Food Waste Detectives

Welcome Food Waste Detectives! Think you can crack the case? Every day, food gets thrown away in schools, but why? Your mission is to become a Food Waste Detective and investigate!

Gather the clues
Spot the problems
Share your ideas
Find clever solutions
Working together as a class, you’ll explore the food waste we produce in school, discover what’s causing it and come up with big ideas to make a small difference.
Are you ready to solve the mystery and help stop food waste? The case is open. Let’s investigate!

Step One: Explore the Issue

The Teacher Pack contains five modules to work through with your class. We recommend completing the modules within one school term, in relatively quick succession, so that students can build on their learning from one module to the next. Each module follows a Design Thinking approach, helping students explore real-world problems and develop their own solutions to everyday challenges. The first three modules focus on helping students understand and investigate the issue of food waste.

Step Two: Bring Ideas to Life

The final two modules take students from ideas to action. Students will prototype their solutions and explore practical ways to adapt their ideas to everyday school life. Bringing these solutions to life is a team effort! Students can connect with experts and members of their wider school community, such as: Green-Schools committees Teachers and school staff Caretakers and maintenance staff Catering companies and hot-lunch providers Parents and grandparents Tidy Towns groups Local community organisations

Click on the icons below to access all of the resources!

If you have any questions about the project or want to share the work your class is doing please email litterwaste@antaisce.org

Teacher Pack

Teacher Pack Irish

Class Presentation

Composting Resource

Additional Resources  

Check out our Food Waste Page here to learn of ways to reduce waste in school and at home Food Waste in your School | Green-Schools 

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