Shropshire schools to learn good habits from rapping robot Recycler

19 March 2010

SHROPSHIRE children will soon be learning how to reduce, re-use and recycle in a novel way – they are going to be taught by a rapping robot.

Shropshire Council has arranged for the robot Recycler to visit primary schools in the county during the coming week. Recycler will deliver an interactive programme designed by the environmental charity Waste Watch.

The robot, with the help of a ‘Recyclerteer’ (an education officer), will perform a show that includes the recycling rap, story-telling and a quiz.

The programme was initially funded by WRAP and Waste Watch had three robots touring schools around the UK. However, Waste Watch Education Co-ordinator Leena Patel says “the funding was pulled so now we work with local authorities to deliver the education programme”.

It is believed that Recycler helps to convey the recycling message to young people in both an enjoyable and interactive way. Schoolchildren learn to sing along to its catchy ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ rap. And pupils are encouraged to take the message home to their parents.

Leena Patel says: “Teaching children at a younger age about recycling and reducing waste is great because they are enthusiastic and take the message on board. We also work with secondary schools but often this is harder because there’s not so much enthusiasm.”

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