Work in Secondary Schools

Resource Futures is currently running secondary 3Rs education projects in Bristol, Devon, and North Somerset. Our work in secondary schools runs alongside the setting up and maintenance of recycling schemes and is provided free of charge. For more information about the logistics of school recycling in your area click here.

Assemblies and workshops

Assemblies are a good way to remind everyone about the importance of recycling, or to raise the profile of waste issues when a new school recycling system is being established.

Workshops include:

• Waste audit:

Pupils gain a lively introduction to waste issues by investigating the waste generated by their school. They then learn about its impact on the environment and how they can take action to help.

• Packed lunch waste audit

This investigation of the waste produced by students' packed lunches leads to a discussion on packaging, incorporating issue of 'reduce' and 're-use' as well as 'recycle.'

• Paper audit
• Really rubbish quiz

• Sustainable packaging Using sustainable design to investigate the best way to package popular food and drink products.

Other workshops

Resource Futures' Education officers regularly work with other organisations, incorporating workshops on local and global waste issues into events such as Earth Summit, Year 9 Youth Summit, Young Innovations, and Going Global.

Workshops include:

‘Taking Old Bags Shopping’ - should there be a tax on plastic bags to reduce waste in the UK?
‘Getting people to SORT IT!*’
	Drink cans – a local or a global issue?’
	‘Mobile Phones – a local or a global issue?’
	‘Litter or Resource?’

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