With the end of year clean up in action this week, I’m sure we’ll be finding out lots of old dried ups pens and textas. These items can be recycled and made into other useable items, not only will this reduce landfill, but it will mean less plastic is needed to be produced.
Let’s collect as many old pens, textas and dead white board markers as we can and send them off to a better place than landfill.
So don’t write that next pen off! Recycle it!
This short video explains the entire recycling process of the writing instruments from collection to the final transformation.
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What you can recycle in this program
Accepted waste in this programme:
All writing instruments (except for wooden pencils, crayons and chalk) are accepted:
Any brand of pen, felt tip, highlighter, marker, correction fluid pot (must be empty), correction tape, mechanical pencil and eraser pen regardless of their composition.
Note that we do not accept glue sticks, erasers, rulers or other cutting objects that could disturb the recycling process. Please be careful not to include any of those items.
What happens to the waste
Once collected, the writing instruments are cleaned and melted into hard plastic that can be remoulded to make new recycled products.
Here’s a poster that can go up in your classroom!
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