The compost from the worm farm can then be used in the school gardens or assist in creating a class veggie patch. With the permission of your principal, use the food scraps from your class fruit break, or recess, to set up a class worm farm. Set up incentives by creating class recycling goals and assign students to be the weekly recycling monitor. Provide three clearly labelled bins for recycling, compost and rubbish and encourage students to put their waste into the correct bins. Use the Garbage Bin Postersand Protect our Environment Posterto set up a recycling center in your classroom. There are a number of ways that you could reduce, reuse and recycle in your classroom.
By reusing everyday products we can help to reduce waste, save money, decrease our carbon footprint and become more sustainable. “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.”Įveryday at school, and at home, we end up throwing away many items that could be easily recycled and put to great use in our classrooms.
