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How Dumpster Divers Became Sustainable Heroes
Provided by: NowThis Earth |Published on: April 27, 2021
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Synopsis
- This video from NowThis Earth 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.
Subjects: Economics
Authors: NowThis Earth
Region: New York City
Languages: English
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Positives
- Engaging visuals accompany this video.
- The video demonstrates the wastage happening in the retail system in America.
- This video provides information on ways to foster sustainability and prevent wastage.
Prerequisites
- Students should be familiar with dumpster diving.
- The video does have bleeped curse words at 10:48-10:51.
Differentiation & Implementation
- Teachers can use this video as an invitation for students to look at their own wasteful habits and to think of sustainable solutions.
- Teachers can use the section from 6:37-7:05 to discuss the practice of damaging out and its classist and wasteful implications.
- Teachers can 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 food waste.
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