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ZERO WASTE CHALLENGE
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ZERO WASTE CHALLENGE

 Teachers

Three Zero Waste Challenges!

We've made three challenges. So each year you can look at another source of waste and level up! You can also repeat a challenge if you want to dive deeper. 
Challenge 1: Single-Use Plastics
Challenge 2: Food Waste
Challenge 3: Clothing
Accommodated: Single-Use
​Modified: Single-Use

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Emails to families
Accommodated: Food Waste
Modified: Food Waste

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Emails to families
Accommodated
​Modified: Clothing

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Emails to families
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 Supplies

Find alternatives to common classroom supplies. 
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Class Culture

Set up a classroom culture that values resources and is striving towards Zero Waste.
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Curriculum

Use curriculum that helps your students understand the issues. Below are additional resources.

Learn More

Websites about Waste
  • Plastic Pollution Coalition
  • 5 Gyres
  • Story of Stuff - check out Story of Plastic Water Bottles and Story of Microbeads
  • The Last Plastic Straw - mark the fourth Friday as Skip the Straw Day - get your kids involved​
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Zero Waste Websites
  • My Plastic-Free Life
  • Zero Waste Lunches
  • Zero Waste Home
Books
  • Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and You Can Too - Beth Terry
  • Zero Waste Home - Bea Johnson
  • The Zero Waste Solution: Untrashing the Planet One Community at a Time - Paul Connett 
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