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Waste Education Resource Packfor Nurseries and Pre-schools

From the Northamptonshire Waste Education Team

Contents

1 Who are we?

2 How to use the pack

4 Teachers notes

10 Using a song

12 Activities and resources

36 Ideas for Interactive Displays

38 Home Corner Ideas

46 Useful contacts

47 Buying Recycled

49 Useful websites

51 Useful books

52 Thank you’s

53 Evaluation and feedback forms

Introduction – Who are we?

Waste, or rubbish, is a very prominent part of society. We all produce waste and we all have the responsibility to dispose of our waste in the most appropriate way. Thinking of our responsibility often leads us to the 3 R’s of waste management – REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE! It is important for us to practice the 3R’s and instil these words and values into the younger generation. If we don’t do something about our ever growing waste problem now … then by the time the next generation are adults … the problem will be more severe and much less manageable.

This pack has been created by The Northamptonshire Waste Education Team to aid nurseries, pre-schools and other early years establishments in delivering Waste Education to their pupils. The children that they work with are our future and should be taught about the issues as well as the ways in which they will be asked to help in reducing the problem as they grow up.

The Northamptonshire Waste Education Team is a partnership project between the 7 District and Boroughs of Northamptonshire and the Northamptonshire County Council. The aim of the team is to work with schools throughout the County to pro-vide free waste education sessions for their pupils. Whilst the team does not work directly within nurseries it is hoped that this pack will provide a better alternative as the staff that work with the children know them best and can deliver a programme that they see to be most suitable for their group.

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How to use this pack

Aim

The aim of this pack is to provide you with information and ideas on how to deliver waste education to children in your care as a nursery, pre-school or other early years establishment. We do not anticipate you using every aspect of the pack but hope that you will find parts of it useful for your group of children.

What is included

Within the pack we have included suggestions for activities that can be run as one or more of the options to their normal activities. In order to run these activities we have provided, where necessary, the resources that you will need.

We have also included suggestions for displays that can be set up by the adults or as part of the activities in which the pupils take part. The aims of the displays are to provide a visual reference for the children as well as for the adult visitors, such as parents.

Ideas for home corners have been presented to allow the children to learn about waste management through role play. To some extent these areas will need to be introduced to the children as some of the ideas within them may be new to their learning

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How the pack can be used

Needless to say this is not the only way the pack can be used but merely our vision when we created it.

• We have included an A3 story about recycling which is what we believe could be used to introduce the topic on a specific day which may cover just recycling and/or various other environmental ideas. Once the topic has been introduced the activi-ties could be set out for the pupils to take part in on their environment day or as a regular part of their play over a period of several weeks.

• If the topic were to be used over a longer period the story could be revisited to remind pupils about the reasons for taking part in the various activities that are linked to the topic. In addition, during circle time or your equivalent periods of group activity, various songs can be sung to encourage pupils to take an active part in recycling at home.

• In order to engage parents and carers, and to encourage the pupils to talk to their parents or carers about the activities that they have been engaged in, we have included various display ideas. Some of these ideas include work that the pupils have done themselves, or are interactive displays that the parents and carers can look at whilst involving their wards.

As stated at the beginning of this section, however you choose to use this resource pack. We hope that it proves useful to you in supporting your pupils in their learn-ing about a highly topical and important subject.

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Teacher notes – Information on Waste and the 3 R’s

How much waste do we create?

We all produce rubbish whether it is empty drink cans, left over food or clippings from the garden. The average person in the UK throws out their body weight in rubbish every 7 weeks. Over 31 million tonnes of waste is collected from households in the UK every year. That’s the equivalent of each household in the UK creating over 1 tonne of rubbish in a year.

So where does it all go?

Currently in Northamptonshire approximately 45% of waste is recycled and composted. The remainder is landfilled – buried in a hole in the ground. Landfilling rubbish is not an ideal way of dealing with waste. Many sites are nearly full and we are rapidly running out of suitable space for new landfills; and yet we are producing more and more rubbish!

What other problems are there?

Landfills have many issues. As already discussed we are running out of landfill space, but on top of this landfills are no longer a viable option as there are numerous environmental concerns that surround them.

The biggest concern involves the release of methane from the rotting organic matter, such as food and garden waste, within the landfills. Whilst some of the gas is harvested to generate energy most of it is released into the atmosphere. As methane is a greenhouse gas, contributing to climate change, the European Union has chosen to regulate landfills closely and try to encourage member states to look for alternatives. Within Europe a number of countries have improved their recycling rates for example in The Netherlands they have a recycling rate of 64%. Whilst the UK is continuously improving, we still have a fair way to go to catching up with these targets.

Additional concerns include the loss of resources and issues over the need to transport our waste long distances to landfills. When we dispose of a material into a landfill, we effectively lose that resource for good. Many resources that we are putting into our landfills, such as plastics that are made from oil and various metals, are running low and as such are very valuable. It would make more sense to recycle these materials, not only to utilise a valuable resource but also to prevent more environmental damage that is caused when areas are cleared to mine for a resource.

With landfill space becoming less available, much of our waste has to be transported over longer distances in order to put it into a landfill. For example, there are few landfills in the London area, therefore much of the waste has to be transported further north and south. In addition, land that could be used for a landfill could also potentially be used for housing or other infrastructure.

All in all landfills are not the best option, so what can we do about it?

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What can you do to help?

ReduceWhen we ask people to reduce the amount of waste they create we are asking them to think about how they can actually cut back on the amount of waste they create in the first place, even before considering reusing items and recycling them. Reducing is a difficult concept as it does involve trying to make choices which are limiting. For example trying to choose items with less packaging. However, there are several ways in which we can reduce our waste and quite often it can save us money.

• When shopping, avoid goods that have too much packaging,

especially polystyrene.

• Buy loose fruits and vegetables.

• Buy refillable packaging for things like washing powder.

• Consider using real cotton nappies rather than disposable nappies

• When keeping food, why not use tubs instead of cling film or foil.

• Avoid disposable paper cups and plates

ReuseReuse has gone out of fashion a little. Gone are the days when you would fix something when it was broken. Now you just buy a new one. However, there are still plenty of people who do try to reuse and plenty of opportunities. Young people are often keen reuses in the sense that they will often use old bits of rubbish to make things. There is plenty that everyone can do, here are just a few ideas …

• Get a pair of shoes reheeled.

• Give a sofa a fresh lease of life by refurbishing it.

• Give your unwanted items that are still in good condition to charity shops so

that they can be re-used by someone else.

• Have a book/toy/clothes swap day in your community.

• Repaint/fix old bikes to be reused.

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RecycleRecycling is the processing of waste products to provide the raw material to make new items. Recycling uses less energy and causes less pollution than using raw materials and also reduces the amount of waste being sent to disposal. Although many of us can recycle certain items easily through our waste collection schemes, for some of us and for some items we still need to make a bit of an effort. There are also many items that people forget that you can recycle.

• Recycle your mobile phones and printer cartridges through a variety of

companies (search on the internet), either to make a few pounds for

yourself or to help out a charity.

• Buy a compost bin and compost your organic waste – recycling it into

something that you can use on your garden.

• Buy recycled products.

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Waste Management in Northamptonshire

Waste collection and disposal within Northamptonshire involves various levels of local government and numerous supporting organisations. Within local government, the County Council works closely with the District and Borough councils to effectively deal with waste in Northamptonshire. Although the County Council and the District and Borough councils organise the collection and disposal of waste and recycling from households, they also contract out some of these task to private industries. At present all of the Councils involved are working within a partnership and are working to make the collection and disposal of waste more efficient (for more information on the Northamptonshire Waste Partnership please visit www.recyclefornorthamptonshire.gov.uk.)

Alternatives for residual waste treatment, which is how to deal with all the rest of the waste that can’t be recycled, is currently being looked into. We are considering alternatives to landfill. Please visit our website for more information - www.northamptonshire.gov.uk - Environment and Planning section

Within the County Council there are two main areas within Waste Management, the Waste Minimisation Team and the Waste Operations Team. Both departments run different projects but work closely together to achieve an efficient and effective waste management service.

Waste OperationsThe waste operations department organise and run the county recycling centres. They are also responsible for co-ordinating with the District and Borough councils and industry for disposing of the waste collected from households. The District and Borough councils co-ordinate the collection rounds and who run the collection and recycling rounds.

Waste MinimisationThe waste minimisation department works towards trying to get the public to reduce the amount of waste that they create. Within the team there are several campaigns and projects. Here are just a few that are currently running.

The Real Nappies Campaign – a campaign to encourage parents to consider using cloth nappies instead of disposable nappies. There is a cash back scheme being run in order to help parents who choose to use real nappies and help to reduce the amount of waste that is created.

Composting - we are run a scheme that allows the general public to buy compost bins and accessories at discounted prices.

Slim Your Bin at School – a partnership project between the 7 District and Borough Councils of Northamptonshire and the Northamptonshire County Council. The objective of Slim Your Bin @ School is to increase waste awareness – the need to reduce, reuse and recycle rubbish in Northamptonshire. Slim Your Bin @ School involves two aspects; an opportunity to set up a recycling scheme in your school and a dedicated schools’ education team that provides FREE waste education sessions to schools throughout Northamptonshire. Visit www.slimyourbinatschool.co.uk for more information.

For more information on any of these projects and on other projects that the team are running please visit our website – www.northamptonshire.gov.uk – Environment and Planning section or visit www.recyclefornorthamptonshire.co.uk

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Interesting Little Facts About WasteGeneral• In less than two hours, the waste we produce would fill the Albert Hall in London.

• Every year we produce about 3% more waste than the year before. This might not sound much but, if we carry on at this rate, it means that we will double the amount of waste we produce every 25 years

Paper• Almost five million tonnes of waste paper are still sent to landfill or incineration each year

• Each Christmas as much as 83 square kilometres of wrapping paper ends up in UK rubbish bins, enough to cover an area larger than Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands.

Glass bottles• Glass is 100% recyclable and can be endlessly recycled with no loss in quality.

• On average, every family in the UK uses around 330 glass bottles and jars each year. However, we only recycle 30% of these containers. Plastic bottles• An estimated 13 billion plastic bottles are disposed of each year

• 11% of household waste is plastic, 40% of which is plastic bottles

• It takes just 25 x 2 litre pop bottles to make one adult size fleece jacket.

• Recycling 1 tonne of plastic bottles save 1.5 tonne of carbon

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Interesting Little Facts About WasteMetals• Aluminium is the third most abundant element in the earth’s crust and is the earth’s second most used metal

• Every minute of every day, an average of 113,200 aluminium cans are recycled.

• If all the aluminium drinks cans recycled in the UK last year were laid end to end, they would stretch from John O’Groats to Land’s End 140 times

• Recycling 1 kg of aluminium saves 8kg of bauxite, 4kg of chemical products and 14 Kilowatts of electricity

• The energy saved by recycling 1 aluminium drink can is enough to run a television for three hours

Organic Waste• UK households throw away between £250 and £400 of potentially edible food every year.

• 1.3 million unopened yogurt pots and 440,000 ready meals are thrown away each year.

• It has been calculated that, before they are toilet trained, the average child goes through 3,796 nappies, most of which end up buried in landfill sites.

Facts taken from Recycling Glass, Recyclezone, Recycle-more or ‘The Food We Waste’ report produced by WRAP.

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Creating a Song

In order to create our songs we have simply put some different wording to well known tunes.

How to Wash and Squash

This song is sung to the tune of ‘Here we go round the mulberry bush …’

Words

This is the way we …

Verse 1 – wash our bottles

wash our bottle,

wash our bottles,

This is the way we wash our bottles

All day long


Verse 2 – squash our bottles

All day long


Verse 3 – recycle our bottles

All day long

Action

Washing actions

Squashing action – hands together

or steeping on a bottle

Draw an imaginary circle in the air

with you arms – mimic the

recycling symbol

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How to Wash and Squash

This song is sung to the tune of ‘This is the way the ladies ride, clip, clop, …’ You could also consider using the different materials as ‘drums’ in this song. If you did, perhaps change the paper line to cardboard as it would create a better sound.

Words

Verse 1 – This is the way we recycle our plastic

Squish, squash, squish, squash

Verse 2 – This is the way we recycle our glass,

Smashady, clash, smashady, clash

Verse 3 – This is the way we recycle our cans

Tinkaty, tonk, tinkaty, tonk

Verse 4 – This is the way we recycle our paper

Flippedy, flop, flippedy, flop

Now it’s all gone!

Action

Stamping actions (as if squashing bottles)

Clapping hands together (as though glass smashing down)

Dropping actions with hands alternatively with each word

Place hands one on top of other

Shrug your shoulders

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Activities

Were possible we have linked our activities into the seven areas of learning and development, taken from “Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage” (Department for Education 2012) so that the activities are can be used within the learning environment, rather than as stand alone activities.

The seven areas of learning and development

Communication and language development involves giving children opportunities to experience a rich language environment; to develop their confidence and skills in expressing themselves; and to speak and listen in a range of situations.

Physical development involves providing opportunities for young children to be active and interactive; and to develop their co-ordination, control, and movement. Children must also be helped to understand the importance of physical activity, and to make healthy choices in relation to food.

Personal, social and emotional development involves helping children to develop a positive sense of themselves, and others; to form positive relationships and develop respect for others; to develop social skills and learn how to manage their feelings; to understand appropriate behaviour in groups; and to have confidence in their own abilities.

Literacy development involves encouraging children to link sounds and letters and to begin to read and write. Children must be given access to a wide range of reading materials (books, poems, and other written materials) to ignite their interest.

Mathematics involves providing children with opportunities to develop and improve their skills in counting, understanding and using numbers, calculating simple addition and subtraction problems; and to describe shapes, spaces, and measures.

Understanding the world involves guiding children to make sense of their physical world and their community through opportunities to explore, observe and find out about people, places, technology and the environment.

Expressive arts and design involves enabling children to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials, as well as providing opportunities and encouragement for sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of activities in art, music, movement, dance, role-play, and design and technology.

Taken from the Statutory Framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage(Department for Education 2012)

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Reuse Activities

Milk Top FlowersThe children will use the tops from plastic milk bottles to create flowers that can be used as butterfly feeders.

Aim: To create flowers from plastic milk tops. To learn about the reuse of materials.

Key vocabulary: reuse, plastic, recycle

Resources: Milk tops from plastic bottles, flower stencils, glue, sponge, sugar water

Activity: Allow the children to colour in their own flower outline (optional; Allow pupils to cut out their flower) Once the flower has been cut out, allow the pupils to stick a piece of sponge into the middle of their bottle top and then stick their bottle top into the middle of their flower. When the glue is dry, add a few droplets of sugar water to the sponge and leave outside away from disturbance and strong winds.

In addition to this activity, get the pupils to put the plastic bottles, minus their lids, into the recycling box.

This activity will help to meet the following Early Learning Goals:Expressive Arts and DesignUnderstanding the World

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Flower stencils

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Plastic Bottle Bird FeedersThe children use plastic bottles to create bird feeder. This activity involves a large amount of adult involvement.

Aim: To help children to understand that rubbish can be useful.

Resources: Plastic bottle, string, bird seeds, scissors, strong twig or piece of wood.

Key vocabulary: reuse, plastic,

Activity: Cut one or more holes in the side of your bottle, large enough to allow a free flow of seeds. In addition, make a few small holes in the base to allow rain water to drain out. Whilst doing this also make a hole in the centre of the base through which you will be threading your string. Tie your strong twig to one end of the string and thread the other end through the hole in the centre of the base. Pull the sting through to the top of the neck of the bottle. Make a hole through the bottle top and pull the string through this hole as well. Screw the bottle top onto the bottle to prevent water getting into the bird seed. (If you are unable to make a hole in the bottle top, pull the string through the mouth of the bottle and stuff the bottle mouth with plastic bags to minimize rain water getting in) Finally, fill your bottle with bird seed and tie your bird feeder up in a sheltered area to prevent the wind blowing it around too much. (For added stability, use wire instead of string)

This activity will help to meet the following Early Learning Goals:Understanding the World

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Sparkling Decorations

The children bottle top decorations that could be used for Christmas.

Aim: To create decorations from plastic milk tops. To learn about the reuse of materials.

Key vocabulary: reuse, plastic, recycle

Resources: Needle, cotton thread, plastic milk bottle tops, sticky labels for name tags, glitter and glue

Activity: Use the needles and thread to create a loop for the bottle top to hang from. Using milk bottle tops are best as they are a softer plastic and so it is easier to thread the needle through. You could use aluminium bottle tops from glass bottles as an alternative as the aluminium can also be quite soft.

Get the children to cover their milk bottle top in glue and then dip it in glitter. Use a sticky label to write the child’s name onto and tape around one hanging thread. Hang the bottle tops up to dry.

In addition to this activity, get the pupils to put the plastic bottles, minus their lids, into the recycling box.


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Plastic Bottle Flower Pots

The children create flower pots from plastic bottles and old magazines.

Aim: To create flower pots from plastic bottles and scrap paper

Key vocabulary: Reuse, plastic, paper, compost.

Resources: Plastic bottles, colourful scrap paper from magazines, cellulose adhesive, PVA glue, (paints and sponges optional)

Activity: Cut the neck and shoulder off the plastic bottles (optional). Get the children to cut up or tear up small pieces of colourful paper from the magazines and then get them to glue the scraps colour side down onto their bottles. Then get them to tear up scraps of newspaper and glue a layer of paper over the top. Finally get the children to add another layer of colourful papers facing outwards.

Allow the bottles to dry. (Optional – once dry mix up paints of similar colours to the paper used on the bottle and using sponges dab the paint over the bottles. Leave to dry). To finish the flower pots off add a layer of PVA glue as a varnish.


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Apple Bird Feeders

The children use old apples to create bird feeder.


Resources: An old apple, lard, string, bird seeds, paper bags, strong twig or piece of wood.

Key vocabulary: Reuse, food waste, organic waste, compost.

Activity: Using a teaspoon, allow pupils to dig out several holes in the side of their apple. Keep the bits of apple that have been removed for use later. Use the handle of the teaspoon to make a hole through the pupil’s apple along the core. Make the hole larger by giving the teaspoon a few turns.

Tie one end of the string to the twig. Thread the other end of the string through the hole in the apple along the core. Allow the pupils to use the teaspoon handle to push the string through. The apple should now hang from the string with the twig as a stand for birds.

Mix the lard, bits of apple and bird seed together. Allow pupils to stuff this into the other holes that were created on the apple. This will then provide the birds with a healthy mix of items to encourage them to visit the pupil’s bird feeder. This is particularly useful for birds in the autumn and winter months.


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Minibeast home

The children create a woodpile in the garden for a mini-beast home


Resources: Old bits of wooden furniture broken up.

Key vocabulary: Mini-beast, organic, furniture, wood, reuse

Activity: Talk to children about mini-beasts and where they like to live. Then talk to them about how you can create a home for them from old bits of wooden furniture.

Allow children to build a log pile from old broken up bits of furniture. Please encourage the children to wear gloves and check the wood for splinter and sharp ends and edges.

Revisit the wood pile after a few and on regular occasions to observe the mini-beasts that make their home in the wood pile.


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Desktop Wormery

Create a small wormery that the pupils can see the worms at work, consuming the organic material that they put into the

Aim: To learn about the work that worms do to recycle our organic waste

Key vocabulary: Compost, worms, organic, living, recycling

Resources: 2 litre clear plastic drinks bottle or large glass jar, sand, soil, compost, organic waste – leaves in particular, worms (2 per wormery – you can buy them or collect them from the garden).

Activity: Cut the top end of the plastic bottle off, about a quarter of the way down. Keep the top end to one side. Make small holes in the base to allow liquids to drain out. Allow the children to put alternate layers of sand, soil and compost into the bottle until just over half full. Place the worms in to the desktop wormery and allow the children to then over the surface with organic matter. Then take the bottle lid and place upside down over the base and wormery. Tape the lid in place. Store the wormery in a fairly dark area.

Every few days take the wormery out and show the pupils what the worms have eaten and how they have mixed up the layers of sand, compost and soil.

If you have issues with worms escaping through the hole in the lid of the bottle (which can happen) then seal this hole up and place some pin size holes in the top of the bottle to allow air into the wormery.


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Reuse Activities

Plastic bottles wash and squash

The children will prepare plastic bottles for recycling.

Aim: To help children to understand that plastic bottles need to be washed and squashed before the bottles are put in the recycling box

Resources: Water tray, various plastic bottles, aprons, recycling box

Key vocabulary: Plastic bottle, wash squash.

Activity: : Use this activity to explain to the children that you need to wash out plastic bottles before they are recycled. Show the children how to wash the bottles. Discuss why we need to do this. Fill a container with bottles and then squash the bottles. Show the children how you can fit more bottles into the container if the bottles are squashed.

Remind the children to take the lids off if they can’t be recycled and it would be dangerous to have them on if they were squashing the bottles.


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Recycle, Compost or Rubbish?

The children will sort out their rubbish from snack or lunch into rubbish for recycling, the compost bin or the waste bin.

Aim: To help children to understand that rubbish can be useful and about how to reduce waste in amount of waste going into their bins.

Resources: Rubbish from snack, recycling boxes, waste bin, compost collection box, examples of recycled items

Key vocabulary: rubbish, recycling, landfill, worms, mini-beast, foil, plastic, paper, clingfilm, organic, compost

Activity: Use this activity to explain to the children that rubbish can be useful. Explain that some rubbish can be recycled and made into new things – show examples. Some materials can be eaten by worms and mini-beasts and ends up as compost. But some rubbish is not useful and will end up in a big hole in the ground – called a landfill. Use this activity to show best practice at snack/lunch time.

In addition, you could also show examples of items that can be reused for packing their lunches in to.

This activity will help to meet the following Early Learning Goals:Understanding the World Communication and Language

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Sort rubbish for recycling

The children will sort out the rubbish for recycling into the different recycling boxes.

Aim: To help children to understand that some rubbish is useful and that this rubbish needs to be sorted into different recycling boxes.

Resources: Waste bin, various examples of waste for recycling and waste for the waste bin, recycling boxes.

Key vocabulary: Waste bin, recycling.

Activity: Show the children an overflowing bin. Explain that the rubbish from the bin goes to a big hole in the ground – called a landfill. Discuss that some of the rubbish in the bin could have been recycled. Show the children how to sort the rubbish according to the type of materials: paper, plastic bottles, drinks cans, food cans and organic waste for composting.

This activity will help to meet the following Early Learning Goals:Understanding the World Communication and Language

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Material sort

The children will find materials hidden in a sand pit. Then match them to materials shown as examples.

Aim: To help children to identify different materials: plastic bottles, cardboard, paper, drinks cans and food cans.

Resources: Various materials hidden in the sand pit. Examples of materials: cardboard, paper, drinks cans (tape down sharp edges), plastic bottles.

Key vocabulary: Plastic, cardboard, paper, drinks cans, food cans.

Activity: Show the children how to search for materials in the sand pit. Then find the materials that are the same from the collection of examples.


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Recyclable materials fishing

The children will use magnets on ‘fishing’ rods to pick out pictures of items for recycling. Use with older children only due to the paper clips being a swallowing hazard.

Aim: To learn which materials can be recycled.

Key vocabulary: Recycling, plastic, cardboard, paper, drinks cans, food cans, glass.

Resources: Sticks with string tided on the end, magnets, paper clips, material cards, hoop (or string), recycling box

Activity: Cut out the materials cards and place a paperclip on the end. Tie a magnet onto the end of the ‘fishing rods’. Place the materials cards with paper clips spread around the area of the hoop (or circle created by the string). The children then fish out a card using the rods and then place the card into the recycling box.


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Paper - Envelope

Plastic bottle -Drinks bottle

Cardboard - Cereal box

Drink can

Glass bottle

Paper - Newspaper Paper - Magazine

Plastic bottle- Milk bottle

Plastic bottle - Washing up bottle

Cardboard - Egg box

Cardboard box

Food can Small food can

Glass bottle Glass bottle

Material Cards

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Posting rubbish

The children will pass around a bag containing pictures of materials that can be recycled.

Aim: To learn how to positively interact with others through a game. To identify the materials that can be recycled.

Key vocabulary: Recycling, plastic, cardboard, paper, drinks cans, food cans.

Resources: Box for posting recycling cards into, bag, recyclable material cards.

Activity: Children sit in a circle and pass the bag of recyclable materials around. When it is their turn they take a card out and tell the rest of the group what they have by looking at the picture. They then post it into the box for recycling.

This activity will help to meet the following Early Learning Goals:Personal, Social and Emotional DevelopmentCommunication and LanguageUnderstanding the World

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Recyclable materials cut outs

The children will cut out shapes that can be recycled and stick them to a display sheet.

Aim: To learn to identify the shapes of the items that can be recycled.

Key vocabulary: Recycling, plastic, cardboard, paper, drinks cans, food cans.

Resources: Cut out shapes, scissors, shape sheet and glue.

Activity: Children cut out the shapes of the recyclable materials and then match them to the correct picture of the material. They can then stick this picture down.

This activity will help to meet the following Early Learning Goals:Expressive arts and designUnderstanding the WorldPhysical Development

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Large Material CardsPlastic Bottle

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Glass Bottle

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Can - Drink

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Can - Food

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Comic

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Cereal Boxes

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Wiggly Worm Pictures

The children will create a picture using waste left-over food from their lunch.

Aim: To use organic waste to create a picture of a worm before putting the waste in a compost bin.

Key vocabulary: compost, worm, organic, living, recycling

Resources: Waste from lunch – fruit scraps and sandwich scraps. Not cooked food products or meat products.

Activity: Collect all of the appropriate waste left-over from lunch. You can add to this with organic waste, such as leaves, from outside of the classroom. Allow the children to create a picture of a worm using the waste. It is a good idea to create the picture in the outside area. When the children have finished collect up the waste and as a class put the waste into the compost bin.

Use gloves and/or wash hands after this activity.

This activity will help to meet the following Early Learning Goals:Expressive arts and designUnderstanding the World

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Ideas for DisplaysGeneral information display

You could choose a general focus on materials that you can recycle or make it more local by giving information on the materials that can be recycled in each of the recycling boxes/bins in you area.

In order to make a general information display more interactive so that pupils and parents look at the display, perhaps you could consider creating lift up flaps for the information that you display there. Or to give the pupils ownership of the display, get them to cut out the various recycling shapes that you will use.

Recycling Box FocusOne idea for the identifying of materials for the boxes is to create an envelope shape for the various boxes and bins. You could then get the pupils to slide their cut out shape into the appropriate box/bin when creating the display. Or you could leave the shapes stuck to the side of the display with blue tack so that they can then slide the shapes onto the display and appropriate bin with their parents. These shapes could then be taken out and placed on the side for another child and parent to have a go at.

To make the display accessible to the pupils the boxes/bins should have the shapes on the side so that they can use the shapes to try to recognise which box/bin their shape goes into. The best way to do this is to cut out the small materials shapes and stick these over the box/bin. For information on the recycling scheme in your area visit www.recyclefornorthamptonshire.gov.uk

Materials FocusInstead of focusing on what can go in to each recycling box/bin you could focus on the materials themselves. One way of setting this up would be to present this in a mind map fashion. Information on a material such as general facts and how to recycle it could then be presented around the material coming from the word recycle.

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Tree of progress display

To encourage the children to help with recycling at home and/or at the nursery you could create a display that builds up as the pupils work on different issues or materials and as they help to recycle. If you were focusing on different materials each week then you could gradually add the materials to the display until it shows all of the things that can be recycled.

You could use this to help with progression of more complex recycling In your area. For example start off with the easy items such as paper and work towards the harder items such as juice cartons that often can’t be recycled as cardboard but need to be taken to a recycling centre.

One idea for showing how the pupils are improving with their recycling knowledge is to create a tree of progress. You could use reward stickers to help show the development of the recycling in the nursery or of the individual. How you award these would be up to yourself but one way would be to have a branch of the tree for each material and add stickers to the materials branch every time a pupils recycles that material correctly. Alternatively you could have an individual branch for the pupils and every time they recycle any item correctly then they are rewarded with a sticker. You may need to build in recycling opportunities for the individuals, such as after snack time or when clearing up after an activity that has involved using materials that can then be recycled.

Changing Focus Display

Another display suggestion is one that changes focus over your Recycling Topic. The change of focus for the display could be surrounding a particular material or a recycling box or bin for your collection area.

Recycling Box FocusDisplay one of the boxes in the centre and around this you can add as much detail as you like with regard to the materials that go into the box. Getting the pupils to cut out the shapes of the materials (see activity page 22) that would go into the box so that they have some ownership over the display could encourage parents to look at it as well.

Using some of the facts on page nine to add detail to the display will provide parents with information on the various materials and the issues surrounding their disposal. You can also contact your local Recycling Officer who can provide information leaflets for parents if they wish to know more about their local scheme.

Materials FocusIn this display you could focus on a different material every week. Simply use a large image of a material in the centre of the display and around it use the pupils cut out shapes and the facts about each material to bulk out the information. To add more local information you could then display information on the collection box/bin for that material as part of the facts.

National CampaignsYou may like to use your displays to link in with national campaigns. The following campaigns are run every year and we would be happy to support your display by providing relevant posters and leaflets.

Compost Awareness WeekReal Nappy WeekRecycle Now weekWorld Environment Day

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Home CornersIntroduction

Home Corners would allow pupils to get involved in the ideas of reuse and recycling through their role play games. You can simply set these ideas up as part of existing home corners such as kitchens or supermarkets, or you can use the ideas here to give a more direct focus on some of the work that is actually carried out in the reuse and recycling industries.

We would also suggest considering setting up your own swap shop day for the parent to take part in. They could bring in old clothes, toys, books etc and swap them with each other. Any left over items, you could use yourselves or donate to a local charity shop.

Reuse Home CornersCharity Shop

Equipment• Cash desk• Tables to lay out items• Shop banner for a local charity shop• Boxes of items to put on the shelves• Price labels if appropriate

Instructions for set up

Simply set out the items on the tables and add price tags. Make the prices fairly low cost, as they would in a charity shop. Although this may be a difficult idea for the pupils to grasp it is still worth considering it as it will help to start building upon their understanding of charity shops and the benefits of shopping in them.

You could also provide bags of items for the children to bring in to the shop. They could then sort the items out and put them onto the shelves.

In addition, adding a banner with a name of a local charity shop may help the pupils to relate this home corner to a real local example.

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Recycling Home CornersMaterials Recycling Facility (MRF)

Where your household waste is sorted once it has been collected from your doorstep.

Equipment• Safety helmet – 1 or more• High visibility jacket – 1 or more• Ear defenders (you can just use ear muffs) – 1 or more• Gloves – 1 or more• Table• Large cardboard box• Light plastic broom • Small bags of clean rubbish – materials/items that can be recycled or a mix with other items to make playing more realistic but perhaps at bit harder• Bins labelled with different materials

Instructions for set upRemove flaps from one end of the cardboard box. On the end which still has the flaps, remove one flap from one of the edges and then cut a door way into the side.

On the opposite side to the open door way, create another door way slightly above the edge of the box. This will allow children to empty the rubbish into the boxes without it all falling out.

Decorate as you feel appropriate. Then tape the box to the table at one end, ensuring the remaining flaps to secure it down.

On the walls surrounding the home corner put up various safety posters and information posters – see provided resources

Running the MRF home cornerThe children empty the bags of rubbish into the cardboard box. They then use the broom to push the rubbish along the table – like a conveyor beltOther children spot the different materials in the rubbish and pick them off to put into the correct materials box.

Additional IdeasTo simulate the lorries collecting the recycling from the curb side, place various boxes of recycling around the room. Give the children a labelled cart (see resources) that they pull around, empty the boxes of recycling into and take back to the MRF for sorting.

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Safety Signs

Ear protectors must be worn

Hard hat must be worn

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Safety Signs

Ear protectors must be worn

Danger

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Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC)Equipment• High visibility jacket – 1 or more• Gloves – 1 or more• Various boxes• Table• Trays• Small bags of clean rubbish – materials/items that can be recycle or a mix with other items to make playing more realistic but perhaps at bit harder• 1 plain box or bin

Instructions for set upTo create the can and bottle banks you will need to cut out holes for posting the bottles and cans through. Place these a few centimetres down from the closed end of the box on one side (or two depending on the space you have available).

For the paper and cardboard banks you will need to cut slots into the boxes at roughly the same heights as the can and bottle banks.

Once you have done this, label the boxes as appropriate for each material.

Turn the boxes over the top of a tray on the table so that when the children post their rubbish into the recycling banks it lands on a tray, making it easier to tidy up and replace the rubbish to the bags.

Leave the plain box/bin at the end of the row of recycling banks for putting things into it that can’t be recycled

Running the HWRC home cornerThe children take their bags of rubbish to the HWRC and post the various items into the correct recycling bank. One or more of the children wear the jackets and glove and help the other children to sort out their rubbish.

Additional Ideas1. Instructions - Add a recycling factory – opposite the HWRC their could be another 2 boxes back to back. In the first box there needs to be an opening into which a particular material goes in. In the other box there needs to be a flap from which a new item, supposedly made from the recycled material could come out of.

Running the idea - Once the children have sorted their rubbish out the helpers could load the recycling into different carts and take these to a factory to be recycled into a new bottle etc.

The other children could come to the factory to buy the new item.

2. Add additional boxes for other items that can be recycled – Electronic equipment, juice cartons, garden waste, wood and clothing.

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Photos and labels for various banks

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Adapting other home cornersShopAdd recycling banks and clothing banks into the supermarket. Provide the children with bags of recycling that they are taking when going to the supermarket.Give the children reuse bags to take with them to the supermarket.Get the shop selling Eco friendly items including various items that are made from recycled materials – see list of useful websites at the end of the pack for places to buy these items.

Kitchen/HomeAdd your local areas recycling boxes into the kitchen. Find out about your local recycling scheme from www.recyclefornorthamptonshire.gov.uk. Use the photographs of the various boxes where appropriate (see end of pack) or put in in one box and places the boxes and bins ‘outside’ the house where they need to take the recycling to and then need to sort it out.

Include a kitchen caddy for collecting vegetable waste. Put a compost bin ’outside’ the house into which they empty their vegetable waste.

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Useful Contacts

Borough Council of Wellingborough Tel: 01933 229777 Email: [email protected]

Corby Borough CouncilTel: 01536 464000Email: [email protected]

Daventry District CouncilTel: 01327 871100 Email: [email protected]

East Northamptonshire District CouncilTel: 01832 742000Email: [email protected]

Kettering Borough CouncilTel: 01536 410333Email: [email protected]

Northampton Borough Council Tel: Customer Contact Centre – 01604 838281 Email: [email protected]

South Northamptonshire Council Tel: 01327 322322Email: [email protected]

Northamptonshire County Council Tel: 03001263000

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Buying Recycled - Promotional ItemsThese companies offer promotional items so that you could get recycled stationary and other items with your nurseries logo on it. There are other companies available so we would also encourage you to search online.

www.recycledbusinessgifts.co.uk/

www.remarkable.co.uk/

www.ecopromogifts.co.uk/steelcity/index.htm

www.yo-promotions.co.uk/ecofriendlyproducts.html

www.gogreenpromotions.co.uk/

www.ecoincentives.com/

www.recycledproductsonline.co.uk/

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Buying Recycled - None Promotional ItemsAgain there are other companies available so we would also encourage you to search online. Office StationaryIf you just want office equipment made from recycled materials without you logos on it then try the following websites.

www.remarkableoffice.co.uk/

www.greenstat.co.uk www.greenyouroffice.co.uk

Non-stationary Items

Company

Smile Plastics Ltd

Marmax Products Ltd

Evengreener

Greenglass Trading Ltd

Revolve UK by Cutouts

EcoCentric

Doy Bags

Wow-Wow

Products

Smile Plastics is committed to sourcing and developing

innovative ideas and markets for recycled materials, concentrating

on transforming plastics waste into multicoloured sheets.

Recycled plastic outdoor furniture and recycled plastic garden furniture

Over 200 environmental products designed to help you go greener.

Green Glass is all about making great looking, useful things from

recycled glass. We transform used beer and wine bottles into funky glasses. Broken glass is crushed or melted to produce gorgeous

beads for jewellery.

We recycle things to make environmentally responsible giftware

At EcoCentric we love beautiful low energy, sustainable, ethical

and recycled products that are as good for the home or as gifts as

they are for the environment

Doy Bags are colourful, fun bags and home accessories made from recycled juice packs by a women’s

cooperative in the Philippines.

We understand it’s not always possible to be completely green, but for any business or individual who wants to pioneer stylish Eco

solutions; we’re here to help!

Company

www.smile-plastics.co.uk

www.marmaxproducts.co.uk

www.evengreener.com

www.greenglass.co.uk

www.revolve-uk.com

www.ecocentric.co.uk

www.doybags.com

www.wow-wow.co.uk

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Useful WebsitesInformation and Education

Waste Awareness

www.incpen.org Pupils & Teachers - Relates to paper and packaging.www.letsrecycle.com Teachers - Waste information and latest waste news.www.ollierecycles.com Pupils (KS1 & 2) - A good child friendly site.www.recyclenow.com Pupils & teachers – Full of information and activities on recycling. Includes numerous teaching resources.www.recyclezone.org.uk Pupils & teachers – great games and interesting facts about recycling and reducing waste.www.remarkable.co.uk eachers - Products made from recycled waste.www.wakeuptowaste.org Teachers & Older Pupils - Good Research and ideas for schemes.www.wasteonline.org.uk Pupils & teachers - Good resources and information.www.wastewatch.org.uk Pupils & teachers - Range of information and Resources.www.brysoneducation.org Pupila & teachers - Range of information and resources.

Cans recycling

www.alupro.org.uk Pupils & teachers – Aluminium can recycling teaching resources, ideas and information featuring the cash for cans scheme.www.scrib.org Pupils & teachers - Steel can recycling related fun activities. Teachers pack available.

Glass recycling

www.britglass.org.uk Teachers & older pupils - Information / researchwww.glassforever.co.uk Teachers & pupils - Good games and information about how glass is made and why it should be recycled.

Composting

www.gardenorganic.org.uk/schools Teachers – Information and activities on how to compost.www.compost-it.org.uk/ Teachers - Information on how to compost waste.

Sustainability

www.eco-schools.org.uk Pupils & teachers – information on how to become an Eco-school.www.encams.org Pupils & Teachers - Teachers: general information. Pupils: Funzonewww.jointhepod.org Teachers, school staff and pupils - Information and activities, including lesson plans, on how to make your school a sustainable school. It also has some great educational games.

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Useful WebsitesAction and Activities

These are just a few suggestions. Again there are other companies available so we would also encourage you to search online.

Name

Bag2school

Biggest Beat

Freegle

Mail Preference Service

Quantum Theatre

Website

www.bag2school.com

www.biggestbeat.com

www.ilovefreegle.org/

www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/

www.quantumtheatre.co.uk/

What they offer

Bag2school is a unique opportunity to raise funds for your school, assist the environment and create

employment both at home and abroad.

Junk band that offer performances and workshops

A chance to get rid of unwanted items and pick up

items you need for free.

Mailing Preference Service supports your right to choose

the mail you want.

Offer Environmental plays.

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Useful BooksTitle

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

The Lorax

Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish

Where Does Rubbish Go?

Rubbish and Recycling

Why Should I Recycle?

Why Should I Save Energy?

Why Should I Save Water?

Creative Handmade Paper

101 Ways to Save the Earth

The Paper Bag Prince

Art of Recycling

Michael Recycle

The Adventures of a

Plastic Bottle

The Adventures of a can

Peppa pig: recycling Fun

What’s it worth, planet earth?

Litterbug Doug (A Michael Recycle Adventure)

George Saves the World By Lunchtime

Recycled Crafts Box

Recycling Officer (People Who Help Us)

Papermaking with Garden Plants and Common Weeds

When I’m at Work – Recycling operative

Worldwide Waste

A Worms Eye view the history of the world

Author

Nicky Scott

Dr Suess

Micheal Forman

Sophy Tahta

Stephanie Turnball

Mike Gordon

Mike Gordon

Mike Gordon

David Watson

David Bellamy

Colin Thompson

Hilary Ansell

Ellie Bethel

Alison Inches, Children’s Tk and Pete Whitehead

Alison Inches and Mark Chambers

N/A

Suzy Davies

Ellie Bethel

Dr Jo Readman and Ley Honor Roberts

Laura C Martin

Rebecca Hunter

Helen Hiebert

Susan Barraclough

Caren Trafford

Caren Trafford and Jade Oakley

Publisher

Green books

Collins

Puffin Books

Usborne Pocket Science

Usborne Beginners

Hodder Wayland

Hodder Wayland

Hodder Wayland

Search Press

Frances Lincoln

Red Fox

Belair

Meadowside Children’s Book

Little Green Books

Little Green Books

Lady Bird

Geography Song Sheet:

Meadowside Children’s Book

Eden Project Children’s Books

Storey Books

Cherrytree Books

Storey Books

Franklin Watts

Etram Pty Ltd

Etram Pty Ltd

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Thank YouThe Northamptonshire Waste Education team would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to the following people and groups of people who have helped in the creation of this pack. Without their support and suggestions we would not have been able to create this resource.

We would like to thank …

Croylands Children’s Centre and Nursery School for offering their advice and comments on the Nursery Pack as it was developed. In addition, we owe them a big thank you for arranging a ‘Stay and Play’ session in which we were able to test some of our activities.

The parents and guardians of the children at Croylands Children’s Centre and Nursery School who have allowed us to use images of their children in the nursery pack.

Jane Rowe from NiAS who met with us on several occasions to work through the Practise Guidance for the Early Years Foundation Stage document from DFES and to make sure that our work fitted with their learning and development areas.

The WEERM group for their numerous ideas and suggestions that have formed the bases for many of our activities.

All those who send in their suggestions to help develop the nursery pack over time.

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Evaluations and CommentsWe would value your comments on the nursery pack as it is a piece of work that we will continue to develop in order to keep it up to date and relevant. We are keen to know about which parts you think work well and which parts could be improved and how. In additional, if you had any suggestion or ideas that you would like us to include in the pack then please let us know and we will try to include these in future publications. If you have any of your own activities that you think work well and are happy for us to use them in future packs we would also be grateful for these and will provide you with full credit in future publications.

If you would like to pass on your comments please feel free to email us directly on the contact details below or make a copy of the evaluation form overleaf and post it to us at this address.

The Northamptonshire Waste Education TeamNorthamptonshire County Council2nd Floor Guildhall Road BlockCounty HallNorthamptonNN1 1DN

To email us your comments please title your email ‘Nursery Pack Evaluation’ and send your comments to [email protected]

We look forward to receiving your comments and hope that you have found the pack useful.Many thanks from all in the Northamptonshire Waste Education Team

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Evaluation form

Date: Name:

Organisation name:

Please answer the following questions by ticking the appropriate number: 5 excellent, 4 good, 3 average, 2 poor, 1 very poor

Please add any additional comments in the space provided

3. Do the activities encourage learning for your pupils?

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4. Are the activities linked to the six areas of learning and development effectively enough?

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5. Are the interactive display ideas suitable to create and use with your setting?

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6. Do your pupils engage with the home corner ideas?

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