At salvage warehouse, we believe that education is key to developing more environmentally friendly recycling practices. Following this belief, we organised a recycling day at a local primary school. Our goal was to teach the children what happens to rubbish once it’s thrown away and what happens to it when it is recycled, through some fun and interactive presentations and activities. The overall aim was to show everyone what they can do to stop waste from going to landfill.
Here we have one of our speakers explaining the recycling process to a year 5 class
 
We helped some year 6 students make a “recycling station”
After a successful day the students and teachers thanked us for what we had taught them and said they had a very fun day. We hope to organise more of these events in future and not just at schools. We want to work with local councils and clubs to promote our principles of reusing and recycling.
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May 22, 2013 at 2:58 am
Hi, how do you plan on expanding your educational programs in the future? Do you plan on teaching target groups about areas outside of waste management? Also how do you think this will impact the communities you work with?
May 26, 2013 at 3:32 pm
Thank you for your comment! We plan on expanding through word of mouth as well as through advertising. Once we have built a strong community presence we hope to run large scale group events on weekends for families to enjoy as well as learn. In terms of teaching groups areas outside of waste management, we think its better to start with how they can manage their own waste before expanding to other areas so we are unsure of that at this point in time. Our hope is that our events will engage different communities in widespread recycling efforts which will all work together to improve the environment.
May 23, 2013 at 5:29 am
What kind of fun and engaging learning techniques did you use to educate the children?
Do you think designing a iPhone application game involving recycling would be a good idea for young students as children are very tech savvy in the modern age?
May 26, 2013 at 3:39 pm
Good question Jordan! We started by explaining composting and helping the kids set up their own compost bin at school. They were very interested to learn how it all breaks down. We also set up groups and rotated the kids around so they could each get a turn at the different activities which included; playing some educational games, making recycling stations, and a recycling challenge where the kids raced in teams to sort some recyclable materials and fill up some bins (all clean of course) with prizes awarded to the best teams. As for your idea for an iPhone application, while it has its merits, we are unsure of the figures for primary schoolers with smart phones and the costs for designing and marketing this game might outweigh the benefits. Good idea though!