Recycling

Recycling is the process of turning unwanted items of rubbish into new items, which can be used again. By recycling our rubbish and using the same material again, we save natural materials and energy that would have been used to make new products.

The average British household uses six trees worth of paper each year. For the whole of Britain, a forest 35 times the size of the New Forest would need to be cut down. If we all recycled the paper we use, we could save a lot of trees!

In Hampshire you can recycle paper, cardboard, drinks cans, food tins and plastic bottles by putting them in your recycling wheeled bin or clear sack. You can also recycle other items such as clothes and shoes, glass bottles and jars and tin foil in local recycling banks in most supermarket car parks. All of the items put into the recycling bins will be made into something new, so it is likely you could have helped to make some of the items you see on the shelves at the supermarket.

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Making recycled music!

Many of the songs we hear on the radio are re-releases of songs from years before, and so in theory are recycled! That is one way to make recycled music, but another way would be to make original music but using recycled instruments.

Ask the children to bring in some items of rubbish and have a craft lesson making instruments. The instruments could take the form of a guitar, maracas, or even be a little more inventive and try blowing through different tubes like a set of pan pipes!

To make a guitar:

1 Take a container, a tissue box or a margarine tub is ideal and a selection of rubber bands. (It is best to use different thicknesses of band as they will result in different sounds)

2 Stretch the bands over the container so that they are taut over the opening.

3 Pluck the bands to make guitar sounding music.

To make a maraca:

You will need

l A plastic bottle with a lid or a cardboard tube and an egg box to make the container.

l Some dried beans, seeds, or rolled up pieces of tin foil to act as the shaking material.

1 If you have a plastic bottle, all you will have to do is fi ll it with the beans/seeds/tinfoil balls and the screw on the lid.

2 If you have are using a cardboard tube and egg box, cut out two of the egg box cups. Secure one of the cups to the end of the toilet roll, making sure there are no gaps, and then fi ll it with your shaking material. Use the second cup to fi ll the open end of the toilet roll and secure closed with sticky tape.

Once the children have made an instrument, challenge them in small groups to compose a musical piece to present to the rest of the class.

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Recycling

Mini MRF (Materials Recovery Facility)

This is a fun practical activity, which is run by your local Offi cer.

There are two Material Recovery Facilities (or MRF’s) in Hampshire, one in Portsmouth and the other in Alton. All of the recyclable material collected from your recycling wheelie bins or clear sacks is taken a MRF to be sorted into the different materials to be sent of for re-processing.

The will bring along a model MRF and ask the children to help them to sort through

a selection of material that you might fi nd in a recycling wheelie bin.

The lesson aims to demonstrate what materials can be recycled and what can’t and how they are separated at the MRF to be sent for re-processing (a video of inside the Alton MRF,) can also be shown

exercise mimics real life manual sorting of the

recyclables. The Offi cer will also demonstrate what can be made

from recycled material. It will also teach the children to think more about what they throw away.

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to demonstrate how the practical

Education Officer

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Education

Recycling in School Role play- Getting everyone involved

If your school has yet to set up a school recycling programme or even if you have one already set up, it is benefi cial to understand the roles of everyone in the school and how they can help to make it work. Setting up a recycling system in school isn’t always easy, so why not put yourself in the shoes of others to see why they might or might not want to recycle.

1 Divide the class into two groups. One should be for recycling and one group against.

2 Within each group distribute the role cards (e.g. Head, cleaner, cook, caretaker).

3 Ask the children to think about their views as the person on the card; one group will be thinking about why that person might support recycling and the other group, why that person may be against recycling. They should prepare notes for a brief discussion.

4 Ask all of the children to act out their opinions as their person.

5 After each pair – the for and against points for each person, has delivered their points, discuss as a class possible solutions for making their job easier.

6 The solutions could be taken to the school council to help when setting up an in school recycling scheme.

Take a look on the website for further information and clue cards to give out to the children to get them started.

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The perfect home made gift for birthdays, Christmas or mother’s day! A fun and easy activity to make brightly coloured beaded jewellery.

You will need:

l Used or left over scraps of wrapping paper/coloured paperl 30cm rulersl Glue sticksl Pencilsl Thin plastic straws or similarl Scissorsl PVA gluel Shearing elastic

1 Mark out the outline of each bead onto the paper. The outline for each bead should make the shape of a long isosceles triangle measuring 1.5 cm along the base and approximately 30cm in height.

2 Cover the non-coloured side of the paper in glue – leaving 1cm without glue at the base of the triangle.

3 Now carefully roll each triangle around the straw, starting at the base of the triangle, so that as the paper is rolled around the straw the bead will become fatter in the middle.

4 When the bead is formed slide it off the straw (if the bead is stuck, the straw can be cut) and allow to dry.

5 To make the beads last longer, cover them with a light coating of PVA glue, which will also give them a nice shine!

6 Once all the beads are dry, thread them onto the shearing elastic to make a necklace or bracelet.

Recycled Bead Jewellery

The perfect home made gift for birthdays, Christmas or mother’s day! A fun and easy activity to make brightly coloured beaded jewellery.

You will need:

Used or left over scraps of wrapping paper/coloured paper30cm rulersGlue sticks

Thin plastic straws or similar

Mark out the outline of each bead onto the paper. The outline for each bead should make the shape of a long isosceles triangle measuring 1.5 cm along the base and approximately 30cm in height.

Cover the non-coloured side of the paper in glue – leaving 1cm Cover the non-coloured side of the paper in glue – leaving 1cm Cover the non-coloured side of the paper in glue – leaving 1cm without glue at the base of the triangle.

3 3 3 3 Now carefully roll each triangle around the straw, starting at the base of the triangle, so that as the paper is rolled around the straw the bead will become fatter in the middle.

When the bead is formed slide it off the straw (if the bead is stuck, the straw can be cut) and allow to dry.

To make the beads last longer, cover them with a light coating of PVA glue, which will also give them a nice shine!

Once all the beads are dry, thread them onto the shearing elastic to make a necklace or bracelet.

Recycled Bead Jewellery

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Can, Can, Yoghurt Pot

Remember Duck Duck Goose, well this is a recycling version. Ask all of the children to sit in a large circle. One child must stand up and walk around the outside of the circle patting each child they pass on the head and say ‘can’. At some point on their journey around the circle the child must pat someone on the head and instead of ‘can’, say ‘yoghurt pot’. On hearing this non-recyclable item the child patted on the head must stand up and run around the circle after the fi rst child. If the fi rst child gets back to the second child’s empty seat without being tagged they have won and the second child must then take over, however if they are caught the fi rst child must can, can , yoghurt pot again.

If this is too easy why not introduce a few other items into the equation. Instead of just ‘cans’ the head patter can say any recyclable item – cans, tins, paper, cardboard, plastic bottles and then when they are ready to be chased say a non-recyclable item e.g. polystyrene, cling fi lm, nappies, crisp packets.

Recycling Run Around

Vote with your feet to recycling themed questions. In the school hall or playground, mark three different areas – A , B and C (the further apart the stations the further the children will have to run and the less last minute swapping!)

Download a list of questions from the website www.recycleforhampshire.org.uk to test the children on their recycling

knowledge.

Shout out the question and the choice of answers, and then, Ready, Steady, GO. All the children must run to one of the stations – A, B or C depending on which answer they think is correct. If the children are standing in the correct station they get to stay in the game, all those standing in the wrong stations are out! Keep asking the questions until you have one child left, they are the winner!

Quick Games for the end of the day!R

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Quick Games for the end of the day!

Recycling Bingo

Download a set of recycling bingo cards from the website www.recycleforhampshire.org.uk Ask the children to get into pairs and give each pair a bingo card. From the list of items, call out each in turn, ticking off the item as it is called out. When the pupils manage to get a line of recyclables they can shout out ‘Bin’ and when they get a full card, shout ‘Full Bin’!

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