities and games packs to introduce recycling, composting and reducing waste to children:
Supporting resources:
- Recycling role play opinion cards
- Recycling run around questions
- Recycling bingo cards
- Composting mini beasts guide
- Reducing waste packaging survey form
- Paper Quiz for schools
- Recycling Quiz for schools
- Recycling Rap
- Ideas for School Green day or week
Here are some posters that may help encourage recycling at school.
- Happy Planet poster
- Recycling Star photo
- Recycling Star poster
- Bottle to fleece poster
- Cereal box energy poster
- Air freshener to lego poster
- Recycling points poster
- Eco Code promise poster
Over the last few years, two competitions have been run in schools CANimals (animals made out of cans) and Robottles (robots made out of plastic bottles). Why not have a go at this with your class? Here are two handy Powerpoint presentations that will help you get started in an assembly or classroom scenario.
You can even present the best ones with our custom made certificates:
If you need help accessing the information in any of the above PDFs, please contact us.
You can find additional recycling games, and videos, as well as resources for teachers on the WRAP website.
- Recycling collection service
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If your school is not recycling already, setting up a collection contract is straightforward and could save you money. Hampshire County Council has a contract with Suez Recycling and Recovery UK offering a full range of waste recycling and collection services to schools across the county. Recycling through this contract is around 50% cheaper than general waste collection, meaning real savings for schools that recycle. It is estimated that 90% of school waste is recyclable, and 70% of schools in Hampshire have now signed up.
The contract includes the collection of:
- mixed recyclables (cans, tins, plastic bottles, paper and card)
- glass
- hazardous waste
- confidential waste
- IT waste
- and more
To find out more about the waste and recycling services available to schools, please visit the Suez website.
- Compost bin offer
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Hampshire schools can purchase reduced price compost bins. A range of different bins, accessories and water butts are all available.
- Wormeries
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Hampshire schools can also purchase wormeries.
