They say education is all about the 3Rs: Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic.

Now it's time to add another three: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

Schools are an excellent place to exercise resourceful living. Like our homes and places of work they also create a lot of waste and what better place to act as a champion for the community than the local school. Our schools are where we teach our children so there's no better place to start the message of resourceful living.

Waste Watch offers a really useful guide entitled work at waste at school (external link).

For your useful guide to resourceful living at school visit the tips section.