Encourage your child, no matter how young, to be actively involved in the household recycling.Make sure that the recycling bins are easily accessible at your child’s height from an early age. You can turn recycling into a fun game by giving them different objects and asking them to decide where it goes. As children get older, it is an easy designated household job.Having different bins for plastics, glass, paper, general waste and food compost, will allow your child to deposit the waste in the correct bin.Teaching your child the importance of recycling now, should help them to grow with an environmental conscience. If you are unsure if an item is recyclable or not, refer to our How To Recycle Guides.Make sure that the recycling bins are easily accessible at your child’s height from an early age.
Recycling conserves raw materials for future generations. Paper and card can be recycled 8 times before the fibres break down too much and you are actively reducing the number of forests cut down for new products. Metals are recyclable countless times, as can glass. Recycling usually uses less energy than starting from scratch and it means a new resource isn't being taken, when one is reused.
Instead of throwing stuff straight into the recycling bin, think about how else it can be used. If you have some big cardboard boxes, these can easily be turned into a toy house. Toilet rolls have endless uses as seedling starters, storage containers and puppets. Glass jars can be used to house pretty much anything that will fit inside them. And you can always reuse the flip side of paper you have printed or written on.