January 6th, 2010 @ kadraoui
Learning about recycling and actively using recycling facilities at school is an exciting way to enrich the curriculum by providing:
“Recycling at school gives pupils a practical, hands-on opportunity to develop valuable problem solving and decision making skills and to work as a team towards a common goal…”
A real life contect for learning
Your school’s recycling scheme can provide a real life context for learning and skills such
Recycling can also deliver the aims of the curriculum for some subjects, The key skills required to recycle are, for example, central to the Science programme of study for Key Stage 1:
Great for teaching cross curricular skills
Learning about recycling and actively recycling at school helps pupils to develop a range of cross-curricular skills, including:
Education for sustainable development
Recycling also helps to put Education for Sustainable Development into practice. Pupils can get involved with decision-making and understand how we can use resources individually and collectively, locally and globally, to improve the quality of life now and in the future.
Recycling can significantly reduce the amount of rubbish your school throws away, which can save you money in collection charges
Reducing cost of collection
Find out from your bursar, head teacher or site manager/caretaker what your school currently pays for rubbish collections and how frequent the collections are.
Introducing a recycling collection scheme could reduce the amount of waste your school throws away as rubbish. Recycling schemes therefore offer potential cost savings if your school can reduce the size or quantity of rubbish bins collected, or the collection frequency. Any savings made could be used to partially offset possible charges for a dedicated recycling collection.
Contributing to charities from recycling
Recycling for Charity even generate a small income to support local charities with the proceeds.