Maldon District Council provides excellent support for schools by offering several initiatives and recycling schemes to get involved with.

Visits can also be made by a Recycling Officer to give talks or workshops on subjects such as the 3R's, composting, or packaging.

Workshops are also given by Essex County Council, although these are on a strictly first-come first-serve basis. Please click here for more information.

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Initiatives

LMB - Almost all of our schools are joined to this excellent scheme which enables schools to raise money for themselves by recycling shoes and textiles.  

You may take clothes and shoes to your local school to help raise money. Here is a list of participating schools:

Heybridge Primary School

St Leonards junior school

St Mary Primary School

Wentworth Primary School

St Cedds School

Purleigh Community

Maldon Primary School

Burnham-on-Crouch County Primary

Tollesbury County Primary

Tolleshunt D'Arcy St Nicolas Primary

Cold Norton Primary School

Maldon Court Prep School

Tillingham St Nicholas CofE

Tilllingham Pre-School

All saints Maldon CofE (peter burtons school)

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Yellow Woods Challenge - Now in its 8th year, and primary schools have the opportunity to win a share of £700 of local prizes.

The challenge runs from the 1st September 2008 until 26th September 2008. To take part all your school needs to do is collect the front covers of the Yellow Pages for recycling, and mark each cover with the school and pupil's name. The remainder of the yellow pages can be recycled at home and placed in the blue recycling box for kerbside collection, or at one of the Recycling Centres.

Yellow Pages, the Directory Recycling Scheme and the Woodland Trust run this simple, educational and fun environmental campaign to get children into the recycling habit while learning all about paper, recycling and woodland conservation. So far over 34 tonnes of Yellow Pages have been saved from landfill with each year proving more successful than the last!

For further information and to register your school's involvement please call 01621 854477

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We also encourage schools to sign up to the excellent Recycool scheme, which collects cartridges and mobile phones. Each item raises money for the school to spend on what they wish.

A list of particpating schools will soon be published here. Please ask at your local school whether they collect cartidges or mobiles through this scheme to raise money for the school.

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Almost all of our schools receive a paper recycling facility. It is hoped that over the next year we will be able to provide the rest of the schools with a paper collection.

Websites with useful teaching resources

Information on can recycling