Litter & Waste
Litter & Waste
Litter & Waste covers actions on litter, dog fouling, flytipping, and graffiti, as well as waste minimisation actions such as recycling and composting. We require evidence from one litter pick or survey as part of your Green Flag application.
The Litter & Waste Topic has natural overlap with all other topics.
Our campaign which brings together people from across Scotland to tackle litter.
Lessons and classroom activities to support your work on the Litter & Waste Topic.
Resources
Create a comic strip about the story of a plastic bottle, a marine animal or anything else!
Experiences and Outcomes related to the Eco-Schools Litter & Waste Topic.
How long does it really take litter to degrade? Find out with this experiment.
Rachel from The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland explains how to build your very own wormery.
Learn about how paper is made by making your own recycled paper in this practical activity.
See if you can find an item of litter for every letter of the alphabet. Look carefully!
An activity to convert data to a graph to make it easily understood by anyone who sees it.
Doug hosted a series of live lessons on our YouTube channel to share his experiences and talk about his work to spread the word about the issue of marine litter.
Interactive lessons and classroom resources all about sustainable living.
A PowerPoint presentation about the issue of Roadside Litter for Upper Primary.
Dèan sgrùdadh sgudail fhad ’s a tha sibh a’ togail sgudail gus ionnsachadh dè seòrsa trioblaid a th’ agaibh agus gus ur cuideachadh le bhith a’ cumail sùil air an t-suidheachadh.
Infographics from Scottish Government and Zero Waste Scotland on single use plastic
Welsh author Tracey Corderoy reads her book ‘It’s Only One’ and leads a conversation about becoming an author. Tracey appears courtesy of the Scottish Book Trust.
Acclaimed author and naturalist Sarah Roberts reads her book ‘Somebody Swallowed Stanley’, and inspires us all to act on plastic pollution.
Look into the concept of manufactured design, and how a marketing decision helped make single use plastic popular.
Our planet is drowning in plastic pollution—it's time for change!
A series of lessons and resources covering the use of poetry and community action to tackle waste, as well as looking specifically at what happens to soft plastic waste and how we can look after our digital footprints.
Chuala a’ mhòr-chuid againn mu Lùghdaich, Ath-chleachdadh agus Ath-chuartachadh, ach cò ris a tha seo coltach a thaobh nan rudan a chleachdas sinn gach latha? Thig còmhla ruinn gus a' dol air turas eadar-ghnìomhaich le pacaid bhrisg gus fhaicinn de thachras agus ciamar a ’s urrainn dhuinn sgeulachd innse a tha nas coibhneile ris ar n-àrainneachd, a gabhail a-steach saidheans agus matamataig.
These Live Lessons focus on Loch Long and the Arrochar community in Argyll and Bute. An area of incredible natural beauty, which also sees around 62,000 items of marine litter every year. How is this possible? And what can we do to help?
A series of lessons and resources exploring how we can tackle different types of waste in school, including commonly littered items and canteen waste with inspiration from author Tracery Corderoy's book ‘It’s Only One’ .
A series of lessons and resources exploring the concept of spring cleaning, how litter affects wildlife and the right to play and how we can use Reduce, Reuse, Recycle to help.
A lesson focusing on litter, including how it affects animals, how we used to live with less waste and what we can do to help.
Lesson exploring how the Paws on Plastic community has removed over 30 million pieces of litter each year through simple, positive action with a follow up litter picking challenge resource and Eco-Schools Action Plan
Acclaimed author and naturalist Sarah Roberts reads her book ‘Somebody Swallowed Stanley’, inspiring us to act on plastic pollution with a follow up plastic pollution game.
Lesson and resources covering why plastic pollution has become such a problem, including author Isabel Thomas discussion plastic bottle pollution with follow up resources to create a comic strip and video campaign.
Lesson on how plastic has become so universal and what we can do about plastic pollution with follow up activities to learn more about the history of plastic and bottled water.
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