What’s on the Recycling poster
Usually yes against Usually no, side by side.
- Usually yes: Paper and cardboard, clean and dry
- Usually yes: Glass bottles and jars
- Usually yes: Metal tins and cans
- Usually yes: Plastic bottles
- Usually yes: Aluminium foil, clean and balled
- Usually no: Greasy pizza boxes
- Usually no: Crisp packets and film
- Usually no: Polystyrene
- Usually no: Drinking glasses and ceramics
- Usually no: Tissues and kitchen roll
- Usually no: Nappies
- Wishcycling — putting something in hopefully — contaminates loads and sends good mate…
Rules vary substantially by local authority. Check your own council's list; general advice is often wrong locally.
Questions about the Recycling poster
- What’s on the Recycling poster?
- Usually yes against Usually no, side by side. Usually yes: Paper and cardboard, clean and dry; Usually yes: Glass bottles and jars; Usually yes: Metal tins and cans; Usually yes: Plastic bottles; Usually yes: Aluminium foil, clean and balled; Usually no: Greasy pizza boxes; Usually no: Crisp packets and film; Usually no: Polystyrene; Usually no: Drinking glasses and ceramics; Usually no: Tissues and kitchen roll; Usually no: Nappies; Wishcycling — putting something in hopefully — contaminates loads and sends good mate…. Rules vary substantially by local authority. Check your own council's list; general advice is often wrong locally.
- Who is the Recycling poster for?
- Recycling belongs to the Practical skills section rather than to a school year, because life skills is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning home can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Recycling poster?
- Clean, dry and loose. Food residue and bagged recycling both cause rejection. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Recycling belongs on the wall where that life skills work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Recycling?
- Cleaning a Room, Cleaning Products and Decluttering sit alongside Recycling in the Practical skills section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Cleaning a RoomCleaning ProductsDecluttering
- Is the Recycling poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Recycling downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Practical skills section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Recycling poster print at?
- Recycling is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Recycling loses nothing.Printing guide
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