The Recycle Devon School website provides teachers, parents and youth groups with a wide range of resources to help teach our children how to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Compost more of their waste.
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Don’t let Devon go to waste
Bring recycling into the classroom with our comprehensive teaching resources, covering topics from Maths and Computing to Art and Design.
Our Waste and Recycling teaching resources link with the UK National Curriculum.
Educating children and young people is a vital part of Devon’s long term strategy to reduce waste.
We recognise that pupils and school staff can make a significant contribution to managing waste more sustainably in their schools, homes and wider communities. Since 2003, the Waste Education Team has worked with hundreds of schools across Devon and engaged with children over 250,000 times, encouraging and educating them about how to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost more of their waste.
Enter our new competition by producing a short comic or cartoon about sustainability, waste, recycling or over consumption.
From fast fashion through to the science of materials, test your knowledge with our fun quick quizzes covering all things recycling.
Promoting waste education in Devon with fun and engaging videos. Learn more about what happens to your waste.
Delivering a wide range of workshops, assemblies, resources, training and visits to support teachers to reduce waste.
Information and opportunities relating to environmental education, school gardening, composting, funding, waste and recycling.
Devon’s pioneering work has resulted in one of the most successful and advanced waste education programmes in the Country and is an essential part of Devon’s long term approach to waste management.
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