An education centre is being opened within a recycling facility - in an attempt to teach children about how waste is re-used.
This project, claimed as the first of its kind in Britain, is inviting primary classes to visit a classroom in a plant that recycles office rubbish.
The waste, from the Co-operative group's offices in Manchester, is recycled into new products.
The rubbish includes paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, cups, cans and CDs.
The recycling education project, Waste Works, is expecting to have visits from 12,000 children each year.
They will see the process of how office waste arrives at the recycling plant and then machines use the rubbish as raw material for re-usable items.
Barbara Porter, head of St Joseph's primary in Longsight - one of the first schools to visit the Manchester centre - said that it would help pupils to "see for themselves what happens to the rubbish they throw away at school".
The Co-operative group's director of corporate affairs, Simon Williams, said the recycling project would help children to study issues such as the environment and climate change.
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