Creating an Eco-Friendly Early Years Setting: A Practical Guide

Creating an Eco-Friendly Early Years Setting: A Practical Guide – Become a more eco-friendly setting using this comprehensive guide.

Take small steps to reduce waste and improve efficiency to setting up partnerships. It illustrates how sustainable choices can become a natural part of every child’s education.

Children, parents and staff can all inspire sustainable behaviour across local communities and at national and international levels – covering all aspects of practice including:

• colleague and parental engagement
• the environment
• routines
• resources
• and teaching and learning

The book helps readers and practitioners to embed a sustainable approach in day-to-day practice. It draws on recent research, studies and stories of success and failure. Adapt to fit everyone’s own journey towards a more sustainable world.

The chapters address topics such as:

• • plastics and their alternatives
  • sustainable food
  • sustainable resourcing
  • transport and trips
  • waste management

This book draws on the experiences of real Early Years and School Age Care settings, and includes a wide range of activities and lists of resources.

Creating an Eco-Friendly Early Years Setting: A Practical Guide is an essential read for practitioners, leaders, policymakers and all settings that want to help make sustainable choices a natural part of young children’s lives.

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