Recycling Landfill Waste Resources
Parents, children, teachers and the local community collect waste resources for our recycling scheme which raises money benefitting the children, school, and the environment.
This scheme was introduced in Autumn of 2012 by one of the parents Carrie Cort, founder of a green initiative called www.sussexgreenliving.co.uk.
This community initiative is a website, network and green children's club which inspires families to live greener and more sustainable lives.
The waste resources are sent to a company called TerraCycle. TerraCycle work with manufacturers who want to be responsible about their waste resources, so they sponsor our recycling scheme to ensure that the waste does not go to landfill.
Thank you to everyone who collects for William Penn, you are raising money for our children and for helping the environment for future generations.
These are waste resources you can collect!
- Ballpoint pens, felt tips, biros, correction fluid, markers & highlighters
- Biscuit wrappers - sweet biscuit and cracker wrappers
- Fruit & vegetable baby food pouches
- Laptops, notebooks, netbooks & tablets, iPads - working or broken
- Mobile phones - working or broken
- Plastic milk bottle tops
- Home cleaning products plastic bottle caps, trigger heads, pumps & cleaning wipe packaging
- Personal care & beauty products - plastic bottle caps, trigger heads, pumps, tubes, roll-on-deodorant & flexible plastic wipe packaging
- Plastic air fresheners, cartridges & plastic air freshener packaging
- Inkjet cartridges - HP, Dell, Lexmark, Canon, Samsung, Neopost
- Unwanted neck ties
- Aluminium ring pulls
Textile Recycling
William Penn School is proud to support a Horsham based charity 'Bags of Support' which offer schools a fundraising scheme that enables people to recycle unwanted textiles. This raises money for extra curricular activities & support at the school and it helps the environment by recycling textiles rather than them going to landfill.
Bags of Support are passionate about supporting local community and doing what they can to improve the environment. By collecting and recycling unwanted clothes, shoes, and bedding William Penn can earn money and help to reduce waste destined for landfill. With 1.2 million tonnes of household textile waste going to landfill each year, it encourages our children to lead the way and reduce our global footprint.
The founder of Bags of Support, Karrie pledges to donate 50% of the profits to the Glodeni Orphanage in central Romania. This orphanage supports 40 children who are either orphans or have been abandoned by their families who are simply unable to cope.
Twice a year in the spring and autumn, each William Penn pupil will be given a bin liner to take home, in which they are asked to collect unwanted items, then on a set date these are bought into the school for Bags of Support to collect. Teachers, school staff, the pupils, their parents, grandparents, wider family and friends are encouraged to participate too.
Through this scheme you can recycle:
- Clothes
- Belts
- Bags
- Shoes
- Soft toys and bedding (sheets, blankets but not duvets or pillows)