The Water Works! Project, which launches next month, is aimed at 14- to 19-year-olds. Groups of 15 young people will use a canal barge, the Roger, to transfer paper from Marks & Spencer's headquarters in London's Paddington to Apsley, Hertfordshire, where it will be recycled by charity Paper Trail.
The programme aims to promote practical skills and direct young people into engineering Apprenticeships, as well as promoting social inclusion.
The young people will load and unload the boat, steer and crew and arrange schedules.
Steve Dazeel, director of Rickmansworth Waterways Trust, said: "The young people will be drawn mainly from Hertfordshire but we are also looking to get kids out from London."
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