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What can I do today?

• Start recycling at home
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Why recycling matters

• What more can I do?
• Recycling symbols explained
• Why it matters
  • What happens to our recycling
  • Let's keep a good thing going
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• Packaging
  • Less Packaging is on the way...
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  • What has been done so far?
• Waste Electronics
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News

• UK - men are rubbish at recycling
• Less than 50 per cent recycle electronic waste
• North Herts recycling hits record figures
• Bra reuse campaign
• Recycled glass market grows through bulk wine importing
• Dismantle don’t destroy!
• McDonald's waste experiment is a success
• Batteries collected at Glastonbury Festival
• Back to school and learning the 3 R’s
• Wiltshire Carton Recycling
• Rhythm and Recycle
• Growth of household food packaging brought to a standstill
• ‘Freecycle’ event planned
• Move to 100 per cent recycled plastic bottles
• Recycling DVD is a hit
• Give your fridge a second life...in Africa!
• Live plastic free for a month
• Building a green 2012 Olympics
• Cost of printing stacks up for British companies
• From polystyrene to carrot tops…
• Children devise litter-busting idea for fast food outlets
• Last year’s top fashions can become this year’s top recycling
• Europe’s biggest recycling centre to set up in the UK
• Mall sold on recycling
• Time to join the big tidy-up!
• Take a tour of rubbish attraction!
• Recycling Centre made from recycled materials
• National Trust cuts plastic bags by 95 per cent
• Trading standards to advise on packaging waste
• Pledge & win!
• Indoor Recycling Centre opens for business
• Credit crunch forces charities to recycle more
• People "too reliant on councils" to recycle
• Boost for tyre recycling service
• Food recycling scheme to be extended
• Hundreds grab a green cone to help recycling
• Basildon beats targets for recycling waste
• City is first to recycle your old batteries
• Severnside purchases Vale Paper
• Keep recycling is the message...
• Its official - Recycle Now is a top website…
• Compact solution to recycling
• St Albans based recycling firm celebrates 140 years of business
• City schools get free recycling DVD
• UK's prisons go to the mattress for recycling
• Recycle Warehouse gives life to old electrical goods
• Recycling the value of thriftiness
• Birmingham celebrates IT recycling
• Suit made of recycled rubbish for sale
• Cooking oil can be recycled into energy at sites
• WEEE recycling available at Glastonbury Festival this year
• Litter and recycling

Fun stuff

Home Composting

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• Making compost
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  • Getting the right mix
  • Making the perfect leafmould
• Using your compost
  • Using compost around the garden
  • Getting the compost out of the bin
  • Dressing your lawn with compost
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• Get advice
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Schools

• Recycle at school guide
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    • How much does your school waste?
    • Get your recycling collected
    • How to set up your recycling bins
    • The benefits of recycling
      • Learning opportunities
      • Contribution to school achievement
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  • Get the whole school involved
  • Keep it going
    • Why include recycling in your school policy?
    • What to include in a recycling policy
    • Turning policy into practice
    • Raising awareness within your school
  • Activity lesson plans
    • Waste audit
    • Action plan
    • Recycle races
    • The possibilities are endless
    • Waste-free lunch
  • Success stories
    • Raising awareness of environmental issues
    • Recycling multiple materials in our school
    • Recycling paper in our school
    • Recycling & school achievement
    • Saving money for our school
    • Bringing the curriculum to life
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• Compost

Recycle week

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  • Home composting
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  • Look for new ‘Recycle’ labels
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  • Squash and recycle all cartons
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  • Go waste-free for a day
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  • Choose peat-free compost
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  • Use leftovers for lunch
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  • Bags back to shops
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  • Recycle old electrical items
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  • Recycle all papers and magazines
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  • Recycle all glass bottles and jars
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  • Recycle my textiles
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