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Are you ready for a future beyond the bin? We have created a bunch of resources to help you recycle right! If you're looking to set up a recycling system at school, minimise waste from school lunchboxes or engage in recycled craft projects - you're in the right place.
Getting Started Guide
The Schools Recycle Right Challenge is an initiative that brings together a wide range of recycling-themed activities, lesson plans, supporting resources, and events ideas that have been developed specifically for Australian schools. The aim of this guide is to assist you in planning your school’s National Recycling Week activities.
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Waste-free lunch challenge
Waste-free lunches benefit the environment by reducing packaging waste, which in turn reduces energy and resource use. Participating in a waste-free lunch activity also promotes sustainability awareness among students, parents and school staff. Download the waste-free lunch challenge to minimise waste from lunches at your school.
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The School Recycling Games Guide
The School Recycling Games are designed to be an engaging, entertaining way for students to learn about the environmental benefits of recycling and how to ‘recycle right’. The physical elements of the Games will also help develop students’ fitness, motor coordination, agility, flexibility and teamwork skills.
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How to set-up a recycling system
This is a step-by-step guide on how to establish a recycling system at your school. A recycling system involves collecting recyclable materials at school and taking them to (or getting them collected by) a recycler. Remember though, it is always better to reduce waste first, reuse where possible, and then recycle.
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Recycled Arts and Crafts Guide
This craft guide will spark ideas for teachers and educators who want their students to learn about the importance of reusing and recycling resources for environmental sustainability. These recycled craft projects are a good way to reinforce the key messages of sustainability that are being learned elsewhere in the classroom. You’ll find projects that are suitable for students in preschool and primary school.
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Activities
We have created a bunch of fun activities including puzzles, word games and colouring-in sheets to help students learn about the importance of reusing and recycling resources for environmental sustainability.
Crossword
This crossword uses recycling related words. It’s the perfect activity for children in early primary school grades.
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Recycled herb garden
Make a mini herb garden from recycled materials! All you need is potting mix, 2 Litre juice carton trays, spray bottles for watering seeds, scissors, sticky tape, fertiliser and seeds.
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Find-a-word
Find each of the items in the find-a-word. Check with your council or visit RecyclingNearYou.com.au before putting any of the items listed in orange into your recycling bin.
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Recycle Right Activity Sheet
Recycle Right to save energy, reduce greenhouse gases and keep valuable resources out of landfill. Games include Word Scramble, Maze and Spot the Difference.
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Recycle Right Co-mingled colouring sheet
Recycle Right colouring sheet for kerbside co-mingled collections. Check with your council or visit RecyclingNearYou.com.au before putting any of the items into your recycling bin.
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E-waste colouring sheet
Have fun learning how to Recycle Right for different types of e-waste. Head to https://recyclingnearyou.com.au/education/ewaste for more information.
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Green waste colouring sheet
Have fun learning how to Recycle Right for different types of green waste.
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Paper and cardboard
Have fun learning how to Recycle Right for all types of Paper and Cardboard.
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