Advice for schools
The Wild Waste Show
The fantastic Wild Waste Show, run by the Northmoor Trust, will visit your school to teach pupils about waste reduction, reuse and recycling.
Useful links
- Schools recycling scheme
- School composting scheme
- Earn money for your school or for charity by recycling
- Educational resources for schools
Reduction and re-use tips
Most schools are already busy re-using resources from revamping last year's costumes for the next school play to designing space craft from empty washing up liquid bottles! Here are a few ideas for reusing even more materials in school:
- compost pencil shavings
- promote waste free packed lunches, and compost fruit leftovers
- refill ink cartridges for printers
- shred paper for pupils to take home for animal bedding
- compost tea bags from the staff room
- collect coloured paper and magazines for scrap art
- ask parents to donate unwanted paint and tiles to revamp outdoor spaces and create exciting mosaics and murals
- hold a recycled fashion show, you could even sell the pupils' creations after the show!
Cut down on paper use in school by:
- using both sides of paper for rough notes and jotters for pupils
- printing and photocopying double sided where possible
- finding out whether parents would like to receive an email letter rather than a paper version. This may help with notes getting lost in school bags as well!
