March 1, 2022
18th March is Global Recycling Day. This year it is focussed on the ‘recycling fraternity’, celebrating those who put themselves on the frontline to collect waste and recycling during the multiple lockdowns. There is also a stress on the importance of education about recycling and pollution.
At 2Simple, we haven’t collected waste, but we have collected a range of activities and put them on the same page in Purple Mash, so that you can easily access and use them in class, encouraging everyone to recycle.
We have several writing activities that you can use for Recycling Week. Use our Recycling Debate worksheet to prepare for a debate on whether people should be recycling their household waste and to encourage more people to recycle why not combine persuasive words and images to get your pupils reminding us why we should be recycling rubbish. You can also use our Litter Poster to explain why people should not be dropping litter, asking questions like what effect does this have on the environment, and why is littering bad? You can also write a Litter Report detailing why people drop litter and what we can do to stop it.
We also have some paint projects that you can use. You could design your very own recycling symbol and use it to thank our key workers for collecting our waste during the lockdown periods. Alternatively, use our recycle box template to paint what items you can recycle, you could then display these in school as a reminder to pupils and staff to do the right thing. You can also, as always, live the dream and become a refuse collector by using our Mashcam.
There is also a selection of recycling themed Mini Mash games and puzzles for younger learners to try.
