Guidelines for using the Recycle Now Schools Marketing Materials

There are a range of awareness posters which schools can use. These are aimed at the following groups:

• primary school pupils;
• secondary school pupils;
• school staff; and
• “Why Recycle?” posters which you can choose to use with any audience.

The awareness posters can be displayed in classrooms, on notice boards, in corridors, foyers, offices, staffrooms, halls, or anywhere else in the school where there are members of the school community who you would like to encourage to take part in the recycling scheme.

The posters can be downloaded and printed off using a colour printer. We recommend that they are printed A3 size using recycled paper.

Schools can personalise Primary School Poster 3 by adding a photograph of the recycling containers which are used at their school together with the recycling monitors, or similar pupils and members of staff that are involved in looking after the school’s recycling scheme.

Please make sure that you use a 6x4” landscape photograph to fit the space on the poster. This can either be printed on a colour printer and stuck onto the poster; or taken to a photo processing shop to be processed. Some shops will be able to print the photograph onto adhesive paper to make attaching it to the poster even easier.

Indoor recycling bin stickers:

Designed for use on the bins or boxes used to collect recycling inside school buildings, e.g. in classrooms, offices and staff rooms. The stickers help to make a school’s recycling containers more visible and easily identifiable and tie in with the national Recycle Now campaign.

There is a separate sticker for each material (e.g. paper, cans, food waste) and each sticker has a ‘tick and cross’ section to show what can and cannot be accepted in the your individual school’s recycling scheme. This helps to make sure that everyone using the bins is aware of what can and cannot be accepted in them and can reduce contamination of recycling bins (i.e. the wrong materials being put into recycling bins).

Please note: the items listed in the ‘tick and cross’ sections on the online stickers are examples only and should be replaced by information on the individual school’s recycling scheme.

The bin stickers have been made available in Word, PDF and AI (Adobe Illustrator) format.

• If you have access to design services we recommend that you use the PDF or AI version of the stickers. Acrobat reader, the software that enables you to read PDFs, is free to download from http://www.adobe.com/.
• If you do not have access to design services you can download a simple Word version of the stickers and amend the ‘tick and cross’ section to reflect what can and cannot be accepted in the school’s recycling bins. To amend the Word template:
  > View the document in “print layout”;
  > Using the mouse, select the words in the ‘tick and cross’ sections that you wish to change;
  > Type in the words for each item using Arial font in size 18;
  > Each item should be separated with a bullet point. Please copy a bullet point from the existing list and paste each time you wish to add an item.

We recommend printing these stickers A4 size, and that you use crack-back plastic for ease of use and durability. If you are not able to print the stickers on adhesive paper you could use a colour printer and consider laminating them to increase their durability.

Indoor recycling point signs:

The recycling point signs have been designed to complement the indoor bin stickers and can be mounted on a wall above the recycling containers to make the recycling points more visible and easily identifiable.

We recommend printing these signs A4 size on recycled paper.

Outdoor bin stickers:

The outdoor bin stickers have been designed for use on the external recycling bins used to store recycling outside the school buildings. There is a separate sticker for each material (e.g. paper, cans, food waste). Again, they can help to make containers more visible and easily identifiable and also tie in with the national Recycle Now campaign.

We recommend printing these stickers at least A3 size in width using UV proof ink and that you use crack-back plastic (laminated on one side) for ease of use and durability.

Recycle here signs:

The recycle here signs can be used to clearly mark recycling points around the school:

Indoors e.g. on walls, notice boards etc. to visually highlight recycling points or group together recycling point signs and awareness posters.
Outdoors e.g. mounted on a post or on a wall above or alongside recycling bins.

We recommend printing these signs on recycled paper for internal use and producing a metal sign for external use.