Global Voices Series: „A Sea of Plastic?“

Online Symposium

A Sea of Plastic?

Educational Approaches to Plastic Waste and Protecting the Ocean

Organisations in South Africa, Sri Lanka and Germany share their educational approaches to the issues of plastic waste, waste management, and protecting the ocean.

Agenda 

10 am – 1 pm (South Africa, Germany)

10 am          INTRODUCTION  (Mary Whalen, Hanadi Qualley, EPIZ)

PRESENTATIONS

10:10  am    Munch on the Move: How and why the Sustainable Seas Trust developed a sustained behaviour change educational programme

(Deborah Robertson-Andersson, Sustainable Seas Trusts)

10:40 am     Plastic Waste and Protecting the Ocean on the Kalpitiya Peninsula

(Dlsiri Welikala, Kite Surfing Lanka)

11:10  am     Learn4Life! ­– My Rubbish

(Johanna Schubert-Ergün, Masifunde Berlin)

11:40 am     Break

11:55  am     Breakout Sessions

12:25  am     Discussion and Wrap-Up

1 pm             End

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Learn more about:

EPIZ ­– Center for Global Education (Germany)

Kite Surfing Lanka (Sri Lanka)

Masifunde (Germany)

Sustainable Seas Trust (South Africa)