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Explore the process of home composting, foods that can be composted and the importance of composting....
Home Compost Pack
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Make your own Ollie Organics finger puppet...
Make Your Own: Ollie Organics Activity
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Infographic - process map showing how In Vessel Composting can create compost in as little as two weeks....
In Vessel Composting Process Map
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2),
Ages 11 - 14 (Key stage 3)
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Infographic - process map showing how organic material separated out during Mechanical Biological Treatment is then turned into compost....
Materials Recycling Facility Composting Hall Process Map
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2),
Ages 11 - 14 (Key stage 3)
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Infographic - process map showing how garden and uncooked kitchen waste can be turned into compost at home or on a larger scale....
Home Composting Process Map
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2),
Ages 11 - 14 (Key stage 3)
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Recycling Collection Point poster....
Wastebuster Collection Point Poster 1
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Food waste poster....
Wastebuster Food Waste Poster 1
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Food waste poster....
Wastebuster Food Waste Poster 2
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Campaign poster....
Wastebuster Your Planet Needs You Poster
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Campaign poster reminding everyone to reduce, reuse and recycle....
Wastebuster 3Rs Poster
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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A short video from Love Food Hate Waste showing how we can prevent food waste....
Bread - How Not To Waste It Video
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A video showing how eggs and dairy products can be stored and used to minimise waste....
Eggs And Dairy - How Not To Waste It Video
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A Recycle Now video explaining the process of composting....
Recycle Now Garden Waste - Composting Video
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2),
Ages 11 - 14 (Key stage 3)
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Busta and Pong meet two sock monsters and Busta beams down to an allotment to find out about composting....
Busta And Pong's Investigation Into Composting Video
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1)
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Busta and Pong visit a household and are shown the importance of recycling in the correct bin....
Busta And Pong Investigate Domestic Waste Recycling Video
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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A Recycle Now animation showing how councils treat food waste either by In-vessel composting or by Anaerobic digestion....
Recycle Now What Can Happen To Our Council Collected Food Waste Video
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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A Recycle Now animation showing what happens to garden waste collected by the council....
Recycle Now What Can Happen To Our Council Collected Garden Waste Video
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Videos
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Ollie Organics is made up of organic matter like food or garden waste....
Meet Ollie Organics Images
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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The home compost recycling process infographic....
Home Compost Process Map
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Make your own banana flapjacks by using unwanted bananas headed for the bin....
Banana Flapjack Recipe
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Busta and Pong explore how food waste can be recycled into compost...
Recycle now with Busta - Investigate Food Recycling Video (In-Vessel Composting)
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Busta and Pong explore how food waste can be recycled to generate power (Anaerobic Digestion) ...
Recycle Now With Busta - Investigate Food Recycling Video (Anaerobic Digestion)
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Busta and Pong explore how electronic equipment can be recycled...
Recycle Now with Busta - Investigate Electricals Recycling Video
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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A food waste poster for your school canteen....
Food Waste Poster (Canteen)
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Posters & Signage
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A food waste poster for your school canteen....
Food Waste Poster (Packed Lunch)
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Simple classroom activities introduce food, carton, electrical, metal, paper and cardboard and plastic recycling. Then conduct a waste audit in your school....
Recycle Now with Busta Activity Pack
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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‘Shake it’, was written by renowned South African artist Tresor, with a helping hand from Wastebuster’s lead character, Captain Busta. The song promotes the benefits of good nutrition...
Shake...Shake...Shake...Shake IT! Here's the Shake it Song!
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2),
Ages 11 - 14 (Key stage 3)
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Find out how much food we waste, the importance of good nutrition and how protecting food can reduce the amount of food we waste, with Busta....
Busta's Find Out How Much Food We Waste On Earth Video!
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2),
Ages 11 - 14 (Key stage 3)
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Busta has invented a new recycling machine, like the recycling machines he has seen on Earth, to recycle plastic packaging into useful new things!...
Busta’s amazing Recycle Cycle Machine Video!
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2),
Ages 11 - 14 (Key stage 3)
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Wastebuster Reporter Bheji Rhino finds out that nutrition is important for learning and that plastic food packaging protects food (reducing food waste) but must be recycled to protect the environment....
Busta and Bheji's Find out about food waste, Packaging And Recycling In South Africa Video
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2),
Ages 11 - 14 (Key stage 3)
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Busta investigates food waste and plastic packaging recycling...
Busta's Food Waste And Plastic Packaging Recycling Video
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Recycle Now with Busta short video gives a taster of what to expect. It encourages pupils to think differently about waste and recycling....
Recycle Now With Busta Short Video
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Recycle Now with Busta is a resource for KS1&2. Supporting Maths, Science and English, it encourages pupils to think differently about waste and recycling and includes eco-team activity ideas....
Recycle Now With Busta - Whole Resource Pack
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Supports Maths, Science and English as pupils find out how valuable food waste can be and how it can even be recycled to generate power....
Recycle Now With Busta - Investigate Food Recycling Pack (7-11 Years)
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Supports Maths, Science and English as pupils find out how valuable food waste can be and how it can even be recycled to generate power....
Recycle Now With Busta - Investigate Food Recycling Pack (5-7 Years)
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1)
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The guide explains the resources in this Toolkit to help you to deliver activities to support Organic September or Compost Awareness Week. ...
Organic September / Composting And Food Waste Guide
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Busta finds out how food waste is recycled using anaerobic digestion....
Busta's How is Food Waste Recycled Video!
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Busta learns about the impact of food waste and how it is recycled....
Busta's Food Waste And How It's Recycled Video!
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Busta learns why we should recycle food waste....
Busta's Why We Should Recycled Food Waste Video!
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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This year you can positively support and engage your whole school community to "go green" with this fun enrichment activity, and encourage everyone to be a more responsible consumer, reduce waste and recycle more. ...
Halloween Homework Special
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Home Learning And Parent Information
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This year you can work towards a special Wastebuster award and explore the issue of waste starting with our brand-new Halloween Homework Special....
West Sussex Halloween Homework Special
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Home Learning And Parent Information
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This year you can work towards a special Wastebuster award and explore the issue of waste starting with our brand-new Halloween Homework Special. ...
Surrey Halloween Homework Special
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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This year you can work towards a special Wastebuster award and explore the issue of waste starting with our brand-new Christmas Homework Special....
West Sussex Christmas Homework Special
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Home Learning And Parent Information
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This year you can work towards a special Wastebuster award and explore the issue of waste starting with our brand-new Christmas Homework Special....
Surrey Christmas Homework Special
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Home Learning And Parent Information
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This year you can work towards a special Wastebuster award and explore the issue of waste starting with our brand-new Christmas Homework Special...
Christmas Homework Special
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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This year you can work towards a special Wastebuster award and explore the issue of waste starting with our brand-new Waste Week Homework Special....
West Sussex Waste Week Homework Special
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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This resource provides information on some common materials and their decomposition rates...
Decomposition Timeline
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2),
Ages 11 - 14 (Key stage 3)
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Information
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Planet Protector Parent Flyer for food waste...
Planet Protector Parent Flyer for food waste
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2),
Ages 11 - 14 (Key stage 3)
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Get students involved and interested in waste reduction and sustainability. ...
Lunchtime Crunchtime Lesson Plan 4-7s
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1)
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Get students involved and interested in waste reduction and sustainability....
Lunchtime Crunchtime Lesson Plan 7-11s
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Get students involved and interested in waste reduction and sustainability. ...
Lunchtime Crunchtime Lesson Plan 11-14s
Ages 11 - 14 (Key stage 3)
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How to go about setting up a hotbin composter at your school....
Setting Up a School Hotbin Composter
School leaders
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How to go about setting up a community fridge at your school....
Setting up a Community Fridge
School leaders
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How to go about setting up a community store cupboard at your school....
Setting up a Community Store Cupboard
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How to setup a hotbin composter, community fridge or store cupboard at your school....
Food Waste Guides
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Food Waste Facts Poster
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2),
Ages 11 - 14 (Key stage 3),
Ages 14 - 16 (Key stage 4)
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Display this poster in your classroom and students can learn more about this history of food waste. ...
A history of food waste poster
Ages 11 - 14 (Key stage 3),
Ages 14 - 16 (Key stage 4)
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History of food packaging poster
Ages 11 - 14 (Key stage 3),
Ages 14 - 16 (Key stage 4)
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This take home sheet contains simple ideas for students and their families to help reduce food waste and packaging....
Food waste tips for the home
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2),
Ages 11 - 14 (Key stage 3),
Ages 14 - 16 (Key stage 4)
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Help students reduce food waste in their own homes with these easy top tips....
Food Waste Top Tips
Ages 11 - 14 (Key stage 3),
Ages 14 - 16 (Key stage 4)
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Posters & Signage,
Information
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Find out more about the food we waste in the UK. ...
Food waste infographic
Ages 11 - 14 (Key stage 3),
Ages 14 - 16 (Key stage 4)
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Posters & Signage,
Information
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A wide range of resources to ensure the eco team leader is able to distribute ideas amongst the team and plan the work of the team effectively. ...
Eco Team Leaders Toolkit
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2),
Ages 11 - 14 (Key stage 3),
School leaders
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Information,
Lessons,
Eco Team Activities,
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Supports Maths, Science and English as pupils follow Busta's investigations into different materials....
Recycle Now with Busta Toolkit for Ages 5-7
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Videos,
Activity Sheets,
Posters & Signage,
Information,
Lessons,
Eco Team Activities
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A range of resources to support learning throughout the year, linked to seasonal and termly events and celebrations....
Calendar Events and Seasonal Themes Toolkit
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2),
School leaders
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Videos,
Information,
Craft Activities,
Home Learning And Parent Information
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Find a waste-themed poster for your campaign! ...
Waste and recycling posters and signs
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Supports Maths, Science and English as pupils find out how valuable food waste can be and how it can even be recycled to generate power....
Recycle Now with Busta Toolkit for Ages 7-11
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Videos,
Activity Sheets,
Posters & Signage,
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Various craft activities linked to Christmas, Easter and Halloween and using recycled materials....
Seasonal and Character Craft Toolkit
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Lessons,
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Introduces the pupils to Ollie Organics and dealing with food waste - all the resources needed to take part in Organic September and focus on food waste in school....
Organic September / Compost and Food Waste Toolkit
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Videos,
Activity Sheets,
Posters & Signage,
Information,
Lessons,
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Everything the eco team, school leader or teacher will need to plan and deliver a great week of events....
Delivering a Waste or Recycle Week Toolkit
Ages 5 - 7 (Key stage 1),
Ages 7 - 11 (Key stage 2)
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Assemblies,
Short Activities,
Videos,
Activity Sheets,
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