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– Use refillable pens instead of disposable ones. Find uses for other items of waste, for example in artwork or using plastic pots for growing seeds. You can also mix it with water and mash it up to make a pulp for 3D modelling or making your own recycled paper. – Reuse old paper that cannot be written on any more to make ‘papier mache’ models or masks. The paper can then be used for ‘rough work’ or at wet play times. Make sure that every classroom has a ‘scrap’ paper tray and put paper that has only been used on one side into this, rather than putting it straight in the bin or sending it off for recycling. – Always use both sides of a piece of paper before you recycle it or throw it away. – When organising parties at Christmas and the end of term, use washable plates and cups and metal cutlery instead of disposable ones made from paper and plastic. – Buy snacks with less packaging on them, for example, an apple instead of a packet of crisps. And perhaps most importantly, don’t take more food than you can eat! Use reusable bottles or flasks for drinks instead of individual cartons or cans and reusable airtight containers for snacks and packed lunches instead of disposable wrappers. – If you take your own lunch to school, aim for ‘waste-free lunches’. – If your school has a lot of food waste, could this be because people are being given portions that are too big or (perhaps more likely) that they are being given things that they don’t want to eat? If this is the case, get your head teacher or school council to talk to the people who provide the food to the school. room out onto paper? And if so, could it be printed double sided? – Is it necessary to print everything you do in the I.T. – Rather than starting a new page for each piece of work, rule off below previous work and continue on the same page. Here are some ideas on how to do these three things at school: Reduce – Recycle means using things that have already been used, to make new things – Reuse means use things again (and again and again) – Reduce means cut the amount of stuff you use in the first place so that you have less to throw away We call these the 3Rs – reduce, reuse and recycle. Fortunately there are things that we can all do about it.