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School recycling Homepage

also known as: Recycling in school, Waste education.

This is the Waste Education and Recycling Homepage for Northumberland Schools. This is a sign posting page to help direct teachers and school staff to information which will help their school to reduce, reuse and recycle more than ever before and also help to support schools working towards the Eco-Schools Programme.

Waste education and recycling in Northumberland schools

For future reference, the website address for this page is www.northumberland.gov.uk/wasteeducation

On the wrong page? Please click here to go to our Waste Management Homepage.

Prizes of £250 available : Be rewarded for recycling- click here to find out more

A summary of our waste education pages and linking sites

Recycling Green Points Challenge for Northumberland schools
Please click here

School Waste Activities-

health and safety advice

Please click here

Recycling Directory for Northumberland schools

This includes information on waste audits and a Recycling Directory for schools and colleges, from recycling paper and electricals to chemical collections and hazardous waste items.

Please click here to go the Recycling Directory for Northumberland Schools

WARPIT

Waste Action Reuse Portal

Are you buying furniture or other equipment for use in school?

Or do you have items that you don't need anymore?

You may find that you do not need to buy a new item of furniture or a specific piece of equipment!

Think green before buying brand new

items for school.

Think green before disposing of items.

Please click here to find out more from our

green purchasing page

Request a recycling / waste assembly or talk for your school (open to all Northumberland schools)

Please click here to find out more.

Waste education picture library

Looking for ideas for waste and recycling projects in school?

Please click here to see our new waste and

recycling picture library

Recycling ideas for children / students

Please click here

Recycle Now poster

Recycling, composting

and litter posters

Please click here

Recycle Now poster

Setting up a recycling scheme in school

Please click here for advice for

Northumberland schools.

Please click here to go to the Recycle Now

website for further ideas.

What happens to waste?

Would you like to find out what happens to the general waste and recyclables collected from the kerbside by Northumberland County Council?

Please click here for information.

West Sleekburn recycling sorting facility

Eco-Schools and The Pod

Eco-Schools includes nine topics

Litter and waste are two of the nine topics.

Please click here to find out about Eco-Schools and to gain access to a wealth of ideas and resources.

The Blue Marble- Transforming the Ecology of Education

Click here to take a look at the excellent new website and the first edition of the magazine

The Pod contains games, videos, blogs, lesson plans and other resources, all designed to make your school greener and to support your work towards the Eco-Schools awards.

Please click here for more

Recycle Now Schools

An excellent resource for schools looking to set up recycling and waste reduction initiatives. Recycle Now includes, resources for Primary and Secondary Schools, posters, curriculum links, information on reducing food waste and setting up composting projects in school.

Please click here to go to Recycle Now.

National recycling logo green

Schools Against Waste

Please click here to go to find out about the Schools Against Waste online learning programme.

Covering the topics energy, water and waste.

Litter campaigns in schools

Please click here to go to our litter

campaigns webpage

Love Where You Live- Find out how your school can get involved in this campaign or your local Love Northumberland Campaign.

Love where you live- Click here for more

Love Northumberland- Click here for more

Picture provided by the Helping Hand Company

Green Purchasing for Northumberland Schools

with a focus on recycled products, bins and

litter picking equipment.

Please click here for more

Would you like to hire a

recycling / environmental

performer or magician into school?

Here are some ideas

KanDo Arts, including recycling shows and puppet making.

Martin Duffy magic into schools, including healthy schools, maths and recycling topics.

Michael Freeman junk music workshops.

Please take a look at the websites or contact the individual artists/performers for further information, including feedback and details of CRB checks etc.

Link back to the top

Click here to use the School Recycling Directory for

Northumberland Schools

Click here to use the Recycling Directory for

Northumberland householders

Please note:

Website content: we do our best to keep information as up-to-date as possible on this webpage. However, some things may be missed from time-to-time. Please report any broken links or information that you believe may be incorrect on this page to Lorna.Tingey@northumberland.gov.uk

Any suggestions for improvement would also be much appreciated.

Linking websites: We do not necessarily support all the content of linking websites on this page. These links are provided for your information only. Please send any comments on the web content of these linking sites directly to the individual website managers.

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