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Competition
The environment? Child’s play!
It may be an inconvenient truth, but environmental education is increasingly key in the 21st century.
Ever found yourself wondering:
low-carbon package, made mainly from a million. Now, thanks to Tetra Pak and the
natural, renewable resource – wood, so they’re a carton industry’s Carton Recycling Scheme
u How to engage students with the issues
great way to get students discussing the daily for Schools, these paper-based cartons can be
and encourage behaviour change?
issues involved in the environmental choices we all recycled. The scheme enables schools to
u How to make your facilities greener?
face as consumers. contact their local carton recycling contractors
through a straight-forward web portal and set up
Tetra Pak UK, the carton manufacturer, are looking
Recycling in schools
collections. It is already available to schools across
to take the green load off your mind.
Each year a staggering 200 million milk and juice
over 53% of UK Local Authority areas, with more
We all know that students respond better to
cartons are used in England’s primary schools, while
coming soon.
real life examples. Cartons are a recyclable,
secondary schools get through more than 35
uwww.tetrapakrecycling.co.uk/schools
Changing behaviour
As for bringing these issues to life, Tetra Pak have
launched a competition to make sustainable
learning fun, asking people across the country
“How do you
squash yours?”
The premise is simple: if everyone squashed their
used cartons, we could fit up to three times more in
recycling banks and boxes, which helps reduce the
number of trucks on the road. To help students
become more recycling savvy, Tetra Pak are
challenging recyclers to film their most
imaginative ways of squashing cartons and
upload their clips onto YouTube. More details and
Here’s a few I made earlier...
some great entries can be found at
www.howdoyousquashyours.co.uk. As an
A few more ways to make the environment
really come to life:
added incentive, you could be in with a chance
u Carton Origami of winning a choice of a fantastic conservation
Frogs? Trees? Stars? Let your imagination
holiday or an Eco TV, 50 great DVDs and a
run wild and see what shapes your class can
create.
heap of smoothies or wine for the
u Things to make and do
over 18’s in Tetra Pak cartons.
Cartons are very versatile; they make
great pots for growing seeds, and can
even be used to make puppets, purses and
ten pin bowls.
Find more inspiration on crafts for the
whole class at
www.tetrapakrecycling.co.uk/downloads/
cartonart.pdf
September 2009 www.education-today.co.uk
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