- Wednesday 04 November 2020
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National Recycling Week is only a few days away! Planet Ark’s initiative is now in its 25th year, with the theme for 2020 ‘Recovery – A future beyond the bin’.
Did you know that, according to WWF, ‘in 2017–18 we used some 3.4 million tonnes of plastics in Australia’? Of that, just 9.4%—320 000 tonnes—was recycled.
This is a great opportunity to get kids interested and participating in different activities to learn how they can live more sustainably, create less waste and help save the planet.
To help, we’ve pulled together some of our favourite recycling ideas that all ages can enjoy and get involved with:
- For people in Queensland and Western Australia, the Containers for Change program is a fantastic way for students to raise some money which could perhaps be donated or invested in a class project.
- Planet Ark has some amazing prizes on offer as part of their Schools Recycle Right Challenge.
- To help students understand how much plastic and other packaging is used every day—a lot of the time unnecessarily—holding a ‘waste-free lunch’.
- Watch War on waste then discuss as a class a project you could work on—this could be filmed and turned into a mini-documentary.
- With World Kindness Day falling on the final day of National Recycling Week (Friday 13 November), students could use scrap and leftover craft materials to make cards for each other, or create a class display from recycled materials about how we can work together to save the planet.
- Help students learn about some of the significant environmental campaigns in Australia’s history and how they came to be, with these activities from Australian Curriculum History:
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- Check out Fun recycling ideas for effective ways you can implement recycling in your classroom or home. (This one includes a free digital resource pack to download!)