During 2020 and 2021, WH Academic Students have been writing a Basic Education Waste Awareness Teachers Handbook. This book is written to assist teachers in middle and high schools to teach waste management issues to their students.
Environmental pollution is one of the biggest issues facing the world today as garbage causes major damage to peoples' health, water, air and soil. We need to start systematically sorting and disposing of our waste to help restore the environment. It is essential that environmental issues are taught to children, and it is at the foundation of their learning.
The book is written in five chapters, covering seven basic topics that you should know about garbage.
Chapter (1) Systematic sorting and disposal of waste
Chapter (2) Disadvantages of undisciplined dumping
Chapter (3) Reducing and rejecting plastic waste
Chapter (4) Recycling and Innovating the Garbage
Chapter (5) Making natural waste into compost
We would like to acknowledge the Gulf of Mottama Project (GoMP) for financial support to do research about waste and to create this book. We would also like to thank the many individuals and groups actively involved in producing this book.