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INFORMATION AND EDUCATION
We want to encourage children to start thinking early about
using resources again instead of wasting them. School recycling champions (teachers, pupils and
parents) in Monmouthshire and elsewhere have used different ways of getting the
message across - 'trash to fashion' shows, composting on site, waste
audits, art exhibitions, and plenty of other stimulating activities cutting across the curriculum.
MCR would like to help with ideas and resources to make the
theory more immediate to children.
Children from Archbishop Rowan Williams Primary School visiting MCR's yard
Monmouthshire Schools Waste Awareness Package
Monmouthshire
Community Recycling in partnership with Monmouthshire County
Council currently service most of the schools in the South of
the county, several in the North, including all of the
comprehensive schools, and we can offer our services to any
remaining school in or near the area we cover on the Black Box
scheme.
This includes:
- supply of boxes and
bins
- weekly collections of paper and
tins
- a talk on the '3 Rs' (reduce,
reuse, recycle) to the whole school and individual
classes
- posters and leaflets about the
scheme
- education pack on recycling
(storybooks, workbooks, video, interactive CDRom)
- recycled stationery packs to be
used as prizes (approximately £50 worth per school: pencils, pads,
pencil cases, mousemats)
- annual allocation of trees to be
planted on school grounds
- teacher training on Waste
Awareness and
Eco
Schools
- recycling 'pavilion' (customised
garden shed) for schools outside the Black Box area (only one
available at the moment)
- tour of the MCR site, showing
children where materials go and what we do with them before
reprocessing
ALL FREE OF CHARGE
All of the above is completely free of
charge to the school. Costs are met by sale of
materials, and support from Big Lottery Fund, the WDA, Shotton
Paper Mill, Careers Wales, Rural Community Action and
Alupro.
Any local groups for adults, such as clubs or societies, are welcome
to a similar service.
For
more on sources of recycling info, see our Links section.
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