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Reduce t
o Zero
a FREE global zero waste education program with the
aim to educate

1 million people
by 2030

19 free lesson plans and workshops

for K-12 and university level students

Educating on Building the Circular Creating Zero

Recycling Economy Waste
Fundamentals
LEVEL 1 LEVEL 5
(Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 2)

Beginner Lesson: "Introduction to Recycling"

LEVEL 3
(Grades 6-8)
(Grades 11-12)

Beginner Lesson: "Circular Case Study"

This lesson will cover the basics of recycling, why it is
important, and how to do it.
Intermediate Lesson: "What can you recycle?"
Beginner Lesson: "Waste leakage in the
environment"
This lesson will cover the basic knowledge of recycling
and the negative effects on the environment without
recycling best practices.
This lesson will cover the basics of recycling, why it is
important, and how to do it.
Intermediate Lesson: "Redesign for Circularity"

This lesson will cover the basics of recycling, why it is
important, and how to do it.
Advanced Lesson: "Find it, Recycle it"
This lesson will cover how to identify #1 PET plastic
bottles, the most recycled plastic, and how to
properly recycle the material.
Intermediate Lesson: "A waste hero's story" This lesson will cover the basics of recycling, why it is
important, and how to do it.
This lesson will cover the basic knowledge of recycling
and the negativeeffects on the environment without
recycling best practices and create a"waste hero" story
to encourage others to take action against waste in our Advanced Lesson: "Circular Business Model Canvas"
environment.
This lesson will cover how to identify #1 PET plastic
bottles, the most recycled plastic, and how to
Advanced Lesson: "My waste audit"
properly recycle the material.
Students will consider how much waste they personally
and as a class generate each day, and the portion that is
recyclable and non-recyclable by conducting a "waste

LEVEL 2
audit" at home.

LEVEL 6
LEVEL 4
(Grades 3-5)

Beginner Lesson: "Recyclable, Non-recyclables, and (Universities and Youth Clubs)

Potential Recyclables"
This lesson will cover the recycling process and how
improperly recycled items can cause problems or
contaminate other recyclables.
Intermediate Lesson: "Where does your recycling
go?"
This lesson will cover what a landfill is and where
waste can end up if not properly managed.
Advanced Lesson: "What can you make from
recycling?"
This lesson will cover the deepen understanding of
how recycling benefits the environment by identifying
new everyday products made from recycled materials.
(Grades 9-10)
Beginner Lesson: "Linear vs Circular Life Cycle"
This lesson will cover the the differences between
the linear and circular economies and how products
and materials move through a life cycle.
Intermediate Lesson: "Creating the Circular
Economy"
This lesson will cover 5 different types of circular
economy business models and identify how these
models practice the 3 principles of the circular
economy.
Advanced Lesson: "Circular Design Challenge"
This lesson will cover the linear vs circular economy
and how to build circular solutions using design
thinking for linear products.
Workshop 1: "Problem and Solution Tree"
Providing guidance on how to frame problems and
solutions using practical and user-friendly tools to
help solve complex and interconnected problems.
Workshop 2: "Mind Mapping"
Exploring how students can use mapping toolsto
identify key opportunities or solution pathways to
problems and visualize the complexity and
interconnectedness of them.
Workshop 3: "Circular Business Model Canvas"
Helping students aply a circular deisign strategy to
solve a linear business model problem.
Workshop 4: "Solving for the SDGs"
Analyzing the indivisible whole of the UN Sustainable
Development Goals.