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You can get children involved in an educational project on recycling materials and help rescue the environment into the bargain, as Joyce Reid discovers Anyone working with primary school children will tell you that they know a lot about recycling and see it as a very natural thing to do. The message can start even earlier at nursery age. Morag Grant, recycling officer with Angus Council in Scotland, spends much of her time educating the public on recycling - and what better place to start off than in nurseries?

Anyone working with primary school children will tell you that they know a lot about recycling and see it as a very natural thing to do. The message can start even earlier at nursery age. Morag Grant, recycling officer with Angus Council in Scotland, spends much of her time educating the public on recycling - and what better place to start off than in nurseries?

Morag is confident that three- and four-year-olds can begin to understand the importance of recycling. 'When I go into a nursery, I show them my little model wheelie bin and they all know that they have got one at home,'

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