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Waste Watch’s education newsletter summer 2004
issue 5
contents
2 waste education
news from around
the UK
4 rethink rubbish
western riverside
5 paper recycling
pull out resource
10 WESPlife
11 project details
12 diary
paper and card
pulp facts not pulp fiction
www.wastewatch.org.uk
wasteline 0870 243 0136

wasted is published by Waste
Watch, a leading environmental
organisation promoting sustainable
resource use in the UK by
campaigning for all areas of
society to reduce resource
consumption, maximise resource
reuse, and increase the
percentage of waste recycled.
editorial
Welcome to the summer
edition of Wasted!
Paper is one of the most
familiar materials in
everyday use – newspapers,
paper bags, envelopes,
tissue paper and of course
wasted itself are all made
from those marvellously
useful cellulose fibres that
make up the material. In
fact, it’s so common that it’s
easy to forget the good
environmental reasons
for recycling paper. That’s
why we’ve dedicated this
issue to paper – inside we’ll
help sort out the pulp facts
from the pulp fiction as well
as providing a ream of
teachers’ resources for
the classroom.
Our cover image is of a Rucksack
sculpture made by the artist Jac Scott
from redundant cardboard and
packaging. The photo was taken by
Vince Bevan. The sculpture and photo
form part of the Personal Baggage
project. www.copeland.gov.uk/copeland/
ms/www/personalbaggage/
editor
Richard Newson
Tel 020 7089 2131
editorial team
Waste Watch education staff
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post consumer recycled paper.
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necessarily those of Waste Watch.
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newsupdate
Tenth birthday sees changes to
The education department of Waste Watch is celebrating a
decade of innovative work in schools. Waste Watch started
work in schools in 1994 when large scale recycling was in
its infancy; since then a diverse string of education
projects have helped the charity make the younger
generation aware of the need for sustainable resource use.
Cornerstones of Waste Watch education work, such as
the Cycler programme and the Schools Waste Action Clubs,
have had significant impact. The Cycler robots have
captivated children in over 4000 schools, while SWAC has
helped over 800 school to reduce their waste by up to
90%. Alongside this work the education team have
produced classroom resources like the Dustbin Pack and
Wise Up To Waste, provided training seminars for teachers,
and most recently developed www.recylezone.org.uk .
The tenth anniversary comes as several SWAC projects
change management. Since April this year management of
SWACs in Essex, Bexley, Norfolk and Lincolnshire has
transferred to the local authorities, which provides the
projects with longer term stability. Waste Watch continues
Green by name,
green by nature
Slade Green Junior School in Bexley have set a new
record for waste reduction with SWAC. The school has
managed to cut its rubbish by over 90%, the highest
reduction ever achieved in a Bexley school!
Every class is using a recycling bin for paper and card,
and Bexley Council have even given the school brown bins
for all of their food waste – this means that hardly anything
is sent to landfill, it is turned into compost instead!
The only waste found during the repeat waste audit was
non-recyclable plastic such as crisp packets and chocolate
bar wrappers and both staff and pupils are trying really
hard to further reduce this lunch waste.
The whole school have been working at reducing,
reusing and recycling; there are even monitors who take it
in turns at lunchtime to give advice to younger children
about what can be recycled.
SWAC
to provide support to these projects, while developing new
projects which will address school catering waste issues,
work with university students to reduce waste, develop
teacher training programmes and a network of waste
educators.
The shift was made necessary by changes to the
Landfill Tax Credit Scheme, which has resulted in a loss of
funding for education for sustainable development (ESD).
While Waste Watch welcomes the production of a
“Sustainable development action plan for Education and
Skills” produced by the DfES in October 2003, the ability of
many organisations within the sector to assist in its
delivery is threatened due to this loss of funding. We are
working with other NGO’s to urge the DfES to take full consideration
of the impact that the reform of LTCS has had
on education.
Pupils from Slade Green Junior School
celebrate their waste reduction
“This project has shown that children today want to
care for their environment” said Head teacher Rob
Edwards, “They only need to be given the opportunity.”
Pupils were presented with a special certificate to
mark their achievement as well as recycled prizes.

Birthday bot
The new Cycler robots celebrated their first birthday in April. However, there wasn’t time for parties,
presents and birthday cakes, as the team of three robots were hard at work completing their school visits
before the Easter holidays. The new state-of-the-art Cycler robots were built by the Technology Innovation
Centre at the University of Central England, and replaced three older droids that had been tirelessly taking
the 3Rs message to schools across the UK since 1995. During this time the Cycler programme has had an
enormous impact and visited over 750,000 children. The robotic rapper is expected to notch up visits to 1
million children in 2005.
Sing-a-long-a-Cycler
Fans of Cycler should visit the new Waste Watch website www.recyclezone.org.uk . A special Cycler ‘zone’
features an online karaoke machine where visitors can sing along with one of Cycler’s recycling raps. There
is also a chance to see artwork and letters from children, inspired by the robot’s waste reduction message.
New town, new product
Cycler tries on a hardhat made from recycled plastic
While giving presentations in Milton Keynes, the Cycler team has been inspired by a display of recycled products
at the local materials recycling facility. The display, on show inside the facility’s own education centre,
includes beads made from recycled plastic in Ghana, key rings fashioned from old circuit boards, and a brief
case made from reprocessed food cartons. If you want to know more about the amazing products that are
being made from recycled materials then visit www.rethinkrubbish.com . The website features a fascinating
range of goods and a host of other information on reducing waste.
SWAC school gets healthy
A SWAC North Yorkshire school is celebrating winning an award for being
healthy. Bullamoor Junior School in Northallerton joined SWAC in 2001, and
has made real progress in reducing the school’s waste. The school’s efforts
were recently singled out when it won a Healthy School Award.
“Everyone at Bullamoor School has had some input in highlighting issues for
the Healthy School Award” commented Mrs Byrne, the school’s deputy
head teacher, “SWAC was an excellent help in tackling our waste problems.”
A waste audit at the school in January, showed a substantial waste
reduction of over 40%.
Any school in York and North Yorkshire wanting a repeat waste audit
should contact the SWAC office on 01609 761818.
Burning questions
Sixth form students from the Trinity School, Nottingham had an excellent opportunity to
make up their own minds about a hot issue in waste management, incineration. The students,
all studying AS Level Product Design, got the chance to visit the Nottingham City
incinerator on a trip organised by SWAC Notts and the Waste Recycling Group PLC. The
purpose of the trip was to raise awareness of the methods of waste management and to
explore the energy from waste option.
“The trip has been a really good opportunity for our students to see the process for
themselves and to develop their understanding of waste management” commented
Mr. Mountfield, a Trinity School teacher. “The trip will definitely help them with their
case studies.”
Some of the students are also part of the school's Environment Committee, and were
involved in carrying out a Waste Audit, the data from which is now being used to develop
an Action Plan for the school.
Students from the Trinity School, Nottingham visit their local incinerator
Thurrock schools
get SWAC happy!
SWAC Essex has been sharing its waste reduction know-how
as part of a local initiative. Thurrock Borough Council held a
Schools Waste Awareness Month in March and SWAC Essex
supported the event by providing several schools with a programme
of educational activities including assemblies, whole
school waste audits and pupil led action planning sessions. The
SWAC Essex papermaking classes were particularly popular,
and many mothers in Thurrock will have received handmade
recycled cards on Mothering Sunday!
Schools in Thurrock will continue to benefit from the support
of John Ronan, Assistant Sustainable Development Officer,
and the waste and recycling team at Thurrock Borough Council
to achieve their recycling and composting targets. The schools
will also continue to receive support from SWAC to achieve
their waste reuse and reduction goals set out in their action
plans and should soon begin to see real reductions in waste.
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Who’s bin drawing?
Students from Godolphin and Latymer School,
Hammersmith, have been running an innovative
competition to raise funds for environmental projects
in their school. In the Who’s bin drawing? competition,
staff drew their own special bin and students
paid 20p to guess which teacher had drawn
it. The winners got music CDs and recycled stationery.
Students also designed their own mini bin
and the most artistic won prizes.
The school has shown great determination in
improving its environmental impact since joining
the Rethink Rubbish at School Scheme. Not only
have they implemented a school wide paper recycling
scheme but they have also started recycling
plastic vending cups, which are then recycled into
pencils and rulers. Not content with this, they have
also started selling recycled stationery in their
school tuck shop to raise money for school environmental
projects. Their scheme was considered
so innovative that it was featured recently in BBC
TV’s The Earth Report.
Pupils from St Thomas More School in their cardboard haute couteur
Children take cardboard to catwalk
Children from St Thomas More School, Chelsea, took to the catwalk wearing colourful
costumes made from reclaimed waste cardboard. The school, which recently joined
the Rethink Rubbish at School programme, was performing a fashion show as part of
its annual Body Sculpture event.
Campaign Education Officer, Dan Beenham said: “The school’s work is a great example
of using high-quality art to promote an environmental message. They’re not just
talking about recycling, they are actually taking action to reduce, reuse and recycle as
much of the schools rubbish as possible.”
The school has been running the fashion show based on different themes for over 10
years. Each year students make costumes using waste cardboard from local shops that
would otherwise have been destined for the dustbin. Afternoon fashion shows were
held for the whole school with an evening show performed for parents and families.
Pupils from Alderbrook Primary School with the Volkswagen Beetle compost bin
Giant beetle drives
compost message home
Pupils from Alderbrook Primary School,
Balham, met an unusual composter whilst
visiting Vauxhall City Farm. As well as learning
a great deal about the different animals and
their lifecycles, they also saw the unorthodox
way the farm looks after its organic waste.
Waste straw, manure, fruit & vegetable
peelings and animal bedding is left to rot down
inside an old Volkswagen Beetle, decorated
with images of animals from the farm. The
farm also feeds fruit and vegetable waste to its
wormery, ensuring nothing goes to waste.
The school visited the farm as part of its
Science Week, which had recycling as its main
theme. During the week the school also built a
weather vane made from recycled materials,
had paper making sessions and were
introduced to the Waste Watch wormery.
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TEACHERS’ RESOURCE
instant expert
A whirlwind tour of issues
relating to paper
The
figures
The UK used 12.5 million
tones of paper and cardboard
in 2002.
Paper can be recycled 5
times before the wood fibres
become too weak and need
to be replaced.
Including paper, cardboard,
newspapers, magazines, telephone
directories and packaging,
each family in the UK
uses the equivalent of six
trees per year.
The
issues
Recycling paper means we don’t have
the problems of disposal associated
with burying our rubbish in landfill
sites, or incinerating it.
Recycled paper uses 30 to 70% less
energy than making new paper, and far
less water too.
The politics
Paper, along with garden and kitchen waste is covered by targets
in The Waste Strategy 2000, which aims for a 25 % reduction
in biodegradable waste going to landfill by 2005.
If we can’t bury this paper anymore, we must either recycle it
or burn it in incinerators.
A report from CSERGE (Centre for Social and Economic
Research on the Global Environment) investigated whether it is
better to recycle or incinerate waste paper. “The UK's national
income rises by around £154 for every additional tonne of
paper recycled; recycling creates three times the number of
jobs that incineration would; recycling offers savings for local
authorities; and recycling paper saves more energy than is
generated through its incineration.”
The solutions
Reduce the amount of paper used in school especially
in ICT classes by printing on both sides.
30% of all household rubbish
is paper.
The UK recovers about 50%
of all the paper used each
year. UK papers mills use a
lot of recycled material in the
paper they manufacture –
about 66% - compared to
only 48% in European mills.
Trees for paper making are often
grown and harvested as a long term
crop with new trees planted to replace
those cut down. This is often referred
to as “sustainable forestry”. One drawback
is that these managed plantations
do not provide the wildlife habitats
of naturally occurring forests.
Timber and occasionally paper products
made using wood from sustainable
forests often bear the Forest
Stewardship Council (FSC) logo.
This guarantees that the wood does
not originate from irresponsibly
cleared, virgin forests in places
such as the Amazon.
Reuse paper in school by creating scrap boxes where
partially used paper can be used again for “rough” work,
in Art, D&T and other classes. Shredded paper can be sold
to mail order companies as a packaging material and in
certain circumstances, as animal bedding (but be careful
of poisonous inks or dyes).
Recycle paper at home and school. Many households now
have a kerbside collection service for waste paper such
as newspapers and magazines. If not then take your waste
paper to a local paper bank.
Close the loop and buy recycled paper products at home
and school. Most paper suppliers carry a range of high
quality recycled paper for printers and photocopying.
Visit www.recycledproducts.org.uk to find out more
about recycled paper products.
Take action
Lobby your school to buy recycled paper. Write a letter to your headmaster asking if your school has a green purchasing
policy. Point out all the good environmental reasons for buying green products and ask for changes to be made.
Get the letter signed by as many staff and pupils as possible.
© Waste Watch 2004
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TEACHERS’ RESOURCE
primary years
How we make paper
People have been making paper for nearly 2000 years, and the method
is very easy to learn. Here we show you how to make your own recycled
paper, and compare the six easy steps with what goes on in a modern,
industrial size, paper mill. For a full description of how to make paper in class
visit www.recyclezone.org.uk/az_makepaper.aspx
You will need
• Waste paper, water, blender,
deep tray or bowl, 2 identical
wooden frames – one
covered in mesh, a sponge,
absorbent cloths, old
newspaper.
In the classroom
5
Carefully take off the frame.
And flip the sheet of wet paper
over onto some dry newspaper.
Peel off the cloth and leave
to dry.
In the paper mill
A huge reel of the paper
used to make newspapers.
An industrial size paper
making machine.
6
When your recycled paper
is dry use it as writing paper,
or to make a greeting card.
1
Collect old sheets of paper
and shred them up into tiny
pieces.
4
Remove the top frame, and
flip over the pulp covered mesh
onto a cloth. Extract water
from the sheet of pulp
through the mesh by pressing
gently with the sponge
Pictures courtesy of Aylesford Newsprint
2
Add water to a handful of
shredded paper and blend
or mash into a pulp. You can
add a little paint to the pulp
to give your paper a different
colour.
3
Pour the pulp into the tray
and add more water. The water
should become quite inky. Hold
the frames together, with the
mesh frame underneath, and
the mesh in the middle.
Collect some pulp out of
the water.
5
The paper is passed
through steam heated drying
cylinders to remove moisture
and roll the paper into an
even thickness, before being
stored on huge reels.
6
The reels of paper are
delivered to major publishers
where they are used in printing
presses to produce newspapers
and magazines.
1
Paper is collected,
then shovelled onto conveyors
which feed the giant pulpers in
the fibre preperation plant.
4
Paper on its way
to be pulped.
Clean pulp is injected
between two wire meshes
to form a damp sheet
of paper.
2
Water and chemicals
are added inside the
pulpers, helping to release
ink from the paper fibres.
3
Most of the ink is removed
by flotation which uses a fatty
acid to create a bubbly scum
to which the ink attaches
itself. The clean pulp is then
ready for paper-making.
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TEACHERS’ RESOURCE
secondary years
Buy recycled campaign
In groups, pupils should try to influence their school or Local Education Authority to buy
recycled products. As research has shown that 47% of a school’s waste is paper, the
instructions are based on a campaign to buy recycled paper. This activity can be used
for Citizenship classes to develop enquiry, presentation skills and group interaction. It
will help pupils understand how school decisions are made and how they can influence
policy. The campaign can also help with ICT skills, literacy and numeracy.
Use group power to make a difference
Campaign stage one - research
You will need to find out certain information if you are going to persuade the school to
buy recycled paper. It is likely that there will be a number of people involved in the decision
making process and they will consider financial, environmental and other factors.
Here are some questions you may need to answer:
• Who is responsible for purchasing paper at school and what is the decision
based on? How much does it cost? Who supplies the paper?
How often is new paper ordered?
• What types of paper does your school use? E.g. printing, photocopying,
art, paper towels and exercise books?
• How much paper does your school use?
• Is there a recycled alternative?
• Does your school buy any recycled paper products?
• Does your school buy Forestry Stewardship Council endorsed products?
• Is there a cost difference between the current paper order and the cost of
switching to recycled paper? Would a “step change” help your case?
Pulp facts and pulp fiction
Campaign stage two - presentation
Using the information you have gathered design a presentation stating your case
for the switch to recycled paper.
You can produce this as a drama or as a formal business presentation using
overheads or a Power Point presentation.
Invite the people who purchase your school’s paper to attend the presentation.
Ask when they will make a decision and how you will be notified.
Remember, this is a complicated decision process, one of many that have to
be made to run a school. It will help if you can identify any cost savings made by
off-setting any additional costs with money gained through recycling. It may also be
easier for the school to make the switch in stages (step change) perhaps by replacing
one type of paper at a time. Remember to mention that a decision to buy recycled
paper may give the school some good publicity.
Campaign stage three - publicity
Once you have persuaded the school to switch to recycled paper you need to let
the rest of the school and community know.
Hold assemblies to inform the rest of the school and invite local councillors
and media along. Write a press release and take photos, and then send these to local
newspapers.
Remember that recycling is just one of the solutions to our waste problems.
Publicise how waste can be reduced and reused making even greater savings
to the environment!
What types of paper do you use at school?
Some people talk a lot of rubbish about paper
recycling; here we sort out the truth from the trash.
It requires more energy to make recycled paper
than new paper
Trash! If we look at the papermaking process alone,
then it does normally take more energy to make
paper from waste paper than from pulp because of
the extra cleaning involved. But pulp does not grow
on trees! If we include all the other energy requirements
involved in turning wood chips into pulp, the
making of recycled paper does save energy.
Making recycled paper requires a lot of bleaching
Trash! Most recycled papers require little if any
bleaching. If a mill has no de-inking or cleaning
equipment, it can only accept unprinted or lightly
printed (e.g. computer) waste paper. At other mills
printed waste is cleaned either by dispersal where
the ink is diluted and dispersed in the pulp. Or by
de-inking – where a detergent (usually phosphate
free) is used to dissolve the ink. Then air bubbles are
injected into the pulp. The ink sticks to the bubbles
and rises to the surface where it is skimmed off.
Where bleaching is used, mostly chlorine-free
agents are used.
Recycled Papers are always of poor quality
Trash! The quality of recycled paper has benefited
from great improvements in papermaking technology
over the last three decades. Quality control is
almost invariably computerised and subject to the
strictest testing and checking. Many recycled papers
are now indistinguishable from virgin equivalents.
Recycled Papers are always more expensive
Trash! There is now a wider choice of recycled
papers available, many of which are competitively
priced.
Source: Paperback
© Waste Watch 2004
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TEACHERS’ RESOURCE world view
Focus on the United Kingdom
North
Atlantic
Ocean
Gulf
of
Bothnia
North
Sea
Baltic
Sea
English Channel
Location Northern Europe
Population 60,000,000
Capital London
Paper first came to England in 1488. Today, the UK is the fifth largest user
of paper in the world – we need at least 6.4 million hectares of forest
which is an area 9 times the size of Ireland, to supply our annual demand
for timber products… But where does it come from ? How is it made?
What happens to it when we’ve finished with it?!
Contents of paper made in the UK
66% recycled paper
27% imported wood pulp
7% UK grown wood pulp
What our paper is made of
The raw material of paper making is wood pulp. The best trees for the
production of wood pulp are softwoods such as spruce and fir which
grow in the northern coniferous forests of North America, Scandinavia
and Russia: 94% of new wood used by the UK paper and board industry
comes from European, sustainably managed forests. The other 6%
comes mainly from North America. Because the UK only has 11% of land
devoted to forestry, compared with 25 – 80% in other European countries,
waste paper is also a really important raw material for the British
paper and board industry. In 2002, waste paper represented 66% of the
fibre used in papermaking. So, in the UK, 66% of fibres used in paper
making come from waste paper, 27% comes from imported wood pulp
and 7% comes from home-grown wood pulp.
Paper manufacture
The UK manufactures 6.2 million tonnes of paper a year. Some manufacturers
use virgin pulp but two thirds of the 24 UK paper mills use
recovered paper and many use nothing else.
Paper products
Some of the paper is exported overseas, the rest is distributed as newspapers,
packaging, stationery, tissues and other paper products across
the country.
Recycled paper
Recycled paper is paper produced from fibres that have been through a
paper mill at least twice. These fibres come from post-consumer waste
paper (used paper from packaging, newsprint, tisses) or pre-consumer
waste paper (unused paper from off cuts, unprinted paper or damaged
paper from mills).
Almost any household waste paper can be recycled, including used newspapers,
cardboard, packaging, stationery, magazines, catalogues, greeting
cards and wrapping paper. Waste paper is collected from household recycling
sites, kerbside collections, or at designated sites for special collections.
Before paper can be recycled, it needs to be sorted, graded and
baled prior to its transportation to the mill. There are over 60 recognised
grades of waste paper in Europe and the paper grade determines what
it can be used for. For example, long fibre, higher quality grades like
office waste can make graphic paper, tissues and newsprint, but lower
grades which includes mixed waste papers are used to make the middle
layers of packaging papers and boards.
Paper cannot be recycled indefinitely because every time fibres are
recycled they lose strength and after being reused about 5 or 6 times,
the fibres become too short and are not strong enough for papermaking.
End use
Unfortunately, many people simply do not recycle their paper and it is
disposed of as rubbish. Approximately 5 million tonnes of paper is buried
landfill sites in the UK each year.
Source: Woodland Trust, Lets Recycle & Confederation of Paper Industries website
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TEACHERS’ useful RESOURCE resources
All the information you need is out there on the
internet – somewhere! We tell you where to look.
Waste Online
This informative website
provides information on all
waste issues, including paper.
Look at the Waste Online
information sheets first –
as you may well find everything
you need to know on these
excellently researched
summaries.
www.wasteonline.org.uk
Paperback
This company supplies many
different types of recycled
paper – students taking part
in the Buy Recycled Campaign
might want to use Paperback
to find out the cost of recycled
paper products. There is also
a comprehensive guide to
the facts and fiction of
recycled paper.
www.paperback.coop
Aylesford Newsprint
Aylesford produce 100%
recycled paper for newsprint
and they use over 500,000
tonnes of waste paper each
year. This website has a great
section that shows in detail
how recycled paper in an
industrial scale paper mill.
www.aylesford-newsprint.co.uk
information predominantly for
the recycling industry and
there’s a good list of paper
mills, paper grades and paper
prices. This is also a good
place to find statistics for
paper recycling in the UK.
www.letsrecycle.com
Yellow Woods Challenge
The Yellow Woods Challenge
is a schools environmental
campaign run by Yellow
Pages, the Directory Recycling
Scheme and the Wildlife Trust.
It aims to recycle old Yellow
Pages directories and educate
children about environmental
issues. Schools can win cash
prizes for their innovative
recycling projects and for
recycling the most directories.
For more details on how you
can participate visit the Yellow
Woods Challenge website.
www.yellow-woods.co.uk
Confederation of
paper industries
These people are the eyes,
ears and voice of the UK paper
industry. This website has an
excellent section for children
called Kids Korna with games,
quizzes and information. The
website also includes several
informative pages of facts and
figures. Well worth a visit!
www.paper.org.uk
Recycled products guide
If you’re interested in products
made from recycled paper then
this site provides the
information you need. In the
online database are 100’s of
UK companies that are
manufacturing new products
from recycled pulp.
www.recycledproducts.org.uk
Mail preference service
Direct mail sent from companies
trying to promote their products
often makes up a large percentage
of the paper that we recycle.
If you want to receive less direct
mail then register with the Mail
Preference Service. They will
make sure that your name and
address are taken off mailing
lists and you should receive
considerably less junk mail.
www.mpsonline.org.uk
It’s out there on the internet – paper sculpture
We all know that paper can be recycled but what about reusing paper.
For a start a sheet of photocopy or printer paper can be reused by
printing on both sides, but what then? Well, if you want some amazing
ideas for giving sheets of paper a new lease of life then visit the
websites listed below. Both use paper folding techniques to make
amazing models.
The first website will show you how to make some stunning paper
aeroplanes and even paper bats and birds that really fly. The second
website provides a perfect introduction to the Japanese art of paper
folding called Origami. Origami has been around for many hundreds of
years and some of the 3-dimensional models that can be made from
a simple sheet of paper will have you reaching into your recycling bin
for raw materials. Join the fold, but remember to recycle your models
when you no longer want them!
www.origami.as/home.html
www.amazingpaperairplanes.com/FoldingRobin.html
Let’s Recycle
When it comes to recycling
this website means business –
literally! Let’s Recycle supplies
© Waste Watch 2004
It’s a paper plane, but not as we know it!
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WESPlife
The Waste Education
Support Programme
(WESP) was set up
in response to the
growing number of
requests that Waste
Watch was receiving
for help running
waste education
projects.
As a result, WESP
was designed to
provide organisations
with an ‘off the shelf’
set of waste
education training &
resources to use in
schools in their area.
The Waste Education Support Programme (WESP) has started over again! At the end of March, the new
WESP intake of 11 new organisations started their training. The first three day event covered assemblies,
waste audits, action planning and a host of other tips on how to run a successful waste education
programme in schools. As a result of the new intake the WESP activities are now being rolled out
through the following organisations:
WESP Intake 1 WESP Intake 2
Barnsley MBC Paula Davie 01226 772 214
Buckinghamshire CC Claire Baldry 01296 387 195l
Chiltern DCl Rebecca Newbutt 01494 732 281
Devon CC Lindsay Coyle 01392 382 920
Doncaster Community Abby Wilson 01302 849 068
Recycling Partnership
Doncaster MBC Maggie Count 01302 735 175
Gateshead Council Heather Tarvit 0191 433 7418
Gloucestershire Bex Davis 01452 426 601
Lancashire Wildlife Trust Andy France 01772 752 930
LB of Brent Marlene Taylor 020 8937 5292
LB of Bromley Amy Bevins 020 8313 4989
LB of Enfield Nick Martin 020 8379 2214
LB of Lewisham Beth Sowden 020 8314 2053
Shropshire CC Sue Jelleyman 01743 253 064
South Molton DC Cathy Karniewicz 01271 345 806
Telford & Wrekin Council Sue Levers 01952 202 951
Westminster CC Gerry O’Connell 020 7641 7956
Wycombe DC Vicki Pattison 01494 421 440
Used newspapers are not waste,
they are an essential raw material.
If newspapers were not recycled,
they would end up in landfills -
and that would be a waste!
Aberdeenshire Council Andy Devine 01467 628 681
Biffa Waste Services Liz Fenlon 01494 521 221
East Renfrewshire Council Erica Kemmet 0141 577 3032
Hartlepool BC Clare Belcher 01429 523 829
Isle of Man Government Stephanie Gray 01624 686 534
LB of Merton 020 8274 4901
Oswestry BC Lynn Strachan 01691 677 281
Swindon BC Andrew Cook 01793 464 536
Thurrock DC John Ronan 01375 652 910
Warwick DC Heather Parkinson 01926 456 615
New bods with their bins! The second intake of WESPers show off
their interactive dustbins
For more information on WESP contact: Alison Pagan, Education Projects Co-ordinator, 01328 711 369, alison@wastewatch.org.uk
How newspapers get recycled at Aylesford
One in seven of the UK's newspapers and
magazines are recycled at Aylesford Newsprint’s
paper mill in Kent. This equates to 500,000
tonnes of material, which is then turned into
400,000 tonnes of clean and 100% recycled
newsprint called Renaissance.
Paper has been made at the Aylesford site
since 1922. Renaissance, Aylesford’s branded
newsprint, was first made in 1995 upon the
arrival of PM14, Aylesford’s fourteenth paper
machine. PM14 has set five world records for
newsprint production, and in the three minutes
it takes to boil an egg, PM14 can make three
miles of newsprint!
The newspapers you read today may well
be printed on Renaissance paper. Aylesford
currently supplies newsprint to leading
newspaper publishers in the UK and mainland
Europe. Even newspaper titles that are not
printed on Renaissance are recycled at the mill
and become premium quality newsprint.
To find out about how your school can get
involved in recycling paper, please visit
Aylesford’s website, where there is a ‘Kids’
Zone’ on the Recycling page.
www.aylesford-newsprint.co.uk
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Waste Watch Education Projects
Regional projects
SWAC Cheshire
Martin Allman 01928 788 746
martin@wastewatch.org.uk
SWAC North Yorkshire
Nick Lishman & Melanie Chew
01609 761 818
nicklishman@wastewatch.org.uk
melaniec@wastewatch.org.uk
SWAC Nottinghamshire
Caty Darby 0115 977 2467
caty@wastewatch.org.uk
Rethink Rubbish
Western Riverside
Dan Beenham and Muria Roberts
020 7939 0797
daniel@wastewatch.org.uk
SWAC Rotherham
Irene Wise 01709 559 910
Irene@wastewatch.org.uk
National projects
Recyclerbility
www.wastewatch.org.uk
WESP
Alison Pagan 01328 711 369
alison@wastewatch.org.uk
SWAC support projects
SWAC Bexley
Sarah Evans 020 8303 7777 Ext 3605
sarah.evans@bexley.gov.uk
SWAC Essex
Cat Auckland 01245 437 169
catherine.auckland@essexcc.gov.uk
SWAC Lincolnshire
Helen Percy 01522 552 398
helen.percy@lincolnshire.gov.uk
SWAC Norfolk
Martina Glason & Jenny Craven
01603 727 881
Ashfield DC, Bassetlaw DC, Broxtowe BC, Gedling BC,
Mansfield DC, Newark & Sherwood DC, Rushcliffe BC
London Boroughs of Wandsworth, Lambeth, Hammersmith & Fulham
and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
supported by
To book a visit from Cycler, the Rapping Robot, please
complete the form on the education page
of the Waste Watch website
Pete Spriggs has now left WESP and we would like to wish him all the
best for the future and congratulate him on the excellent work he's done
on behalf of Waste Watch. Go Pete!
Breckland DC, Great Yarmouth BC,
North Norfolk DC, Norwich City Council,
South Norfolk DC, West Norfolk & Kings
Lynn BC, Broadland DC
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TEACHERS’ RESOURCES
Papermaking Poster
Every issue we review an education
resource. Here Emily Warren, a year
four teacher from Kirkby and
Broughton CE Primary School in
North Yorkshire, takes a look at a
colourful poster about papermaking
produced by the Confederation of
Paper Industries.
The audience
Papermaking, a poster which illustrates the cyclic nature of creating paper, is
produced by the Pulp and Paper Information Centre and is a highly informative resource
for the classroom. It is available free to teachers. Although I used it with a year four class
and the pictures would be suitable for year two, the processes described in the poster
are quite complicated and might be more suitable for the upper key stage. For example,
the ‘hydrapulper’ might not be a term that younger pupils will be familiar with!
Layout
One of the poster’s main appeals is its striking use of colour, which combines vibrant
purple and pink to make it instantly eye-catching. The pictures used to illustrate the
processes involved are simple in nature and will not overwhelm children. The text is a
little small, and could stand out more which means that the poster requires quite close
inspection. Children may also find the 17 processes that are described a little too much
to comprehend and remember. I would also have preferred the processes to be numbered,
or to have arrows, to indicate their sequence.
Dates
for your
diary
5 June
World Environment Day sees a host of activities taking
place around the globe. This annual event is organised by
the UN and has a truly international feel. Look out for local
events taking place near you. www.unep.org/wed/2004
5 June
This also marks the beginning of Wildlife Week, seven days of
events all over the country that help us appreciate what a
precious gift our natural wildlife really is.
www.wildlifetrusts.org
12 – 20 June
Bike week is the UK’s annual celebration of cycling.
Events are being planned all over the country so get
involved and show your commitment to pedal power.
www.bikeweek.org.uk
Curriculum links
This poster is undoubtedly valuable for teachers tackling work relating to the
environment and can be linked to Geography QCA Unit 8: Improving the environment,
as it provides a lot of information about the production and recycling of paper. It is also
great for cross-curricular links as it demonstrates different ways of representing
information in flow charts, cycles and diagrams, which will be useful for Literacy work.
Science (materials and their properties) could also be addressed by examining in
depth the properties of paper.
Overall, this resource provides some really useful information for both older children
and teachers alike, but be prepared to simplify it for a younger audience.
15 – 17 June
The Chartered Institute of Waste Management’s annual
conference and exhibition takes place in sunny Devon. Like
Glastonbury with wheelie bins, this is THE summer event in
the waste sector calendar. www.ciwm.co.uk
18 – 19 Sept
Beachwatch, now in its 11th year, is an annual event which
aims to clear up the rubbish that finds its way onto UK
beaches. Local events from Lands End to John O’Groats will
be doing their bit for a cleaner marine environment.
www.adoptabeach.org.uk
One free copy per school of this poster is available from www.paper.org.uk.
Go to the publications section of the website for full details.
.org.uk
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