How can the Council help Schools/Youth Groups?

South Staffordshire Council’s Waste Awareness and Recycling Education Initiative supports the
National Recycle Now campaign.

The Council provides free recycling collection services for schools where appropriate, supported
by a package of activities. The project is designed to encourage participation in waste reduction,
and recycling increasing environmental awareness and sustainability.

The Council runs educational activities which link into the National Curriculum to highlight the local issues of waste and recycling
and strongly encourages schools to become Eco-schools.

Education Workshops

South Staffordshire Councils Recycling Workshops use waste & recycling as a theme. They include fun activities workshops such as recycled paper making, composting workshops, quizzes on waste and litter, competitions, ‘Get Recycling’ sports activities, visits from ‘Ali-can’ our can recycling mascot and ‘Recycler’ the rapping robot. All workshops will be organised and carried out by the Councils Recycling Team. Each workshop will be provided free of charge to schools within the district, to support the schools recycling initiatives.

Workshops available to South Staffordshire School’s include:

• Composting workshops (including free composter and teaching material)
  a) Making ‘mini-beasts’ by recycling local scrap.
  b) Growing ‘grass heads’ using recycled compost.
• Recycled paper making workshop
• Waste and litter quiz
• Litter workshop
• ‘Get Recycling’ sports activities.
  

South Staffordshire Schools Free Recycling & Cash Reward Schemes

The Council provide free facilities and support to encourage recycling & composting at school.

• Schools Paper Bank Scheme – we collect paper & magazines and make a monetary donation for the amount recycled.
• Schools ‘Scrap Store’ Scheme – we collect small items of scrap such as bottle tops, corks, old CD’s, film canisters
  and exchange them for art & craft ‘scrap’ materials from the ‘Staffordshire Community Council Playaway Scrapstore’.
• Schools Can Recycling Scheme – we collect cans for recycling and make a monetary donation for the amount recycled.
• 'Rewards for making a Difference’ South Staffordshire Green Awards – we provide cash prizes of upto £500.00 for Schools
  showing they are making an environmental difference in South Staffordshire. Download an application form.
• Schools Compost Bin Scheme – free compost bins and caddies are available for Schools in South Staffordshire.

All schemes are backed-up by free visits and workshops.

Recycling, Composting and Waste Community Promotions

The Council, as part of their recycling environmental awareness education package, attend various village
carnivals and fairs throughout the district. The events provide lots of ideas on simple actions to 'Watch your waste!'
and 'Do Your Bit!' for the environment. These may be attended by the Councils campaign mascots,
including Barry Binit & Ali-can.

If you are a school, youth or community group in South Staffordshire and would like more information
on any of our education schemes contact us or call our Recycling Helpline.