Take action on litter and waste in your school and local community and join thousands of other around the globe in the Litter Less Mini-Campaign this month! From today October 18th – 12th November.

Take up the challenge of living a full day of your life without creating any waste that is disposed to a landfill or burned. You will surely find out that it is not an easy task! Nevertheless, this exercise will help you understand how human lifestyle was adapted to consume resources unsustainably, but at the same time how easily we can re-adapt our lives, so we get more out of the resources we consume while preserving nature. 

You can use these five Rs to help you out:

• Refuse what you don’t need such as plastics and ‘free stuff’

• Reduce what you are purchasing (Including packaging)

• Reuse and repair what you already have or buy 2nd -hand

• Recycle any waste that really can’t help producing 

• Rot any organic waste you produce in a compost bin

Find out more information on the Green-Schools website at greenschoolsireland.org