Children's Recycling Resources

Recycling presentation, videos and song
Recycling leaflets and posters
Resources for Early Years Foundation and KS1
Resources for KS2
MK Eco Warriors for KS2
Activities and Crafts - suitable for all ages
Recycling web links
School Trips and Talks
We hope you enjoy these resources for children of all ages, which can be used at home or in school. Any queries please email wasteeducation@milton-keynes.gov.uk
Recycling presentation, videos and song
- Presentation: MK Recycles, for classroom or assembly (PPTX, 14.9MB)
- Presentation script: MK Recycles, for classroom or assembly (PDF, 152KB)
- Video: How MK Recycling Factory works
- Video: Food Waste by Walton High School
- Sing: Green Green Milton Keynes Sing-along video
- Sing: Green, Green Milton Keynes Song Words (PDF, 242KB)
Parks Trust also offer on-line assemblies, including littering, looking after the environment.
Recycling leaflets and posters
To request leaflets to be posted out please email wasteeducation@milton-keynes.gov.uk stating amount required.
Classroom wall posters:
- Poster: Classroom Recycling Poster (JPG, 248KB)
- Poster: What happens to my recycling? (PDF, 334KB)
- Poster: Recycling Facts Posters (PDF, 4.4MB)
- Poster: Why do we recycle (PDF, 422KB)
- Poster: Litter breakdown times (PDF, 322KB)
- Wall display: Recycling in MK (PDF, 4MB)
- Wall display: Litter (PDF, 841KB)
Bin posters:
- Poster: Recycling bin poster (PDF, 355KB)
- Poster: Paper bin poster (PDF, 323KB)
- Poster: Rubbish bin poster (PDF, 388KB)
- Poster: Food waste bin poster (PDF, 366KB)
- Poster: Glass recycling bin poster (PDF, 405KB)
- Poster: Shredder sign (PDF, 216KB)
Resources for Early Years Foundation and KS1
Use these resources to encourage young children to help with recycling and care for the environment. Also, find additional activity and craft resources suitable for all ages listed further down this webpage.
- Mini eco warrior autumn challenges (PDF, 156KB)
- Mini eco warrior spring challenges (PDF, 166KB)
- Mini eco warrior litter pledge (PDF, 227KB)
- Craft: Harry hedgehog paper collage sheet (PDF, 228KB)
- Craft: Danny duckling nest collage (PDF, 462KB)
- Colour-in: People who help us - recycling lorry (PDF, 353KB)
- Colour-in: Fun Food waste sheet (PDF, 258KB)
- Activity: Recycle wall chart (PDF, 161KB)
- Quiz: Eye spy in the park (PDF, 381KB)
- Quiz: Eye spy in the street (PDF, 440KB)
- Quiz: Eye spy in the woods (PDF, 457KB)
- Quiz: Listening list (PDF, 191KB)
- Game: Recycle matching pairs card game (PDF, 755KB)
- Sing: The Recycle rhyme (PDF, 289KB)
Resources for KS2
- Worksheet: Recycling container match up (PDF, 500KB)
- Worksheet: What is it recycled into quiz? (PDF, 359KB)
- Worksheet: Landfill A to Z challenge (PDF, 355KB)
- Worksheet: The Iron Man and the Recycling Factory (PDF, 227KB)
- Worksheet: Clear sack contents quiz (PDF, 372KB)
- Worksheet: Recycling wordsearch (PDF, 318KB)
- Worksheet: Rubbish wordsearch (PDF, 322KB)
- Worksheet: Recycling quiz (PDF, 327KB)
World War 2 National Savage Campaign
- Worksheet: WW2 National Salvage Campaign (PDF, 248KB)
- WW2 Cogs recycling scheme (PDF, 301KB)
- Craft: WW2 Gas Mask craft (PDF, 261KB)
- Craft: WW2 Anderson Shelter Craft (PDF, 213KB)
- Craft: WW2 Poster create (PDF, 213KB)

MK Eco Warriors for KS2
Free to all MK Junior Schools the Eco Warriors scheme is designed to encourage and educate children about their impact on the environment. A5 activity booklet are provided for each participating pupil, which include activities on recycling, litter, appreciating nature, getting out and about, etc.
Activities and Crafts - suitable for all ages
- Activity: Design a recycling lorry (PDF, 353KB)
- Activity: Activity ideas (PDF, 269KB)
- Activity: At home recycling challenge grid (PDF, 548KB)
- Activity: Create your own poster (PPTX, 1.7MB)
- Game: Recycle Bingo! game (PDF, 1MB)
- Game: Litter breakdown (PDF, 841KB)
- Litter pledge certificate (PDF, 204KB)
- Game: Table Top Recycling Game (PDF, 479KB)
Craft Ideas
- Craft: Cardboard bunting (PDF, 430KB)
- Craft: Paper collage (PDF, 247KB)
- Craft: Plastic bottle top mosaic (PDF, 227KB)
- Craft: Milk bottle elephant (PDF, 397KB)
- Craft: Bottle top cards (PDF, 256KB)
- Craft: Bottle top bug (PDF, 321KB)
- Craft: Bin bag monster (PDF, 419KB)
- Craft: Box puppet theatre (PDF, 264KB)
- Craft: Book mouse (PDF, 274KB)
- Craft: Celebration rosette card (PDF, 329KB)
Find even more free on-line environmental activities on the Parks Trust resources webpage.
Recycle Now schools pages also provide nationally produced resources in partnership with WRAP.
Recycling web links
Check what goes in each recycling container and then test a grow-up!
- What goes in the clear recycling sack?
- www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/blacksack
- www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/bluebox
- www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/greenbin
- www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/yellowbag
Preloved school uniform
Advice on setting up a preloved school uniform shop (PDF, 352KB)
Free MK School trips and talks
To register your interest in future talks and tours of the MK Recycling Factory and MK Waste Recovery Park once these become available again please email wasteeducation@milton-keynes.gov.uk. Please see instead our Eco Warrior scheme and classroom Power Point presentation listed above.
Last Updated: 3 February 2021