Roots & Shoots: forMULA project toolkit and ocean pollution activities
The Jane Goodall Institute’s four-step project method (engage, observe, do, celebrate) for youth groups tackling local waste.
Interactive tool
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Kids Against Plastic (KAP): Planet Friendly Missions, Action Academy and KAP Club
Youth-led UK charity with primary missions, weekly club packs, an online Action Academy for 11–18s and a litter-logging app.
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Ocean Heroes HQ: youth campaign bootcamp and toolkit
A campaign-building programme for 11–18s: bootcamps, an online classroom, a campaign toolkit and micro-grants.
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Plastic Pollution Coalition: plastic-free school resources and campus manual
A curated K–12 resource index plus the illustrated Plastic-Free Campus Manual (2024) for colleges and universities.
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LEGO Build the Change: circular economy courses for ages 7–12
Hands-on design courses in which children build and pitch solutions to waste and plastic problems, with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
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Ellen MacArthur Foundation teaching resources: circular economy and ‘Redesigning plastics’
Six lesson plans for 12–19s and a Learning Hub explaining why recycling alone fails and what circular design looks like.
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Kids vs Plastic hub
National Geographic Kids’ articles, videos, quizzes, crafts and downloadable toolkits for roughly 8 to 13 year olds.
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Plastic Clever Schools award
The three-step (evidence, investigate, act) school accreditation for plastic reduction, used by 1,500+ schools in 50+ countries.