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Content guidelines
"The 3R's in My School – Reduce, Re-use & Recycle"
Reduce
This means to live more carefully so that you create less rubbish. For example, does your school:
Shop for school supplies carefully by:
- Avoiding goods that have excessive packaging
- Choosing products that come in concentrated form (eg. kitchen detergent) or that have refills (eg. certain ballpoint pens and some laundry
detergents have refills).
- Buying packaged goods that are either made from recycled materials or that can be refilled, reused or recycled.
- Buying products made from recycled materials (eg. paper, compost bins, etc.).
- Not buying too many disposable products.
- Buying products that are durable and will last a long time.
- Buying products that will not go out of fashion quickly.
- Composting lunch scraps and other organic material.
- Repair different objects and appliances rather than replacing them with new ones?
- Hire, share and borrow things rather than buying new ones where possible?
Re-use
This means to use things again instead of throwing them away. This saves energy and resources that would have been used to make a new product.
Re-using also means that the product doesn't go in the bin and end up in landfill. For example, does your school;
- Have a uniform or book swap shop to encourage re-use within the school?
- Reuse empty glass jars, plastic bottles, cardboard boxes, newspaper and other bits and pieces in the classroom, art room or tuck shop for other
purposes?
- Open old envelopes carefully so that they can be reused?
- Save your old margarine, icecream containers and egg cartons to use in classroom activities?
Recycle
This means that a waste product is returned to a factory where it is remade into either the same product or something different. For example, used
aluminium cans can be recycled back into new drink cans. Recycling saves landfill space and also saves the resources that were used to make the product in the first place. In some cases, recycling can also save
energy. For example, does your school;
- Recycle different materials like;
- Paper and cardboard
- All glass bottles and jars
- Aluminium cans and foil
- PET plastic soft drink bottles and fruit juice bottles (Code 1).
- Recycle other items like;
- plastic supermarket bags (from some supermarkets)
- laser printer cartridges and ribbons
- wine bottle corks
- building materials (timber, concrete, and bricks)
For further details about these materials contact your local Council
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