How Dumpster Divers Became Sustainable Heroes
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Grades6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12Economics
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What it is
- This video from NowThis Earth explains the role of dumpster diving in ensuring sustainability, reducing waste, and effecting change.
- Students learn about wastage within the retail system, campaigns around dumpster diving, and how they can effect change.
Teaching tips
Positives
- Engaging visuals accompany this video.
- The video demonstrates the wastage happening in the retail system in America.
- This video provides information on ways to foster sustainability and prevent wastage.
Prerequisites
- Students should be familiar with dumpster diving.
- The video does have bleeped curse words at 10:48-10:51.
Differentiation & Implementation
- Teachers can use this video as an invitation for students to look at their own wasteful habits and to think of sustainable solutions.
- Teachers can use the section from 6:37-7:05 to discuss the practice of damaging out and its classist and wasteful implications.
- Teachers can use this video to open up a discussion about the retail system in the United States and its merits and mistakes.
- Click here for an article on food waste and climate change.
- Click here for an StC lesson plan on food waste.
From the scientist review
The resource explores ways to improve sustainability and food security by reducing food wastage from retail stores in the USA. The dumpster technique has a clear veracity for replication. Thus, this resource is recommended for teaching.
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