This kit is a flexible tool for teachers of all ages. Its multidisciplinary focus includes math, science, art, social studies, language arts, and health. Lessons encourage students to utilize skills ranging from reading and writing to problem-solving and analytical thinking. This resource provides hands-on lessons and activities, enrichment ideas, journal writing assignments, and other educational tools related to preventing and reducing trash. Within these lessons, students will:

• Think critically about their own actions and the results of their actions
• Assess their own resource conservation and waste prevention values
• Understand the connections among the use of natural resources, use of products, waste disposal, and causes and effects of environmental impacts
• Understand the hierarchy of preferred waste management options and students' role in the different options
• Understand the concept of personal responsibility toward the environment