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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites. | | | FACTS | | The schools are: St Bartholomews CE Primary, Wootton Bassett, Ashton Keynes CE Primary, Broad Town CE Primary, Corsham Primary, Lacock Primary, Frogwell and Ivy Lane Primary Schools in Chippenham, and Staverton CE Primary School, Trowbridge. The Schools Recycling Scheme is a partnership with Hills Waste. In the seven years since it began operating, it has brought the Reduce, Re-use, Recycle message home to thousands of children, their parents and communities all over Wiltshire. The scheme has saved more than 1,000 tonnes of waste paper from landfill. It would take 17,000 trees to make this much paper from wood pulp. By turning it into recycled paper, the scheme has saved enough water to flush a toilet 4,240,000 times, and enough electricity to run an average house for 500 years! | | | PRINT THIS PAGE | |  View a printable version of this page. | |  |
| | Part of a free national programme offered to schools by Waste Watch, Cycler dances, raps and chats to children between the ages of five and eleven about issues related to waste.  | | Wiltshire's Waste Warrior and Cycer drive home the message about rubbish. |
These are children who know a thing or two about reducing rubbish themselves. The schools all belong to the Schools Recycling Scheme, a partnership between Wiltshire Wildlife Trust and Hills Waste which is co-organising the Cycler visits. Tania Crockett, Education Officer for the Trust, said: Children are amazed by Cycler. The rapping robot really brings the Three Rs of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle to life.  | | The future is in their hands and in their landfill schemes! |
The schools are presented with awards for the amount of waste paper they have collected for recycling. Broad Town school recently received a special trophy for reaching the astonishing total of 50 tonnes (ten large bin-lorries full). Presenting the awards is another larger-than-life special guest - the Waste Warrior - a cartoon Viking in a dress! The Trusts education programme offers minibeast safaris in school grounds, an inspection of the classroom bin, discovering a hidden chest in an ancient woodland or exploring the amazing underwater world of Wiltshires rivers. Some of these programmes take place at a number of the Trusts nature reserves, in particular Langford Lakes, where a purpose-built environmental education facility is taking shape. Others take place in schools, but all are linked to the National Curriculum. |
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