Education Links

Educating for sustainability can be broadly categorised into studying 4 main areas: energy, water, biodiversity and waste.  The education links provided have a focus on waste issues, in line with Tasmanian EPA priorities for promoting the sustainable use of resources.

• A Teaching Resource on Waste Issues

Early years

• Kindergarten lessons on waste and decomposition
• Lesson plans on waste for kinder students
• How to run a swap meet in kinder
• Book: Bethel, E (2008) Michael Recycle, Koala Books, Mascot, NSW Australia
• Book: Bethel, E (2009) Litterbug Doug – A Michael Recycle Adventure, Koala Books, Mascot, NSW Australia

Food waste

Please note: These videos are hosted by YouTube, the EPA does not take responsibility for the content of the videos

• Video for children about composting  Source: YouTube
• Video about how to compost scraps Source: YouTube

Paper waste

• A social justice game using waste newspaper

Plastic waste

• Book: Package it Better: Primary Connections 8 Lesson module
• Organising a rubbish free lunch
• Article: Bottled water is more energy intensive than tap water
• Lessons on drink container rubbish
• Program to reduce water bottle use in Asia
• How plastic affects wildlife
• Article: How Australian waters are polluted by harmful tiny plastics

Fashion waste

• A mountain of waste clothing
• Article: Can we have green fashion?
• Statistics on cotton
• How to reduce, re-use and recycle textile waste
• Environmental impacts of the textile industry in Bangladesh
• How to host a swap meet
• Teaching unit - The changing nature of the world - mobile phones
• Article: The rise of mending and repairing clothes

Electrical and Electronic waste

• Mobile phone re-use debate
• Waste Fact Sheets
• The Secret Life of Mobile Phones
• Collaborative Consumption
• Case study: Mobile phones, coltan and the mountain gorilla