Lessons from the Bay : Project Action Guide : Part 3: Projects

Precycling to Prevent Environmental Clutter
 
 


Precycling is concerned with a person’s thinking before buying. It involves making environmentally responsible choices among different products. Sometimes it means deciding to buy nothing. Recycling is doing something with trash; precycling reduces the amount of trash produced in the first place.

Goals

  • To help students understand the meaning and importance of precycling
     
  • To provide students with an organized experience that involves precycling choices and behavior

Materials
Materials depend on the nature of the project. Surveys would require little more than a means for recording data and a means for analyzing it. Promotion could involve pencil and paper, a computer, a camera (digital, perhaps), and other material for communicating to a widespread audience. If students are to create a product, the materials would be unique to that product.


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Precycling to Prevent Environmental Clutter” includes:
 · Directions
 · Resources for Precycling Projects

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