See below for a wide range of resources to support your work.
Waste less and recycle more
Resources in this section are designed to help senior leadership teams, eco-coordinators and teachers reduce waste and recycle more in schools.
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Waste in the Classroom
Resources in this section are designed to help teachers engage students in the topic of waste, recycling and the circular economy.
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Waste reduction and recycling
Paper and card waste
Electronic and electrical waste
Food waste
Waste and Recycling Services for West Sussex Schools
West Sussex district and borough councils may be able to provide waste and recycling collection services and other support.
- Adur and Worthing: Tel: 01273 263050 / Email: commercialwaste@adur-worthing.gov.uk
- Arun: Email: cleansing@arun.gov.uk
- Chichester: Tel: 01243 534617 / Email: wasteandrecycling@chichester.gov.uk
- Crawley: Tel: 01293 438772
- Horsham: Tel: 01403 739391 / Email: businesswaste@horsham.gov.uk
- Mid-Sussex District Council: Tel: 01444 477440 / Email: wastematters@midsussex.gov.uk
Schools are also free to use commercially available services, Duty of Care obligations apply.
The West Sussex Eco-Directory
Here you will find helpful links to environmental groups, campaigns, activities, and opportunities in West Sussex for schools and young people:
The Youth Eco Forum is a safe and friendly place where they can discuss worries, hopes and share ideas and actions.
Helping to protect the rich natural heritage of East and West Sussex, and Brighton and Hove.
The Duke of Edinburgh programme helps young people gain essential skills and attributes for work and life.
West Sussex County Council gives information about recycling sites, reducing your waste, what to recycle and what happens to it.
Watch and get inspired
Greta Thunberg and Sir David Attenborough
When Greta Thunberg met Sir David Attenborough
What is Climate change?
Sir David Attenborough gives the facts of climate change in 4 minutes
What is the problem with climate change?
Find out how the rise in global temperatures is impacting people.
Chad Frischmann: 100 solutions to reverse global warming
What if we took out more greenhouse gases than we put into the atmosphere?
Axel Reinaud: How biochar removes CO2 from the air -- and helps farmers thrive
Biochar is a kind of charcoal that removes CO2 from the atmosphere, helping yield healthy crops and even producing abundant renewable energy in the form of electricity as it's made.
Al Gore: How to make radical climate action the new normal
A net-zero future is possible, but first we need to flip a mental switch to truly understand that we can stop the climate crisis if we try, says Nobel laureate Al Gore.
Al Gore: The case for optimism on climate change
In this spirited talk, Gore asks three powerful questions about the man-made forces threatening to destroy our planet -- and the solutions we're designing to combat them.
Bill Gates: The innovations we need to avoid a climate disaster
The single most important thing for avoiding a climate disaster is cutting carbon pollution from the current 51 billion tons per year to zero.
Project Drawdown
Hear from Project Drawdown, one of the ‘World’s Leading Resources for Climate Solutions’.