Waste Diversion Kit
The Douglas County School District (DCSD) Waste Diversion Kit is a hands-on resource that helps students understand recycling, composting, and landfill systems while actively reducing school waste through audits, sorting, and data collection. It connects classroom learning to real-world impact by empowering students to improve diversion rates and build lasting sustainable habits.
DCSD Sustainability created the Waste Diversion Kit to turn sustainability from something students hear about into something they truly experience as they see the real impact of their actions unfold in their own school. The kit engages students in hands-on activities to help them develop real-world investigation, analysis, and problem-solving skills, which are core components of high-quality environmental education materials. It brings consistency across schools while staying flexible and customizable, allowing any program to make a copy of the slides and tailor them to fit their own local recycling systems and needs.
Use the resources found in the Recycling PRO Picks collection to help you educate kids, adults, and communities about the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling solid waste. Online games, children’s story books, and ideas for finding local educational resources and information on the 3R’s are among the resources you’ll find here. View more resources in the Recycling PRO Picks collection >