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What a load of rubbish!

Help to reduce waste ...

You may have seen a blue box for paper, cans and foil and a wheelie bin for garden rubbish and cardboard at your house, or maybe you have taken your glass, paper, cans and plastic bottles to a recycling bank, but do you know why? And what can you do to help the environment?

We all make rubbish everyday and the amount of rubbish that we are producing is increasing all the time. Every one and a half hours in the UK we are producing enough rubbish to fill your local swimming pool! In Wealden each year we produce over 50,000 tonnes of rubbish. That’s enough to completely fill a football pitch piled over 10 metres high!

We need your help!

It's up to you to look after your environment for the future and being aware of rubbish and recycling is a very important part of that.

What can you do to help?

How you can easily help everyday & play your part.

Recycle

All about recycling


What next ...

Have a look at the websites listed below, they contain lots more information about rubbish and recycling as well as games, quizzes and ideas for you to try at home and at school!

www.recyclezone.org.uk– Recycle Zone
A great site with games, information and resources.

www.recycle-more.co.uk - Recycle More
Contains a handy 'Recycling Bank Locator' which will locate your nearest recycling banks for a wide range of materials. All you need to do is put in your postcode. There are also games and information, including a guide to the different symbols that can be found on packaging.

www.recycledproducts.org.uk - UK Recycled Products Guide
An online guide to products made from recycled materials. The database catalogues over 900 items made from recycled materials, including stationary and furniture of use to schools.

www.reuze.co.uk - The website that brings you the how, what and where of recycling in the United Kingdom.

www.compost.org.uk -The Composting Association
Website Promoting Composting and Compost.

www.recyclingglass.co.uk - Loads of information, games and quizzes about glass recycling

www.cashforcans.co.uk Cash for Cans
All you need to know about aluminium recycling, including how to use this to raise money for your school. Take an interactive tour around Europe's largest aluminium can recycling plant from where you can download video clips of the process in action. Also on the site are games, downloadable desktops and screensavers, and printable posters and information packs. More information on recycling aluminium can be found at www.alupro.org.uk

www.environment-agency.gov.uk and www.environment-agency.gov.uk/fun
The kids' section of this site contains games, films and animations on the themes of waste, plastics and the 3Rs. Put the postcode of your home or school into 'What's in your Backyard?' to locate information about landfill sites, pollution, and other environmental features in your local area. Also gives useful background information on a whole range of waste related topics.

www.wastewatch.org.uk - Waste Watch
Lots of games, quizzes and information.

www.encams.org/campaigns - Tidy Britain Group
Includes information about litter waste amongst other things.

www.wrap.org.uk - the Waste & Resources Action Programme Promoting sustainable waste management.

www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/waste - Friends of the Earth
A large variety of information about waste and the organisation’s campaigns.

www.wasteonline.org.uk - Waste Online
A great source of information on every aspect of waste. Downloadable information sheets are available on composting, glass, paper and plastics.

www.recyclingglass.co.uk - British Glass
Find out about the history of glass and how and where it is made. There are also glass related games and a quiz.

www.glassforever.co.uk - Glass Forever
An excellent site all about glass and how it can be recycled. Lots of games and an animation showing how old glass is made into new bottles