Starting a recycling project in school is an excellent way to help children and young people to understand they have an active part to play in reducing rubbish.
Our newest resource is Working Out Waste - a Key Stage 2 waste and recycling resource pack specific to Slough. The pack has been written as part of the Keep Slough Green and Tidy campaign in conjunction with Groundwork Thames Valley and funded by the Norlands Foundation and Ernest Cook Trust.
Working Out Waste contains 17 lesson plans and activities covering composting, waste, recycling and citizenship, linking to literacy, maths, science, music and PSHE, as well as healthy schools and ecoschools programmes.
The pack also contains information about recycling at home and in school, and details of Slough contacts and groups related to waste and recycling. Download your copy of Working Out Waste below or e-mail recycling@slough.gov.uk to receive a hard copy.
Working Out Waste - Key Stage 2 [ PDF ]
There are also two class literacy packs that can be loaned to schools for an environment week or to support citizenship work through literacy:
Please contact the community recycling officer on 01753 875255 to enquire about loaning resources or the dustbin pack.
Schools in Slough can recycle paper and card free of charge. Slough Accord, the council’s waste contractor can offer recycling boxes for classrooms and communal areas, as well as outdoor recycling bins if required.
Slough schools can now purchase heavily subsidised compost bins for their school grounds. A 330 litre compost bin costs £10 including delivery and comes with full instructions for use. To order your bin call 0845 077 0757.
Composting is an excellent way to recycle green waste from school grounds, shredded paper and fruit peel from break times.
For more information about composting at school visit the Recyclenow composting website.
To order your compost bins, or to arrange paper and card recycling facilities contact us on 01753 875255 or email recycling@slough.gov.uk.
For more general information about waste and recycling why not follow some of the links below.
Waste Online
In depth information about waste - all sorts of up-to-date facts and figures about how we dispose of our rubbish and materials recycling. Complete with an A- Z, Hot Topics Section and Information Sheets.
Community Recycling Network (CRN)
Trelawny House, Surrey Street, Bristol, BS2 8PS
Tel: 0117 942 0142
CRN is the national organisation representing community waste and recycling projects throughout the UK. They don’t provide information specifically to schools but many of their members are involved in local activities that may be of interest such as Scrapstores.
Encams
(commonly known as the Keep Britain Tidy Group)
Elizabeth House, The Pier, Wigan, WN3 4EX
Tel: 01942 612639
Provides online information sheets on litter, dog fouling, and waste minimisation. Also provides free anti-litter posters
Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens
The Greenhouse, Hereford Street, Bristol, BS3 4NA
Tel: 0117 9231800
Information on composting and wider environmental issues
Friends of the Earth
26-28 Underwood Street, London, N1 7JQ
Tel: 0808 800 1111
A campaigning organisation that can provide information on waste and recycling plus a range of publications exploring environmental issues
Global Action Plan
8 Fulwood Place, London, WC1V 6HG
Tel: 0207 405 5633
GAP believe that small changes in behaviour made by lots of people in their homes, schools, or workplaces really can make a difference. They produce action packs on things you can do to help the environment at home or at school.
Henry Doubleday Research Association
Ryton Organic Gardens, Coventry, Warwickshire, CV8 3LG
Tel: 024 7630 3517
Advice and publications about making compost heaps and worm composting
Wastewatch
56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4JX
Tel: 0207 549 0300
Waste Watch is the leading national organisation promoting and encouraging action on the 3Rs - waste reduction, reuse and recycling. There is an interactive zone for young people and a teacher’s zone linking sustainable resource use to the National Curriculum.
Recyclemore
A "one-stop recycling information centre". Help and advice on all aspects of recycling at home, at school and in the workplace. Including a recycling bank locator.
Alupro (Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation Ltd)
1 Brockhill Court, Brockhill Lane, Redditch, B97 6RB
Tel: 01527 597757
Facts and information about how and where to recycle your aluminium. They may be able to put you in touch with organisations that will pay a very small amount of money per can you collect. The council are part of their scheme to offer free trees to the community based on the amount of aluminium we collect for recycling.
Mailing Preference Service
DMA House, 70 Margaret Street, London, W1W 8SS
Tel: 0207 2913310
Register to make sure your household is taken off junk mailing lists
Paper Federation
Papermakers House, Rivenhall Road, Westlea, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN5 7BD
Tel: 01793 889600
Provides online factsheets, statistics and, a Key Stage 2 science pack and posters
The Composting Association
All sorts of composting related resources and "how to’s"
Global Footprints
Use this interactive site to let children work out their "global footprints" (the impact their lifestyle has on the enviornment"
Environment Agency
All sorts of useful reports and information. Click the "what’s in my back yard" link to enable students to put in their postcode and search fir the nearest landfill, river quality in the area, potential flooding and lots more
Recycled Products Guide
The UK’s major search engine for finding recycled products.
Education 4 Sustainability
Lots of lesson planning materials surrounding waste management.
For all enquiries please contact the Customer Service Centre
01753 475111
My Council
Landmark Place
High Street
Slough
opposite Slough Library
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