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WHAT IS PLASTIC FREE CAMPUS?

Plastic Free Campus, PFC is dedicated to helping schools fight single-use plastic pollution worldwide. PFC helps schools make a difference for the environment, social justice and our own health.

WHY?

  • Plastic pollution is a real issue – just look around
  • Plastics are made from oil and gas and their production harms our environment from added greenhouse gases.
  • Nature can’t digest it, Plastics break UP into smaller pieces called micro-plastics.  It never breaks down.
  • Plastics affect millions of sea and land creatures who are injured or killed eating them.
  • Plastics are now found everywhere: in our food, drink, in nature and all over the planet.
  • Plastic food and drink packaging often contain harmful chemical additives that affect human health.

Therefore, we need to kick the plastics habit.

HOW?

  • Enabling schools and communities to make a meaningful environmental impact
  • Inspiring students to adopt sustainable values within their own live
  • Empowering them throughout the art of negotiation and self-guided research.

 

THE PLASTIC FREE CAMPUS PROGRAMME WILL:
  • Empower me and others to make change
  • Help me organise teams to create a movement
  • Teach me negotiation techniques and the power of persuasion
  • Ask me to investigate existing local waste management systems
  • Lead me to create community awareness of the plastic pollution issue
  • Inspire behavioural changes at my school, home and community
  • See the How to Get Started Video: https://youtu.be/3qQG0LhPOS8
THE PLASTIC FREE CAMPUS PROGRAMME WILL:
  • Encourage discussion at home on how and why to reduce reliance on plastics
  • Provide my children to develop key life skills; teamwork, organisation, communication, negotiation and project management
  • Allow parents to follow progress as observers - request a link from the school faculty advisor
  • What do the Faculty and Students say? Watch: https://youtu.be/HKCBi9n-GAg
THE PLASTIC FREE CAMPUS PROGRAMME WILL:
  • Provide students the chance to develop key life skills; teamwork, organisation, communication, negotiation and project management
  • Improve curriculum links to integrate the issue of plastic pollution and waste management into the classroom
  • Provide resources and tools to conduct community and locally-focused projects
  • Help schools better apply the values reflected in school policy
  • See the How to Get Started Video: https://youtu.be/Vh0BWAYjI3w
THE PLASTIC FREE CAMPUS PROGRAMME PROVIDES:
  • An active hands-on learning opportunity
  • Measurable results – baseline metrics at the start and quantified results at the end
  • Individual, family, school and community engagement
  • Sharing lessons learned here and from others around the world
THE PLASTIC FREE CAMPUS PROGRAMME PROVIDES:
  • An active hands-on learning opportunity
  • Measurable results – baseline metrics at the start and quantified results at the end
  • Individual, family, school and community engagement
  • Sharing lessons learned here and from others around the world
THE PLASTIC FREE CAMPUS PROGRAMME PROVIDES:
  • An active hands-on learning opportunity
  • Measurable results – baseline metrics at the start and quantified results at the end
  • Individual, family, school and community engagement
  • Sharing lessons learned here and from others around the world
Who Is In?
Join Us
Are you ready to make a difference in your school ? If so, here are the three steps to starting the Plastic Free Campus journey:
Read and understand what is required – see MODULES
Register your school – you will need an Administration or Faculty sponsor