15 Ways to Celebrate America Recycles Day - November 15, 2007

1. Make Recycled Paper (follow the link or borrow the RSP Paper Making Loan Kit)

2. Conduct a Waste Audit (pdf)

3. Make an Edible Landfill

4. Hold a Waste Free Lunch Day

5. Plan a Reduce Reuse Recycle Assembly

6. Solve a Recycling Crossword Puzzle (pdf)

7. Decorate Grocery Bags for Students to Take Home and Fill with Paper for the Abitibi Paper Retriever Bin

8. Sing “I’ve Been Working on Recycling”

9. Figure Out “Your Slice of the Landfill Pie”

10. Conduct a Survey on Your School’s Recycling Habits

11. Write Letters Home to Encourage Parents to Recycle More at School

12. Have a Poetry Contest With a 3R Theme

13. Make Mr. Bones (a skeleton out of milk jugs)

14. Schedule a RSP Classroom Presentation

15. Pledge to Recycle More at americarecyclesday.org

Visit the Missouri Recycling Association website for many, many more ideas, lesson plans and art projects:
www.mora.org/docs/education/Educational_Links.pdf

 

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