Teachers

Measure the impact of your waste campaign

Discover more about how we as a society define waste, and how we process it.

This information pack offers the pros and cons of the plastic industry.

Students can use this take home sheet to keep to the 3Rs: reduce, reuse and recycle.

Challenge your pupils to find 10 plastic waste facts in the school using clues.

Help everyone understand the impact plastic has on the environment.

Share your actions for Waste Week with your wider community.

Use this poster to promote your plastic free week.

A visually engaging poster to encourage everyone to reduce plastic waste

Trace the lifecycle of a plastic bottle with this poster.

Reward your students for their activities during Waste Week

Display this poster to let everyone know when you're running your Waste Week

Display this handy poster to let everyone know when your school is taking part in Waste Week.

Let everyone know your school has taken part in Waste Week 2019.

Create and test parachutes with a variation of different materials

This maths activity is all about how much food packaging we throw away in our homes and the importance of recycling.

In this D&T activity, students examine the properties, design criteria and manufacture of packaging for three everyday food items, and investigate whether they could be improved.