This fall marks the exciting start of the third year of our Recycling Heroes in School program – now with an even stronger focus on beverage container recycling education!
We’re proud to have partnered with The Gaia Project to create engaging, curriculum-aligned lesson plans for elementary students across New Brunswick. This resource, officially released in October, helps teachers incorporate deposit-bearing beverage container recycling into classroom learning in a fun and meaningful way.
To support these lessons, Encorp produced a kid-friendly educational video that explains why returning beverage containers to redemption centres (RCs) matters, and what happens to those containers after they’re dropped off. You can watch the video anytime on our website (The Lifecycle of Beverage Containers web page).
We also launched our Support our Recycling Heroes campaign again this fall! This initiative encourages New Brunswickers to donate their beverage containers to participating schools by asking
RCs to add those containers to the schools’ commercial accounts.
Our website features a full list of participating schools and their partnered RCs (Support Our Recycling Heroes! web page), making it easy for family/community members to know where to go. The campaign will run throughout most of the school year, so keep an eye out for those donations!
Finally, if your RC works with schools that aren’t yet part of the program, we encourage you to invite them to apply. Participation is free and provides schools with additional supplies and funding to boost their recycling efforts. Applications are available on our Recycling Heroes in School web page.
