Last year Ilkeston School won 1^st prize as their pupils successfully promoted waste awareness through a recycled fashion show, sculptures made from reclaimed materials, and developed plans for the school’s future in the shape of an Eco Group.

What are your ideas for spreading the message about reducing, reusing and recycling?

Whether it's composting at school, or spreading the word about reusable carrier bags at your local supermarket, email us your ideas and we will add them to this site for all to see.

Your Ideas

With all the reused stuff that you collect you could make different types of sculptures. From Chloe hunt, Kelly Gunn, Chelsea Thomas and Jenny Kipling.

My idea is for a recycling parade, where people encourage children and families to recycle. The people in the parade will dress up in recycled clothes which will make families see that you can do more with recycling. But the main part of the parade will be a giant recycling box and the crowd throw in their recyclables.

Miss Lauren Eaton

A fashion show where you make all the clothes out of recycled things

 from BETHANY AND TRAFFORD 

My idea is that people should make Leaflets and banners about how recycling can change things for the future e.g In the play that you performed at my school,it showed us that if you don't recycle people in the future might not have the things that we had.

From Sammie, Buxton

My Idea is to make a model village from the future. People pay a small amount to visit the model village and see what the world would be like in the future if nothing is changed. People would enter the village and see how everything isn’t how it is now, but how it is in the play. With houses being built on landfill sites, banana’s costing £600 and everything being made to be used once and then disposed off. When people pay to go in it’s something like a pound per person and the money goes towards recycling plants. People would see how the world could be in the future and start to change their lifestyles.

Joseph, Heritage Mathematics and Computing Specialist School

My idea is if people make banners and hang them in different places like streets and city’s and try to encourage people to recycle and billboards about recycling and if we don’t recycle what it can do in the future and put them in city`s and primary and secondary schools and on the streets. If we went in to primary schools and talked to the children they might recycle and if they have recycling bins in primary and secondary schools for them to recycle things because from a younger age it will teach them how to recycle.

Jayne, Tibshelf Community School      

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