Today, Common Seas and Kids Against Plastic launched their Plastic Clever Schools resources for 11–16-year old’s.

The movement is designed to empower students to drive impactful change in their schools and beyond through three key stages, including:
Inspire: Learn all about plastic and share that information to engage your whole school community.

Investigate: Complete a plastic audit to discover the problem plastics in your school and get ready to do something about it!
Act: Create exciting campaigns to act on plastic waste and celebrate the difference you’re making in your school and community.

In addition to almost 500 primary schools, Common Seas and Kids against Plastic are urging secondary schools to come on board and help make a plastic waste free future a reality.

The online platform provides supporting resources such as interactive toolkits, illustrated fact sheets, hands-on activities and presentations.

Following the event, Amy Meek, Head of Youth Action at Common Seas & Co-Founder of Kids Against Plastic said: “This event brought together some incredible speakers to showcase the power of youth in the fight against plastic. We know young people are passionate about this topic and want to make meaningful change.

With a projected 24 million new jobs being created as we move towards a circular economy, many of the future careers of our young people don’t exist. We need to ensure students are not only prepared for this bright future but are empowered to be part of the journey to get there.”