Plastic Waste

Click through the interactive guide below which provides a step by step guide to minimising plastic waste in your school. It provides information on how to carry out a plastic waste audit, as well as how to develop a plastic waste reduction action plan.

Plastic Waste Audit

The plastic waste audit will benchmark where you are starting from, identify the areas in school that generate plastic waste and indicate how much waste you are generating. You can then work with the school community to create an action plan to reduce waste and run future audits to monitor your progress. Downloadable worksheets are provided to support your school plastic waste audit.

Plastic Waste Action Plan

Once you have undertaken your plastic waste audit, you can develop an action plan to start to reduce waste. Pupils, in cooperation with teachers, parents and school staff, will be equiped to develop an action plan, consisting of practical steps leading to the reduction of the amount of plastic waste created in the school. The school will continuously evaluate the implementation of the plan, by linking back to your regular plastic waste audits. Downloadable worksheets are provided to support your school plastic waste action plan.

Interactive guide

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