Posted on: 24th April 2023
Recycle to Read
As you know, Hartlebury is very proud to be an Eco School and we are always looking for great new projects to take part in. Therefore, we have just signed up to a project called “Recycle to Read!”
Every year in the UK we throw away over 206,000 tonnes of textile waste and it can take 200+ years for the materials to decompose in a landfill! Recycle to Read takes unwanted clothes and textiles which have been donated to school and not only recycles them, exchanges them with the school for book vouchers! Therefore, we are asking all our Hartlebury families to dig out any clothes they no longer wear and would like to donate and bring them into school. In exchange we are saving clothes from going to landfill and could earn up to £400 of new books for our children!
Donations we can accept include: clothes, shoes, handbags, belts, bedsheets, covers and pillowcases (not pillows and duvets). If you think you have items you could donate please drop them off either at the school office or send them in with your child and ask them to take them to the Year 6 classroom.
Many thanks for your support and if you have any questions at all please do let us know.