Teaching recycling to students: 4 ideas for classroom lessons

Teaching Sustainable Waste Management to Young Generations

How can we help teach our younger generations the benefits and how-to's of sustainable waste management? Here are our methods that can help make a visible change:

Emphasize the 3 R's

It becomes easy to show children what they can do to help by introducing them to the 3 R's (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle) of the Waste Hierarchy.

Use Colorful Visual Aids

One of the best ways to excite kids about the prospect of recycling is to offer them beautiful, colorful recycling bins and posters. By offering posters as educational materials too, we make it easier for schools and kindergartens to effectively and enthusiastically teach their students about what goes into each waste stream.

Build a Worm Farm

To work with your organics recycling bin, create a worm farm outside using soil and other materials which will in turn show students how their food waste is transformed into compost.

Leverage Engaging Videos

Video can be the most captivating format to utilize for a younger audience - short, eye-catching clips to educate and capture their interest. The concepts of waste streams, the Waste Hierarchy, and the growing amount of plastic in our landfills and oceans can be explained through the use of YouTube clips.