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Mr. Harry Barnes
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what steps he is taking to encourage the recycling of paper; and what advice is given to schools and colleges on this.
Mr. Butcher
The statutory attainment targets for science in the national curriculum include a requirement for children to know that some waste materials can be recycled. The recycling of paper, and the use of recycled paper, by educational institutions is a matter for them and, as appropriate, their maintaining LEAs. I hope they will consider the matter sympathetically. The Department is currently considering the use of recycled paper for its own purposes.