ACTIVITY: Paper Recycling Box
Background
You can make your own recycling containers to collect your paper. Recycling paper is one of
the easiest ways to start recycling, and it’s important too because paper makes up 35 per cent
of what goes in the landfill – when all that paper could have been recycled instead!
This is what can be put in the Blue Bin for Paper at your local Recycling Depot:
Newspapers
Magazines
Flyers
Telephone books
Hardcover books
Computer paper
Posters
Paperback books
Coloured paper
Envelopes
Egg cartons (no styrofoam)
X No wax paper
X No gift wrap
Materials
List of what belongs in the paper blue bin
Box which fits copy paper and newspapers
Construction or coloured paper
Glue
Markers or crayons
Pictures of woods or nature from magazines
Stickers
Instructions
1. Discuss why it is important to recycle paper and what belongs in the Paper Blue Bin at the
Recycling Depot.
2. Use the materials listed above to make an AWESOME recycling box. Some words you may
want to use on the box are: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Paper, Save Trees.
3. Participants also may want to post the list of what paper they can recycle somewhere on
their box. For example, newspaper, old school tests, magazines, old phone books, etc.
4. Bring home your box, and recycle tonnes of paper!
5. Even more…To help remind families to recycle paper, have children make reminder notes to
place on kitchen garbage cans, such as “No paper – Recycle It!”
6. For more information on the location of a Recycling Depot in your community, look on our
website at www.FundyRecycles.com or call 738-1212.
Hotline 738-1212
www.FundyRecycles.com
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