About the Program

What is ‘The Recycling Project’

The Recycling Project transforms waste that can’t be composted or reliably recycled into functional products and artworks—while delivering accessible recycling education for schools, municipalities, and communities. 

What began as a passion project has evolved into a scalable platform supporting Canada’s circular economy: reducing waste, empowering people, and proving that what we discard can become both useful and unforgettable. 

About the Classes

At the heart of The Recycling Project is our signature program: Trash Truths & Dump Myths. These classes cut through the confusion of recycling and landfill systems with clear, engaging, and practical education.

Each module blends research, visuals, and interactive activities designed for students, teachers, and lifelong learners. From debunking common recycling myths to exploring creative reuse, the program makes sustainability both understandable and empowering. Although The Recycling Project has a strong art side to it these classes are not focused around art, but each class does come with an optional small craft assignment to enrich the understanding of the content.

The classes are available for schools, municipalities, and community groups, and can be delivered as standalone modules or a full series. Every lesson is designed to spark action, shift perspectives, and give people tools they can use immediately in their own lives and communities.

Designed for learners from grade 8 through post secondary and beyond, each class includes a sensitivity classification listed within its curriculum mapping sheep and overview to ensure age-appropriate delivery and discussion.

The program has been reviewed and endorsed by Rhett Rielkoff, Manager for the School of Environment and Sustainability at Royal Roads University, who praised the curriculum’s organization and educational value. 

Find an Overview of all Modules and you can watch a sample Action Series Module 3

Why settle for “recycling education” when you can teach real-world impact?

The Recycling Project curriculum goes beyond the bins and buzzwords. We don’t just tell people what to recycle - we explore why our systems are broken, how they got that way, and what we can do about it right now.

These lessons blend history, psychology, and creativity to reveal the true story of human waste - from how landfills evolved to why greenwashing keeps us complacent. We expose the myths that make people feel powerless and replace them with practical, immediate actions that make a real and measurable difference.

Our approach reconnects people to the why behind sustainability - because when people understand the truth, they stop tuning out and start showing up.

Every module is fully licensable and classroom-ready - complete with videos, worksheets, and craft-based projects that turn theory into tangible learning. Teachers can simply press play, pass out materials, and watch their students connect with sustainability in a way that’s real, relevant, and lasting.

This is more than a recycling lesson. It’s a call to reimagine our relationship with waste - and the time to act is now. We can’t afford to wait for perfect solutions or future generations to fix it for us. Change begins with how we think, how we teach, and what we choose to value today.

Let’s stop teaching people to recycle — and start teaching them to reimagine.