30-day Swap Challenge: day-by-day tracker
One swap a week for four weeks plus a wild-card, with daily ticks, weekly ‘did it stick?’ checks and grams avoided at the end.
Schools and teachers
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Where does my plastic go? A read-aloud story for ages 5–7
Bob the Bottle’s four journeys (bin, ground, recycling, refill) in a reading-age-7 story with four checked facts.
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Where does my plastic go? An explainer for ages 8–11
One bottle, four endings, and the answer to ‘if we recycle it, why is it still a problem?’, with six sourced facts.
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School pledge: Starter, three-item and Plastic Clever tiers
Ready-to-sign pledge text for a class or school in three tiers, mapped to the Plastic Free Schools and Plastic Clever Schools targets.
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Letter template: asking the head teacher, principal or canteen for change
A one-page, fill-in-the-blanks letter with sourced facts, a menu of specific asks and an offer to help, plus a catering-company version.
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Poster: The five Rs, in the right order
Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot on one A3 poster, with the one number that explains why recycling comes fourth. Scalable vector graphics (SVG) editable.
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Australian Marine Conservation Society: ocean plastic pollution posters
Free print-at-home A4 and A3 educational and values posters (‘Plastics are forever’) for classrooms and community groups.
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PBS NewsHour: The Plastic Problem documentary and student-inventor lesson
A 54-minute documentary and a 3–4 lesson plan (grades 9–12) on how student inventors can tackle plastic, with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) codes…
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TeachEngineering: The Plastisphere (microplastics and wastewater treatment)
A grade 9–12 lesson with three hands-on labs: microbead extraction, a mini wastewater plant and fluorescent plastic tracing.
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TeachEngineering: Great Pacific Garbage Patch mapping lesson
A grade 6–8 lesson using mapping and ocean-current data to understand how plastic gathers in gyres (huge, slowly circling ocean currents).