Litter and Recycling
Clean Up Australia
Department of Environment and Resource Management
Impacts of Litter factsheet.
Create your own Eden teacher resources
Includes great learning activities including waste auditing and waste timelines showing how long it takes different types of waste and litter to break down.
Clean up the river
Curriculum based interactive recycling game for primary school school students, easy for teachers, fun for students, free.
Global Marine Litter Information Gateway
United Nations Environment Program- Kids Against Marine Litter global resources and links for kids to learn more and be part of the solution when it comes to marine litter.
QLD Litter Prevention Alliance
The QLPA website includes resources and information about litter in Queensland.
Buttfree Australia
Butt Free Australia is an environmental product stewardship organisation that focuses on cigarette butt litter and the impact that is has on the environment.
Victorian Litter Action Alliance
VLAA have lots of information and resources regarding the issues and prevention of litter.
Marine Debris
Keep Oceans Clean
Play the Keep Oceans Clean online marine debris game, learn about marine debris, and win a cool desktop background image! This website also has other games, information and great links for parents and teachers.
Kure Waste Chase
Join in the effort to remove marine debris from the beautiful Northwestern Hawaiian Islands!
Marine Menace
Students will learn and develop an understanding of marine debris, what it is, where it comes from and what they can do to combat the problem. Developed by Clean Up Australia.
Ocean Care Marine Debris Education Kit
Hands on activity with before, during and after exercises that can be differentiated to suit the interests and developmental levels of individual classes, aimed at students from year’s seven to nine. There is some potential for cross-learning area integration.
Global Education
Taking plastic soup off the Pacific Ocean menu. As one of the teams of experts you have been invited to discuss the impact of plastics on the food security, culture and economy of people living in Pacific Island countries. From your research you will recommend a program to address your findings for people who use plastics.
Turning the tide on trash – A learning guide on marine debris
Originally developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, this set of lesson plans and background information introduces educators, students and researchers to the topic of marine debris. The interdisciplinary education guide is designed to provide maximum flexibility in the classroom: it can be used as a stand-alone teaching tool or to supplement work in other subject areas. Appropriate for Grades 1 through 12.
Understanding Marine Debris: Games and Activities for Kids of All Ages
An assortment of puzzles, brain-teasers and coloring activities help children understand the problem of marine debris while having fun at the same time, suitable for all ages.
More teacher’s links
A collated links of useful links for teachers about marine and ocean pollution.
Algalita Marine Research Foundation
Charles Moores research and education organisation focusing on marine debris.
5 Gyres
Together with partners, Pangaea Explorations and Algalita Marine Research Foundation, 5 gyres organise research expeditions to the 5 sub-tropical gyres, inviting scientists, journalists and other sailors to join the crew.
The Great Garbage Patch
Think beyond plactis, learn more about plastic pollution.
Plastic Pollution Coalition
Plastic Pollution Coalition provides a platform for strategic planning and coherent communications; increases awareness and understanding of the problem and sustainable solutions; and empowers action to eliminate the negative impacts of plastics on the environment, wildlife, marine life, and human health.
ReefED
Reef HQ Program, includes information about marine debris and its impact on the Great Barrier Reef.
The Plastiki
Discover more about The Plastiki, a boat made of 12, 000 plastic bottles travelling the world to raise awareness about the issues of waste and plastics in our oceans.
Surfrider Foundation
Find out what the surfrider foundation is doing to combat the issue of marine debris.
The Friendly Floatees’ World Tour
On January 10 1992, a container holding almost 29,000 plastic bath toys spills off a cargo ship into the middle of the Pacific Ocean and breaks open. The unsinkable toys, which were en route from Hong Kong to Tacoma (Washington), include a lot of iconic yellow rubber ducks that have since been caught up in the world’s ocean currents and continue turning up on the most improbable shores.
Ocean Care Tangaroa Blue Program
Tangaroa Blue Ocean Care Society was created to help protect our oceans from marine debris. Website includes general information publications, marine debris datasheets and reports.
Pelican and Seabird Rescue
Pelican and Seabird Rescue Inc. (PASR) are a non-profit, volunteer organisation committed to the rescue and rehabilitation of injured, sick and orphaned birds.
Australian Platypus Conservancy
Find out about the impact of litter and fishing on Australia’s iconic species the platypus.