Sure Start Children create new toys for recycle week
Children at Harlow’s Sure Start centres
were making new toys using recycled materials during National
Recycle Week (22-28 June).
Harlow Council’s recycling team joined
toddlers and their parents in a number of play sessions and were
also promoted “green” products such as re-usable nappies.
The activities included making musical
shakers and mobiles from recycled objects, Let’s Pretend sessions
using cardboard box cars and creating kites from old carrier bags
and bin liners. There were also nature walks to collect
natural recyclable materials.
The theme for this year’s Recycle
Week was ‘let’s waste less’ and Recycle Now was encouraging
people to sign up to a number of waste busting pledges
including:
- Squashing and recycling cartons
- Sorting and recycling old electrical
items
- Reusing carrier bags
- Using leftovers to make delicious
lunches
- Choosing peat free compost
- Looking out for ‘Recycle’ package labels when
shopping
- Home composting kitchen and garden waste
- Donating unwanted clothes
More information about the pledges and how to
sign up is at http://www.recycleforessex.co.uk/
Chairman of the Environment and Community
Committee Cllr Hall said:
“Children are great recyclers. Every parent
knows that if you buy a child a toy, they’ll play with the box.
There are so many items that can be re-used.and reinvented – a
plastic container can be a rocket ship one day and turned into a
car the next.”