Paper Recycling Education Resources
Paper recycling is a great topic for educators, students, and their families. The links below provide information on several free resources related to paper recycling.
- AF&PA School Recycling Awards—The AF&PA Recycling Awards were created to recognize outstanding individual, school, business and community recycling efforts. Previous award-winning programs are featured with video highlights, podcast interviews and program descriptions. Visit to see how your school could win a monetary award and gain national press for your recycling program.
- Recycling Starts with YOU!—Free, standards-based curriculum developed by AF & PA with Scholastic, Inc. Grade 3-6 teachers and students will benefit from this downloadable, dynamic education program. Free engaging, standards-based classroom materials that build on core language arts and math skills while raising students’ awareness of the importance of paper recycling are available at www.paperrecycles.org.
- Recycle! It’s a Plus for the Environment—”Recycle! It’s A Plus for the Environment” – brought to you through a partnership between Project Learning Tree and the American Forest & Paper Association – will help motivate your students to take action. The poster shows how their choice to put used paper in the recycling bin starts a chain of events giving that paper new life as computer paper, grocery bags, newspapers, cardboard boxes, cereal boxes and more – items that are themselves recyclable in many communities. Included on the back is a standards-based activity that shows teachers and students how to make paper in the classroom.
- Recycling Troopers Video—Watch an example of a school recycling program that has succeeded in educating students, teachers and a community about paper recycling.
- Earth911 – Make Your Own Recycled Paper Activity—It’s so easy any class can do it!
