‘Waste Wise Kids’ is a not-for-profit organisation, founded by Encore Environment in August 2019. The school’s programme has been designed to teach children aged 4-12 years old about waste, recycling and sustainability. Taught within the classroom by one of our experts or by the teacher, it focuses on educating children about the waste hierarchy and its impact on the environment in a fun, easy to understand way. This includes an on-site presentation with teachers notes, repurposing tasks, competitions, rewards chart and recycled handouts.

Our environment’s future lies in little hands

It is incredibly important for us to teach our children from a young age about recycling and sustainability, and the huge role that plays on our future. We are engaging with primary schools, trusts, businesses, individuals, and influencers that are passionate about environmental education and want to support young people learning about waste and sustainability. One of the objectives is for environmental literacy to be integrated more in the curriculum, rather than being an add-on to other subjects. During its pilot phase, we have had a fantastic response and 1000 school children are now Waste Wise Kids!

Education is key to solving the waste crisis

Waste Wise Kids is addressing a need to help support primary schools teach young children the fundamental waste hierarchy approach. The students learn that landfill is not a sustainable solution and the more items end up in landfill the worse it is for the environment. Each week there are new worrying statistics on the increasing amount of waste we are creating and its damaging effects on the planet.