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Litterless Lunch

Litterless Lunch

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Reducing lunchtime waste.

Introduction

According to Natural Resources Canada, the average North American will produce 600 times their own weight in garbage over their lifetime. A 68kg person will leave behind a 40,825 trash legacy. By altering daily practices, such how an individual packs their lunch for school or work, a significant amount of waste can be prevented from entering the landfill.

Objectives

Students will be able to: 

  • Identify the waste that they are personally responsible for. 
  • Identify the collective amount of waste produced by their school’s students and staff. 
  • Establish goals for waste reduction within their classroom and for the entire school. 
  • Engage with their own families and their community about packing a litter free lunch and help to create easy and effective waste reduction strategies for their classroom and home.

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Other Resources

Science World School Programs: Envirochallenge
Our World Gallery at TELUS World of Science

Metro Vancouver
Waste Reduction Week Canada
Recycling Council of British Columbia
Rockridge Environmental Club, Winners of the BC Green Games
North Shore Recycling Program

 

Comments (2)
Language and Science
2 Tuesday, 09 February 2010 17:34
Erin Jewitt
AWESOME!
litterless lunches
1 Wednesday, 30 September 2009 15:45
Andrea Skinner
We are going to use this for a school-wide litterless lunch week.

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