school recycling
Recycling Starts With You
AF&PA and Scholastic have teamed-up to create a free, downloadable mini-poster that features standards-based math, science, and language arts lessons about paper recycling for third through sixth-grade students.
Click here to download and/or print earlier versions of the recycling materials created by AF&A and Scholastic.
How To Make Paper
Making Paper demonstrates a standards-based Project Learning Tree classroom activity, while also educating students about the actualy paper making process.
AF&PA Recycling Award Winners
The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&A) Recycling Awards recognize outstanding programs that promote the recovery of high quality paper for recycling.
- Paper and paperboard recovery has increased 81% between 1990 and 2011.
- Every ton of paper recycled saves more than 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space.
- 87 percent (268 million) of Americans have access to curbside or drop-off paper recycling programs.
- In 2011 the amount of paper recovered for recycling averaged 338 pounds for each man, woman and child in the United States.