Get involved this Recycle Week and our schools could win £1000 worth of garden centre vouchers!
This year’s Recycle Week (21-27 June) is focusing on waste electricals. Three out of four people have broken, old or unwanted electrical items lying around doing nothing and we want your school to help us make them useful again. Many of those seemingly useless items contain important plastics and metals which can be recycled and re-used to make new stuff. Just one toaster for example can provide enough steel to make 25 new cans.
How to get involved
We’d like your school’s help to gather recycling pledges from your local community prior to Recycle Week. Every time someone recycles a small electrical item at a participating recycling point during Recycle Week they will receive a token with a unique code. These tokens can be awarded to your school online by the recycler (though some people may want to bring their tokens to you to register on their behalf). Remember the more tokens your school receives, the more chances of winning a regional or national prize of vouchers worth £500 or £1,000 respectively. So be sure to get as many people involved as you can to help.
The closing date for registering your school is May 21st.
Simply log on to www.recyclenow.com/schoolsignup and you’ll be able to sign-up for a host of free Recycle Week materials.
Free Materials for Participating Schools
Your school can help us encourage your local community to recycle their old electrical items this Recycle Week by using our:
• Posters to place around your school and school gate banners
• Specially developed school assembly presentation
• Engaging classroom teaching activities for primary and secondary school students
• Leaflets with tear off pledge slips for students to encourage local residents to recycle
• Pupil prizes (Primary: limited edition badges, Secondary: MP3 vouchers)
For more information and to register your school before May 21st, visit www.recyclenow.com/schoolsignup
07 May 2010