Education for Waste Management

CEES has renamed into the Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development (CESD). 
Please be redirected to : https://eduhk.hk/cesd/view.php?secid=54437

The primary focus of this theme is to promote environmental awareness and action competence of school students and their parents, university students and teachers on environmental waste, through education programmes like the "I Act You Act" plastic waste recycling in the Institute and primary schools involved in the project, Quality Education Fund project on the education about waste, and professional development programme on municipal solid waste management, and through resource package development. The team under this theme also conduct research on various strategies of enhancing pedagogical content knowledge of environmental educators for knowledge transfer to primary and secondary school communities. Ongoing work on education for waste management includes the annual organization of the Innovations in Science and Environmental Studies, food waste recycling, air pollution study and its alleviation, as well as university campus sustainability study.

Plastic Resources Education: 3Rs & 3Cs Programme

1. Teaching & Learning Resources 
2. 3 steps for Plastic Recycling (3C)
3. Plastic Categories
4. Plastic Recycling Bin @EDUHK
5. Plastic Recycling Bin @Primary Schools
6. Plastic Recycling Video/APP 
7. eNewsletter
8. Publication

Plastics Recycling

1. “I Act, U Act!” – Education for Plastic Waste Recycling
2. Eco-resource evaluation
3. Education on environmental waste
   • Understanding of the “Life Cycle Process” of plastics
   • Development and implementation of a packaging index for supermarket materials
   • Assessment and improvement of EPD programmes concerning waste