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For school recycling information, including activities linked to the curriculum and free resources, visit the following websites: 

Recycle Now 

Provides information, advice and activities for primary and secondary schools. It also guides you through the process of setting up and maintaining effective recycling schemes.

Keep Britain Tidy 

Keep Britain Tidy runs the international Eco-Schools programme in England and is all about getting school communities to be more sustainable. 

Recycle More 

Offers information for pupils and teachers, key stage activities, games and facts.

London Environmental Education Forum (LEEF) 

LEEF is a networking organisation that aims to support, facilitate and promote environmental education across London. They organise training workshops and events and circulate information to raise the profile of environmental education within the media. 

Sustainability and Environmental Education (SEEd) 

SEEd is a registered charity that identifies, promotes, enables and supports environmental education and education for sustainable development in the UK. They are an umbrella, membership organisation for Non-Government Organisations (NGOs), schools, colleges, universities, local authorities and educators interested in Environmental Education and ESD and the environment.

ecoACTIVE

EcoACTIVE is an innovative environmental education charity with a reputation for using hands-on, practical and fun approaches to explore complex issues of sustainability. 

Circus Takeaway 

Circus Takeaway run Theatre in Education shows and workshops in schools. Each show has its own enticing backdrops, props and unique costumes. Shows always involve juggling, magic, physical skills, comedy and songs. 

Waste Watch 

Waste Watch develop education programmes, training and curriculum-linked resources to support schools become sustainable and build relationships with the wider community.

Art in Education

Art in Education delivers dynamic, imaginative and multi-disciplinary creative education projects for a diverse range of people including toddlers, special needs individuals, young people, artists, adults, and the general public.

Did you know...

According to WRAP, on average, primary schools generate 45kg of waste per pupil per academic year (40 weeks) and secondary schools 22kg per pupil per academic year, mostly made up of food waste and paper and card (between 70 and 75%)