How Dumpster Divers Became Sustainable Heroes

• This video explains the role of dumpster diving in ensuring sustainability, reducing waste, and effecting change. 
• Students learn about wastage within the retail system, campaigns around dumpster diving, and how they can effect change. 

Positives

• Engaging visuals accompany this video.
• It demonstrates the wastage happening in the retail system in America.
• It provides information on ways to foster sustainability and prevent wastage.
  

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should be familiar with dumpster diving.

Differentiation

• Teachers could use this video in a lesson on sustainability.
• Teachers could use from 6:37-7:05 to explain Damaging Out to 6th-8th graders. 
• Teachers could use this video to open up a discussion about the retail system in the United States and its merits and mistakes.
• Click here for an article on food waste and climate change.
• Click here for an StC lesson plan on solutions to climate change.

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