Preventing litter – Can litter teaching packages help?

Children and adults throughout the Netherlands were hard at work on the latest 'landelijke Opschoondag' (national clean-up day). They cleared up bags full of litter. The majority of this litter consists of packaging materials.
The amount of litter in our environment can be reduced only when we improve our knowledge, attitudes and behaviour. Studies of litter teaching packages carried out by researchers at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) offer guidelines for the development of effective teaching material. The researchers made comparisons of teaching packages, carried out literature studies and sought expert views for their development of a checklist for effective teaching packages.
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