If your school needs a kick start to get its recyling program off the ground then this could be the opportunity that it needs. Its organised by Planet Ark and they have got a few ideas to get you going. Why not organise a Swap Party for your class, year group or even whole school. Everyone brings in good quality clothes they don't wear and get to exchange them for ones they want. Everyone pays a fee to enter so you could raise money for a good cause or for a school recycling program.
This page on our website gives you a step by step guide on how to set up a recycling program in your school.
We've also got lots of resources on our website can help get it into lessons too. In 'i change' students look at all the materials in their phones or MP3 players, how quickly they're running out and the issues around recycling them. They then organise a schoolwide phone recycle. If you taught this next week a collection could happen in National Recycling Week.
That's a Society and Environment lesson (although it could easily be a science one too). In Home Economics the Food Waste Module examines packaging. In the 'Smart Cookie' lesson students sort packaging into recyclable or not and look at alternatives, which don't need recycling. The whole module addresses the issue of food and resource waste (as you probably guessed from the title) and would be applicable to the week.
Or usse our recycling powerpoint to launch a poster competition at a school assembly.
So Reduce - Reuse - Recycle - and enjoy it. I'm a bit of an opshop fiend, I am just so pleased when I find some new clothes - they're reused, but still lovely, not expensive and the money goes to a good cause and its fun finding things. Find your way to enjoy it and get your studetns enjoying it too.
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