Early learning waste education

Council provides a range of helpful waste education resources and programs for early learning centres in Maroondah.

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Hire kits for early learning centres and kindergartens

Council has two hire kits for early learning education sites:

  • Composting and Worm Farms
  • Recycling and Bins

Each kit contains a selection of picture books, hands on activities, handouts and ideas for younger learners.

Submit booking enquiry 

Put a grin on your recycling bin game

recycling bin decorative image

Swipe across the recyclables to put them in your recycle bin. Try not to swipe on non-recyclable items.

Choose a difficulty level below and get ready to swipe!

Put a grin on your recycling bin

Professional development and parent education sessions

All Maroondah based educational settings are eligible to receive professional development for staff or a parent education session with Council’s Waste Education team to assist on waste reduction or waste management.

Potential topics include:

  • Composting
  • Reducing food waste and nude food
  • Understanding waste and bins
  • Recycling and hard to recycle items
  • Evaluating and advising on waste management plans.

For more information, please email waste.education@maroondah.vic.gov.au.

Waste reduction initiatives

Resources and lesson plans

Composting

Complete our composting request form to access free resources, such as caddy stickers, for your ELC.

We have also created a composting and worm farm activity that you can use in your centre.

Composting fact sheet(PDF, 467KB)

Worm farm junior activity sheet(PDF, 224KB)

School composting junior activity sheet(PDF, 194KB) 

Find out more about different composting systems on our composting page.

Bins

Signage

Bin signage - A4(PDF, 1MB)

Bin signage - 260 by 200(PDF, 1MB)

Colouring sheets

Batteries(PDF, 831KB)

Circular economy(PDF, 459KB)

Linear economy(PDF, 386KB)

FOGO bin to compost(PDF, 386KB)

FOGO bin contents - with ticks(PDF, 118KB)

FOGO bin contents - no ticks(PDF, 115KB)

General rubbish bin contents - with ticks(PDF, 133KB)

General rubbish bin contents - no ticks(PDF, 133KB)

Keep your recycling loose(PDF, 298KB)

Mixed recycling bin contents - with ticks(PDF, 144KB)

Mixed recycling bin contents - no ticks(PDF, 144KB)

Lesson plans

  • Swap Party
    Children are encouraged to think about consumption and alternatives to buying things new.
  • National Recycling Week: Reducing Waste
    Children explore the concepts of packaging, waste, and recycling in order to reduce the amount of packaging from their lunchboxes that ends up in landfill.
  • The Art of Waste
    Children investigate the ways that waste materials can be creatively reused.
  • Visy: Recycling
    Children investigate the composition of objects, the purpose of different bins for waste and recyclables, and the closed-loop recycling process.
   

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