Anti-Litter School Projects

Litter Control

• Hold an anti-litter assembly early in the school year and again in the spring to make the student body aware of the need to keep its school clean. Participants can be recruited from the local community.

  Invite:

  • EcoSuperior or your local environmental organization to discuss environmental programs;
  • a Public Health Department official to discuss litter as a health hazard;
  • an official from the City to talk about clean-up costs and staffing required;
  • a representative from Fire & Emergency Services to explain how litter is a fire hazard.

• In elementary school, organize a Litter Patrol to inspect each classroom and the school ground for litter.

• Schedule regular clean-ups. Join a Clean-up program in your community, by adopting an area close by to keep clean.

• Hold a Poster Contest in which students make their own anti-litter signs. Post the signs throughout the school to remind students not to litter.

• Put on a Litter Art show. Use discarded items such as orange juice cans, paper milk cartons, meat trays, etc. to make pencil holders, mobiles and book ends.

• Organize a Litter Photo Exhibit at your school library.

• Sponsor a "Don't be a Litter Bug" Week as part of a Student or Parent Council fundraiser. Collect litter "fines."

• Have driver education instructors distribute litterbags to their students.

• Make sure there are an adequate number of trash cans outside; ask your custodial staff to empty them regularly.

Beautification

• Have each class plant a sapling and care for it.

• Start a window box of small flowers in late winter. Transplant outdoors in the spring. Study the care and structure of plants.