Increasing population and higher standards of living are pressurising our resources, many of which are finite. Businesses must conserve these resources as well as use them more wisely.

Reclaim offers a range of waste paper recycling services that assist production efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and create economic benefits for individual businesses and organisations.

Reclaim has designed a simple and effective system for the secure destruction and recycling of confidential business paper. Reclaim has provided this service to small, medium and large organisations for over 15 years.

Recycling for Kids

Teachers, children, and parents can have fun learning about how recycling improves the environment and provides a path to sustainable living.

This section of our website is designed for school children, teachers, and parents. Here you will find downloadable resources to aid youth learning when it comes to waste and recycling.

From repurposing materials through to educating children on what happens to recycling, there are endless initiatives and activities that can engage parents, teachers and children in recycling concepts and to make changes in favour of a zero-waste New Zealand. Some of the initiatives include:

Make your own worm farm
Build a compost container for your yard
Make your own bees wax wrap
Sort your recycling
Make you own paper
Learn how to turn old newspaper into fire bricks
Do a waste audit

For more activities and initiatives inspiration check out our resources and activities assets.

31 Day Challenge

31 activities to be completed in 31 days. Some are easy but others will be a real challenge!

Children Recycling Around The World

You can download this picture and print it in A3 or A4 for some colouring-in fun. These children are from all over the world and are committed to recycling just like you are.

Join the Dots

What picture will be revealed in this join-the-dots exercise? Challenging enough for older kids, but younger ones will still have fun with it.

Make your own worm farm!

Here you will find some basic hints and tips for making your own worm farm, as well as how to manage it, and where you can buy one from if you'd prefer not to make one.

Recycling Crossword

The 10 clues of this quick crossword should help you figure out the recycling terms quite easily. Give it a go!

Recycling Crossword (hard)

Give this recycling crossword a go! There are 20 questions, some are easy, some are hard.

Recycling Truck Maze

Try to get the recycling truck through the maze to pick the driver's last cage of cardboard before he stops for lunch.

Recycling Truck Maze (hard)

Try to get the recycling truck through the maze to pick the driver's last cage of cardboard before he stops for lunch. This one might be a little tricky!

Recycling Week Bingo

See if you can complete 3 activities in a row.

School Posters

Neat posters for you use around your school. You can print them as A3 or A4.

Sustainable Actions Tally

A tally chart is a great way to visualise how small sustainable actions can really add up over time. Keep it individual or make it a challenge between groups of students / staff!

Waste Minimisation Word Find (easy)

Have a go at finding the 20 words in this fun word find!

Waste Minimisation Word Find (hard)

Give this fun, but challenging word find puzzle a go and try to find all 30 words.

Waste Wise Organic Recycling Programme

This is an excellent classroom manual packed full of great ideas for composting in schools. Families might also find much of what is in these pages very useful for keeping the kids busy during the holidays.

Waste Wise School Pack

This is a great resource for teachers and schools by Waste Education Services (an initiative funded by Tasman District and Nelson City Councils). It provides useful guidelines for schools and teachers who want to integrate waste management education into their curriculum.