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Target Contamination
Conduct a waste audit and identify target items to reduce contamination. Approximately one-third of all recycling ends up in landfill due to contamination.
Show Off Your Audit
Have you done something to be proud of? Celebrate and motivate your school through a visual display of waste minimization results.
Celebrate Gold
There are many creative ways to highlight your school’s eco-achievements. One winning idea in waste minimization is to paint an object gold and award it to those who’ve made exceptional efforts.
Compost, Compost
Composting helps reduce food scraps in the landfill and CO2. There are many ways your school can begin to introduce composting.
Share What Goes Where
Make waste reduction a visible part of your school community. Create clear and colourful signage to let students know what to put where and help build everyday habits.
Waste Reduction Week
Celebrate Waste Reduction Week and follow it up with action plans that ‘upcycle’ items that are not recyclable.
Computer Monitor Monsters
Made out of pompoms and googly eyes, these friendly monsters can be left in libraries and computer labs to remind users to turn off monitors when they leave.
The Energy Hog
Many schools use Energy Hogs as playful reminders to classrooms when their lights and devices have been left on.
Energy EcoTrackers
Enlist both students and adults in school-wide energy-consumption monitoring.