Junior Recycling Officer resources

Welcome to our Junior Recycling Officer Resources Page. We aim to provide you with information and download resources which we hope will be useful to you in promoting the 3R's 'Reduce, Reuse and Recycle' in your school community and with family and friends.

Where our recycling goes

The story of the little red chair

You can use the  little red chair video to teach your school about recycling. The Junior Recycling Officers can read from this  script (PDF, 145KB) while showing the video.

Assemblies

Junior Recycling Officers helped us create an assembly about recycling. You can write your own script and change it to suit your school.

• Recycling Assembly (MS Powerpoint, 10.8MB)
• Recycling Assembly (PDF, 1MB)

Recycled crafts

Find out how to make gift boxes, wallets and bracelets from recycled materials using the instructions below.

• Greeting card box (PDF, 172KB)
• Juice carton wallets (PDF, 288KB)
• Button bracelet guide (PDF, 137 KB)

Colouring-in posters

You could use these posters to run a colouring competition in your school.

• Cans colouring poster (PDF, 963KB)
• Newspaper colouring poster (PDF, 488KB)

Love Food Hate Waste

7 million tonnes of food is thrown away every year. You could print off these posters and display them in your school.

• Broccoli lovers poster (PDF, 377KB)
• Lamb lovers poster (PDF, 1MB)
• Pasta lovers poster PDF (PDF, 1MB)
• Apple lovers poster (PDF, 64KB)
• Potato lovers poster (PDF, 63KB)
• Food waste cards (PDF, 5MB)