National Recycling Week - Exploring Australia's New Recycling Labels

This lesson is designed to help your students dig deep into the new recycling labelling system, the Australasian Recycling Label (ARL) scheme, and share this knowledge with others. Student learning from this lesson will be enhanced by having completed the flipped classroom lesson prior to starting this lesson.

In this lesson, students explore solutions to waste problems in their school or home. They begin by exploring their prior knowledge on sustainability (Years 7 & 8) or life cycle thinking (Years 9 & 10), before reviewing learning from the previous lesson. Students are then introduced to the waste hierarchy and analyse several organisations and schemes addressing waste and place them on the waste hierarchy. Students then work collaboratively to identify a waste problem in their school or home and develop a solution to this problem. Students create a pitch to share their ideas with the class.