Recycling in schools
Each year a staggering 200 million milk and juice cartons are used in England's primary schools, while secondary schools get through more than 35 million. Now, thanks to Tetra Pak and the carton industry's Carton Recycling Scheme for Schools, these paper-based cartons can be recycled. The scheme enables schools to contact their local carton recycling contractors
through a straight-forward web portal and set up collections. It is already available to schools across over 53%of UK Local Authority areas, with more coming soon.
www.tetrapakrecycling.co.uk/schools
Here's a few I made earlier...
A few more ways tomake the environment really come to life:
- Carton Origami Frogs? Trees? Stars? Let your imagination run wild and see what shapes your class can create.
- Things tomake and do Cartons are very versatile; they make great pots for growing seeds, and can even be used tomake puppets, purses and ten pin bowls.
Find more inspiration on crafts for the whole class at www.tetrapakrecycling.co.uk/downloads/cartonart.pdf
Changing behaviour
As for bringing these issues to life, Tetra Pak have launched a competition tomake sustainable learning fun, asking people across the country
"How do you squash yours?"
The premise is simple: if everyone squashed their used cartons,we could fit up to three timesmore in recycling banks and boxes,which helps reduce the number of trucks on the road. To help students become more recycling savvy, Tetra Pak are challenging recyclers to filmtheirmost imaginative ways of squashing cartons and upload their clips onto YouTube.More details and some great entries can be found at www.howdoyousquashyours.co.uk. As an added incentive, you could be inwith a chance ofwinning a choice of a fantastic conservation holiday or an Eco TV, 50 great DVDs and a heap of smoothies orwine for the over 18's in Tetra Pak cartons.
