Know your Waste Education Programme

The WDC Know your Waste education programme educates on sustainability and zero waste

This is an ideal half day camp activity which can be carried on in the class room

About CBEC EcoSolutions

The purpose of our education is to empower students to be actively involved in developing a sustainable future for New Zealand.

EcoSolutions uses a variety of education methods to instill in students a love for the environment and an awareness of how they can protect it.

The waste management topics we teach

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  The 6’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair, Rethink, Refuse

• E-waste
• A Plastic Ocean
• Composting and worm farming
• Sustainable Packaging and litterless lunches
• The world of recycling
• Litter and pollution of waterways
• Upcycling
• Water conservation

We create learning situations selecting from the teaching strategies of

Investigation

e.g. around school waste issues, packaging in lunchboxes

Inquiry

e.g. data collection of litter on or near school grounds

Knowledge building

e.g. demonstrations, visits to resource recovery centres

Interactive learning

e.g. school garden, compost building, worm farms, following inquiry and investigative work

For more information on our education programmes, please visit – http://www.ecosolutions.org.nz/environmental-education.html