Back to school with cool recycled stationery
Herefordshire Council is encouraging parents to consider kitting their children out with recycled stationery for the new school term.
The county council’s waste reduction team is asking mums, dads and children to think before they stock up on new stationery consider choosing recycled options like:
- Coloured pencils made from recycled CD cases or plastic cups
- Pencil cases made from recycled car tyres
- Rulers made from plastic cups or squashed plastic bags
- Pens made from recycled computer printers
- Notebooks made from recycled paper and circuit boards
- Purses made from recycled juice cartons
- Backpacks made from recycled plastic bottles
- Key rings and notebooks made from squashed plastic bags
- Clipboards made from recycled juice cartons and plastic bottles
The waste reduction team is encouraging schoolchildren to have a waste-free day by reusing their lunchbox and drinks bottle daily. It is also encouraging people to make it their mission to choose items with little or no packaging and compost their leftover apple cores and banana skins.
Laura Preece, Herefordshire Council’s recycling officer, said: “Simply replacing a disposable drink carton with a reusable drink bottle can significantly help to reduce the amount of waste created.”
A whole host of recycled goods can be found at http://www.recyclenow.org.uk/
Residents can be in with a chance of winning one of ten sets of cool recycled stationery by logging on to http://www.wastemissionimpossible.org.uk/ and clicking on the Pledge to Win link. People will be asked to pledge to have a waste-free day and tell the team five key things they will do to achieve it.
The county council’s waste reduction team is out and about at locations across Herefordshire and Worcestershire this summer in a bid to encourage more people to reduce, reuse and recycle their waste.
Residents can find out more about meeting members of the team and climbing aboard its recycling bus by visiting http://www.wastemissionimpossible.org.uk/ or calling 01905 766883.
