Milly Zantow: Recycling Revolutionary

• This resource explores how Milly Zantow started a global movement to recycle plastics, what motivated her to start this movement, and what challenges she faced in the movement's early phases.
• The resource includes a digital book with audio, a video, a brief biography, and a photo gallery.
  

Positives

• This video shows that one person can make a massive difference.
• The digital book and video can accommodate ESL learners with audio and subtitles.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students need to understand the environmental impacts of landfills and plastic pollution.
• Students need to know what decomposition is and why it's important.
  

Differentiation

• This resource could support an activity or lab exercise where students see how fast different materials break down in soil.
  
• This resource could enhance a classroom discussion on how many elected officials lack a background in natural sciences and the consequences of this.
  
• This resource could augment a lesson about greenhouse gas emissions produced by landfills and how these emissions exacerbate global climate change.
• This resource could supplement a classroom discussion on what government regulations could be put in place to compel businesses to use a more circular model for their products, through bottle exchanges or other means.