The environmental education and citizenship project “Class Recycling”, created in collaboration with Buone Notizie and Corriere della Sera, is being relaunched for the 2025/2026 school year in a completely new format. A redesigned teaching kit will also be distributed to schools across the country.

The new educational project centres around the online Recycling Game (“Riciclo Game”), available at https://riciclogame.scuola.net allows students to play together in class (or even at home with their families) while having fun learning about the characteristics of the seven materials and the key rules for effective recycling.

For the end‑of‑year educational contest, schools are asked to produce and invent new games, including analogue ones, to participate in the final competition.

The school kit includes a teacher’s guide, a poster with the ten rules for quality separate waste collection and a practical handbook offering teachers practical suggestions and playful, hands-on activities to help classes develop their contest entry.

Through the engaging presence of Bin, the main character and mascot of Recycling Game, even younger students can explore the theme of recycling within the broader context of responsibility and care for nature – bearing in mind that environmental education is listed among the mandatory subjects in the Ministry of Education’s Guidelines for the Teaching of Civic Education.

The “Class Recycling” project has been included in the Ministry of Education’s “School Regeneration Plan”, promoted by the Ministry of Education and Merit, supporting schools in achieving the objectives of the 2030 Agenda and Italy’s National Strategy for Sustainable Development: https://www.istruzione.it/ri-generazione-scuola

For further information, the Class Recycling Coordination Centre can be reached on toll-free number 800 33 32 89 (within Italy) from Monday to Friday, 9:00–13:00 and 14:00–18:00.