Tell Recycle Now how you encourage your DCs to recycle for a chance to win an iPad mini! NOW CLOSED

[AnnMumsnet]

We are all aware of the importance of recycling, but it can be easy to forget when we’re all so busy browsing MN threads. Recycle Now has teamed up with Wastebuster to launch a campaign to encourage more families to recycle more items, more often. They would like to hear how you encourage your DCs to recycle and for you to take part in their Home Recycling Challenge.

Here’s what Recycle Now has to say: “To help kids recycle more at home, we’ve created the Home Recycling Challenge, which includes the chance to win great prizes. Here’s how you and your family can take part:

Step 1 – visit wastebuster.co.uk/homerecyclingchallenge and download the competition sheet/ recycling poster template

Step 2 – use the recycling locator with your kids to find out what can and can’t be recycled in your area and use this information to fill in the blanks and decorate on your poster

Step 3 – stick the poster up in your home and take a family selfie

Step 4 – upload your photo to the Recycling Hero Hall of Fame to be in with a shot of winning some great prizes!

Every family has a different routine, and we want to hear about how you teach your kids good recycling habits that they can take forward into later life. Did you know that you can recycle bleach bottles, shampoo bottles, kitchen cleaner bottles, baby food jars, aerosol deodorants, face cream pots and dishwasher tablet boxes?”

Have a look at their video here

So how do you get your DC to recycle at home? Maybe you make a game of it by seeing who can recycle the most? Perhaps you make it easier to sort by having stickered bins? Do you take it in turns or is it one person’s job? Or do you give your DC rewards for recycling?

Please share on this thread how you encourage your DCs to recycle below and you will be entered into the prize draw to where one winner will win an iPad mini.

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

Standard Insight T and Cs Apply

Our little girl is only 2 but is already becoming very aware of recycling. She watches the Peppa Pig episode about recycling as she loves the song about it. It must be working though as she sings it and helps us pick what items are for which recycle bin etc. Start them young.

We have 3 bins in the kitchen, one for normal rubbish, one for plastic and cardboard and one for glass. They are quite good at sorting their rubbish and will always ask which bin if they are not sure.

They sometimes take recycling into school for junk modelling too.

My Great Niece has just turned 4 & she is really good at recycling. She loves to help her GG & Grandpa by putting their waste in the correct bin as both of them have mobility problems, bless her

It is my son who encourages us to do the recycling! Ever since they did a project at school he has keenly observed and encouraged us. It is something we now do naturally at home and don't leave it until it mounts up and becomes a chore.

Nothing! At 5 and 2 recycling basically means posting stuff into a box, which they love don't need any encouragement!

Recycling has never been a problem. Our daughter was heavily involved with the RSPB, and both children always thought of the future and recycled, without being asked.

My children worry about the state of the environment so are only too happy to recycle. Sometimes I am just too tired to start emptying a mouldy jar of something and scrub the inside so I chuck it in the bin only to find one of them spots it and calls me up on it!

Mine are still small enough to be thrilled at being allowed to put things in a bin themselves, so all I have to do is point them towards a recycling bin!

One of mine has recently done a school project on reusing/recycling etc and is now quite an expert, bossing us all into 'sorting properly'!

As my DC is very young, we have recently taught her that plastic bottles get recycled and that she shouldn't throw them away. She should leave them on the dining room table and "mummy" will sort the rest. She's slowly learning and we're gradually trying to add more items to the list!

My children are already very keen on recycling having done a project on it for school. We have 2 bins in our kitchen and they know which is which and recycle as much as they can.

one of the children's jobs at home is to sort all the recycling out & they have their own little veggie patch so learn a lot about composting and re-using materials/food waste in the garden

Our's are recycling fiends! We daren't hide a manky pizza both in the general rubbish!
They're great re-crafters of items from recycling, but any tips to persuade them to return squashed / broken models from their bedrooms to the boxes welcomed....?

Make daughter the recycling police for the house, however the power has gone a little to her head

my daughter is a tually very good at recycling after being taught about it at school. my nephews not so much so i get them to recycle by showing them videos about recycling and things on you tube about the damage doing to envirnmoent

A rewards chart is displayed in the kitchen to remind of recycling

we have a set of raffle tickets for various jobs - whichever one you pull out on Sunday evening it is your job for the week - in there somewhere is a ticket that says FOR YOU - WEEK OFF (the joy of finding it is unbelievable!)

my kids are much better then my hubby with the recycling to be honest. My youngest is 3 and she loves emptying our little box into the recycling bin. she thinks its great

Our DC has a strange fascination with the tip, probably stems from the hundreds of trips we did when she was young during a house renovation, so getting her to recycle is easy as she is always asking if we are going!

My kids love recycling. We have a box that they put everything to recycle in. We sometimes use some of it for projects, like making a robot, or arts and crafts. My son loves sorting the stuff into the correct bins.

The kids help sort rubbish into bins in the kitchen. We have a box for tins and glass, and a rack for cardboard and paper. Our rubbish bin and a food waste bin. It's the norm for the kids to recycle, its nana that struggles lol. It's husband job to take it all outside.

I don't give rewards as it's just something that everyone does. Their school is very eco friendly so they learn a lot about recycling and this then helps at home.

We have a large outside storage chest in the front garden where we store the various recycling bags.
The children are happy to help my husbadn in taking them out and putting them in the correct bag.
They particularly enjoy crushing any cans that are due to go for recycling.

we have an allotment - so recycling is second nature to us. I think the most important thing is to make your children aware of how much recycling can be done. Things do change over time so its best to check now and again (i did ask about recycling tinfoil about 6 years ago and in the last couple of years the council now say it can go in the recycling box). As for encouraging him to recycle that is easy, he is 15 and doesnt like me going through his bin so he puts all the paper in the paper bin, the plastics tin and glass in that bin and compostable stuff in the compost bin. I am a bit of a skip rat so he helps me (as long as no one under the age of 40 can see him) to carry stuff home/to the allotment! haha

Our local toddler group has been great for getting kids to put their scraps into a food bin before putting their plates up on the unit,and it is definitely rubbing off as at home dd insists of scraping her own dinner waste into the food box