April 21, 2019
Get drastic with your plastic
Here are five easy ways you can reduce how much single-use plastic you use.
February 3, 2019
Plastic Free Oceans – as you sow
Big corporations that use billions of tonnes of single-use plastic a year globally are a BIG part of the single-use plastic disaster, but as this video shows, when shareholders demand…
January 1, 2019
A Plastic Ocean Assembly for KS3 – ppt file
A Powerpoint presentation made by students of Haydon Eco Club. The students created and used this as part of their KS2 / KS3 Transition Project. For more information about the…
Haydon School Eco Club
Karen Norton and her students ran an amazing project with her Eco Club that not only raised awareness and understanding of the issues associated with single-use plastic, it also helped ease student's transition from Primary to Secondary.
Karen has kindly written up the project as a case study so that other schools can learn from their experiences and possibly run their own Kids Against Plastic transition initiative. Use this link or the Download button to to view the case study write up.
There is also a ready-made Powerpoint file (as shown in the image above) that students can use as a guide for their own presentations.
https://www.kidsagainstplastic.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Kids-Against-Plastic-Case-Study-V1.pdf
November 2, 2018
The Story of Microfibres
Learn about the hidden horror that are man-made material microfibres - tiny pieces of plastic clothing fibres that get washed out of our clothes, and into our waterways, each time we wash…
November 2, 2018
Laundry ball that catches nasty microfibres
'Cora Ball' was inspired by corals that filter ocean water. This laundry ball will help capture microfibres when you do your laundry. It can even pick up hair. This nature-inspired…
October 7, 2018
12,000 tons of rubbish collected from an Indian beach
Volunteers have removed an astonishing 12 million kilograms (nearly 12,000 tons) of plastic from a short stretch of a Mumbai beach. But their efforts will be in vain unless the…
September 8, 2018
School Uniforms made from plastic bottles
David Luke make Eco school uniforms from plastic bottles, turning waste into up cycled stylish and practical clothing. This film shows how they now have the ability to make sweatshirts, cardigans,…
September 7, 2018
Reusable water bottles with built-in filtration
Could reusable water bottles with built-in purification filters offer more than just a travel solution? Would their use reduce the number of plastic bottles sold and littered? Find out more…