It is amazing what can be made from waste!

These dresses were made by Northampton School for Girls using waste and charity shop items.

Top Hints

Hold a bring and buy sale

This can bring in money for the school as well as encouarge reuse.

Papier mache

Reuse old paper that can not be written on any more to make papier mache models or masks. Or use it to make your own paper.

Recycle in school

Does your school recycle? Does it recycle all of the materials you think it could? There is plenty out there that can be recycled, batteries, glasses, ink cartridges to name a few. Carry out a search on the web.

Reusable batteries and printer cartridges

Encourage the school to use refillable ink cartridges for the printers and rechargable batteries for small appliances.

Encourage composting

Could the school compost some of its fruit and paper waste? Or perhaps encouarge staff and pupils to take fruit waste home to compost there.

Slim Your Bin

The objective of Slim Your Bin at School is to increase waste awareness, including the need to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost waste among all school age children, with the broader aim of increasing County recycling rates by encouraging active recycling of household waste, through child to parent education.

Book your FREE session

Our sessions combine interactive, fun ingredients to deliver informative workshops and assemblies for the children on waste awareness issues, along with the opportunity to establish a recycling system for their school’s waste. These sessions and the recycling system are delivered through our key services. Choose one of the links below for further details on our service areas and to find out how your school can take part and benefit from this amazing County initiative.

Download the Primary School leaflet (5MB PDF) or the Secondary School leaflet (4MB PDF) by accessing the images above.

Slim your Bin at School

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