EED403: Environmental Sustainability in Early Childhood - Service Plan

This report delves into the critical role of environmental sustainability in early childhood education. It examines the definition and importance of environmental sustainability, highlighting its impact on children's health, development, and future. The report explores the advantages and disadvantages of implementing sustainable practices, emphasizing the need for early childhood education to foster children's understanding of their surroundings. It discusses key concepts like climate change, ethical issues, and waste management, and the need for programs to promote eco-friendly habits. The report also analyzes the connection between sustainability, the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF), the National Quality Framework (NQF), and the ECA Code of Ethics. Finally, the report offers practical strategies for creating and implementing an environmentally sustainable program in early childhood settings, considering the perspectives of all stakeholders including children, families, staff, and the community, and discusses the need for waste reduction and the application of green practices to ensure a healthy environment for children.

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Introduction
The essay is going to be developed on the impacts of environmental sustainable in
early childhood, and it will be focused on the advantages and disadvantages along with the
desired consequences. The primary objective is to provide enough information so that the
readers can understand the relationship with a healthy environment and children. Several
scientific theories will be applied in order to gain the proper solutions to such fundamental
problems. Several services can be highlighted in order to maintain a sustainable environment
as well as child care based on their respective societies. It will help to develop interpersonal
communication among the children and by applying useful techniques and strategies. There is
another way to achieve a healthy and sustainable environment is by minimizing different
kinds of waste, reducing renewable resources, energy, and water consumption and utilizing
fewer toxicants like plastics, radioactive waste and so on (Blowers, 2013). It is quite
important to promote awareness and safety measures of the environment by applying and
practicing green housekeeping like eating healthy food, gardening, reducing the number of
wastes, recycling the waste for the betterment and minimizing water and energy
consumption. In this way, children will be assisted by establishing a better understanding as
well as respecting the surroundings and encouraging decisive thinking. Various phases
determine the systems of sustainability including social, economic, natural and political
issues (Pearce, Barbier&Markandya, 2013). Therefore, it is necessary to restore sustainability
and to generate the Earth's systems appropriately. The primary education is required for the
children to acquire knowledge on environment, nature, human beings and animals.
Some significant factors determine and are associated with environmental factors such
as implementing a program for sustainability, climatic changes in sustainability, and
education in sustainability, ethical issues, severe consequences, and desired solutions.
Nowadays, the cause of climatic changes is affected because of the increasing temperature

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that consists of negative aspects on the planet. These effects are correlated with one another,
and both violence and risks are increasing and providing pressure on the species. The
emissions of greenhouse gases cause a significant increase in temperature, and it is based on
several issues such as the physical, biological and system of human beings. Therefore, a
study on sustainability is required to understand the causes appropriately. It may develop a
piece of certain information and knowledge among the children so that they can stimulate
their ideas about societies. Education is essential to understand the sustainable environment,
and it may transform a child into a better person, and they will get enough knowledge about
the surroundings. A child should be aware of their hygiene, waste disposing facilities, nature
awareness and so on. Early childhood education is necessary in order to sustain the roots and
improve the learning skills and values along with natural resources. The dimension of ethical
issues is based on personal ethics which is related to the ecosystem's health as well as
development on economic aspects. The issues are responsible for personal conduct along
with the sustainability of natural resources and rescuing nature. Various issues can damage
the environment such as pollution, deforestation, soil erosion, and fossil fuels that led to an
establishing concern that affects the environment severely. Thus, some remedies and
solutions should be taken into consideration such as restoring renewable resources, sustaining
energy and water for future purposes and utilizing the resources appropriately (Pearce,
Barbier & Markandya, 2013). Therefore, significant issues that should be looked upon like
plastic bags and decomposing them appropriately in separate bins. The primary aim of this
essay is to channelize the essay through various aspects such as climatic changes, education,
ethical issues, and severe consequences and desired solutions for the underlying problems so
that the readers can understand processes and could stimulate their ideas appropriately.

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Discussion
Environmental sustainability is defined as the rates based on renewable resources,
including harvest, pollution, and depletion of the non-renewable resources that will continue
from generation to generation (Blowers, 2013). The goals of sustainable development do
encompass a broad spectrum of environmental goals. These goals are determined by clean
energy, climatic action, along with growth in economic structure, health, education, peace,
justice and education. Sustainability is quite essential for various reasons which include the
quality of the environment so that it can provide healthy environmental aspects, and it will
affect positively on children (Banister & Button, 2015). It is dependable upon the interaction
to neglect the degradation of renewable resources and it can be attained for the long-term
purpose. The practice needs to be continued of the environmental sustainability that will
assure sustenance for the future generation. In the present generation, the majority of the
population will require basic needs and in order to sustain that, one needs to take care of the
environmental factors effectively (Portney, 2013). The natural resources along with the
human-made resources, need to be taken care of otherwise it may degrade in the passing
years.
Early childhood is the correct time to explore such services and implementing various
programs for the sustainable development of the environment, which will help them to secure
the appropriate knowledge. They will be able to understand their surroundings from early
childhood, and it will benefit them in their adulthood (Pearce, 2014). They will generate
several ideas and thoughts which will increase their knowledge about the happenings in life
and it will develop their roots from the beginning. Various communities should arrange and
engage their children along with others into educational programs including special
programs, it can be upon different subjects like technology, and it will benefit them in
different stages of life (Noorman&Uiterkamp, 2014).

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The learning about the sustainable environment from an early age so that it will help
them to succeed in their respective goals. Early childhood education will assure better
opportunities as well as pedagogies so that they can implement them while understanding the
facts. Several pieces of research have been made, and it will benefit them while
understanding the policies and values of nature, and it may make them generous and kind
towards renewable resources.
The ECA code of ethics was designed for the betterment of children's education as
well as caring about environments. The United Nations introduced it, and it is focused on the
principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1991). It shows a reflection of recent
researches of pedagogical and can be practiced by generating a design for the reflection of the
ethical responsibilities of childhood at an early age (Leitch, 2017). Various professionals are
working for those children on behalf of different families and children in early childhood
settings. In Australia, early childhood is recognized as that Aboriginal as well as Torres Strait
islander stereotypical ways of well-being and caring for the children. This code of ethics is
not easily subjected to answer several questions such as issues related to complex situations,
formulas, and other consequences that may one come across after dealing with several issues
(Brien, 2017). The work may not be more accessible for professionals to understand the basic
facts about early childhood. It does ensure a crucial reflection or a type of guide to the
behavior of the professionals along with certain principles. These principles showcase some
reflection to inform the individuals in order to take decisions collectively and appropriately.
The principles are focused on the fundamental and pleasured values of the profession. Those
principles act as guidance for making appropriate decisions and ethical responsibilities are
equally essential. It is the central part of the principles and thus a commitment for having
respect and maintaining the rights as well as the dignity of the children, their families,
friends, and societies.

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The professionals take upon the responsibility and assure to provide proper guidance
and knowledge about sustainable environmental. The workers who are associated with
childcare facilities have to face several difficult situations and conflicts in order to provide
the right guidance. They need to get involved with all kinds of situations, and that will benefit
them in adulthood as well. The need for different kinds of behaviors required so that they can
respect and handle professional as well as personal values at the same time. It has been
determined on the responsibilities that the worker will provide early childhood education and
care for the surroundings or environment.
The code of ethics helps to develop a healthy environment for young children, along
with their societies. It benefits the students in order to understand the values and to
acknowledge the ethical understanding of the environment. It provides effective
communication by acquiring appropriate knowledge so that children could understand the
facts about their surroundings (Mulhearn, 2014). It is quite necessary to sustain the
environment and remove unwanted waste materials which ruin the natural resources, so it is
quite necessary to engage people in conserving the resources. Educational leaders have more
opportunities to provide an unusual yet exciting way of learning and to benefit the children
by increasing participation and improvements in solving problems. It helps them to establish
innovative ideas as well as critical and thoughtful skills. Various schools can engage their
students by improvising different teaching methods such as active learning, practical work
number, and crafting their ideas into a new dimension. The principles along with essential
policies mold the children into understanding the actual conditions by practicing them in real
life such as, planting trees in which they learn to implant the seeds into the soil and thus they
may acquire knowledge about plants and why it is necessary to save plants.
Therefore, it is necessary to promote active awareness towards the environment
through good food, a healthy lifestyle, planting trees, reducing unwanted waste materials and

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reducing the consumption of water and energy resources. It helps in assisting the children in
their personal development and making them respecting the environment and encouraging
their ideas and thoughts. The practice of specific programs may help the students to
accomplish various aspects that they have to learn by applying in their practical life. The
early childhood has been recognized as the increasing factor and it has been looked upon as
the broader aspect in the education community. Thus, the education community is a
significant part of the sustainable development of the environment. It is the process of life-
long learning that aids to evolve various subjects and implementing those processes is a kind
of challenge that every country has to deal with it.
The main issue behind environmental degradation is the utilization of plastics. Many
communities have been spreading the word not to use plastics, and if it is not recycled, then it
may damage the environment. Marine life has been affected by this product, and it has
several other disturbing impacts (Eagle, Hamann & Low, 2016). Several marine species are
getting affected because of human beings as they do not tend to use disposable bins and it
should be recycled. In most countries, plastics are banned and instead, people use paper bags.
The reduction of using plastics should be more adopted and reusable shopping bags and
plastic bottles should be dumped appropriately in separate bins. On the other hand, food items
should be dumped in another bin. Beverages should be consumed in paper cups and straws
should also be banned.
In the recent interviews and meetings, the Global Partnership on Waste Management,
which has been accommodated by the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) in Osaka,
Japan, that experts from waste management from every part of the world have consigned the
continuing issues surrounding by the waste management. They have been discussing how to
collect higher environmental as well as economic benefits via better-shared assistance. The
everyday necessities are equally required, such as clean air, water and healthy food that can

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be threatened by inappropriate waste management practices, with critical outcomes for the
health of all the people. A UNEP news was released and warned everyone for spreading
diseases as they are not dumping the waste in the proper places. It has been contaminating the
ambiance especially the three essential components: water, air, and land. The agency of the
United Nation has acknowledged that the wastes from Municipal Corporation are an
emerging load for communities all around the world. The information has been noted from
the statistics of the World Bank and it stated that the volumes of wastes have been developing
from 1.3 billion tonnes to around 2.2 billion tonnes by the time people will reach the year
2025.
However, the middle-class people all across the globe have slated to increase in the
population from 2 billion to 4.9 billion by the end of 2030. As the population is increasing so
they will intake more resources and excellent goods and risks will increase in the urban areas.
The systems of public waste management should impose proper rules and regulations for the
communities all over the world or else the world may have to face a few risks. Although, the
UNEP, has also recognized that managing the systems of waste disposal has been termed as
the complicated and over-priced public services. They have been tending to dissolve huge
chunks of municipal budgets. Moreover, the Director, Matthew Grubb, who is associated
with UNEP’s International Environmental Technology Centre, has argued that the crisis of
waste management is hanging over the population and it is high time, people should be aware
of the facts that a healthy environment is equally required. It also serves as the opportunity
for developing a green economy in this polluted environment. The ultimate goal for
sustaining the environment from waste management is to diminish the consumption of natural
resources. Every individual should assure that all the materials taken from nature, should be
reused or recycled in maximum numbers and that the waste should be reduced to the
minimum percentage. In TEEL, people feel a sense of responsibility to develop a healthy

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environment and should sustain for acquiring the beneficial factors that one will receive after
maintaining it with the utmost care and to attain several benefits. Thus, it can be utilized for
the long-run purpose and it will be utilized for the success in the different business
organizations.
The policies of the environment have stated that everyone should be committed to
engaging the top-most quality construction as well as the explosion of trash management, the
recovery of resources and demolition services (Goonetilleke et al., 2014). They have fully
accomplished by adhering with all the appropriate laws of environment, permits, rules and
regulations. Thus adding a few more essential things is that people should strive to recognize,
avoid and reduce pollution among most of the functioning parts. The majority number of
TEEL employees are highly educated as well as trained in the standards of environmental
sustainability in order to implement such environmental goals through various programs.
While individuals are efficiently dedicated to the sustenance of waste management, and
therefore, sustainability is not centered on most of the industries.
Environmental sustainability is focused on sustainable food which is secure as well as
healthy for all the people. It is established without applying dangerous chemicals and
pesticides, no vital antibiotics or even the development of preferred supplements. Nutrition
also serves as an essential role in establishing sustainable food items (Goonetilleke et
al,.2014). There is an increasing act towards the plant-based good material. Thus, if one
intends to describe a product sustainable, then it should be socially, economically, and
environmentally sustainable. These critical aspects have been termed as the three most
essential pillars of sustainability and all of them are equally significant in order to sustain
nature and its surroundings. Children should indulge themselves in different practices such as
leading a healthy life, eating healthy food and focusing on preserving the environment by
applying any of their actions or initiatives.

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Although plastics have been termed as the negative aspect by adding contribution to
the three pillars of sustainability, it does provide a positive impact on the environment as
well. Plastics do constitute an intense offering towards the positive side of environmental
sustainability by providing energy-preserving potential as well as implicit recyclability along
with energy resumption opportunities. According to economic aspects, plastics presents a
significant part in every country. They serve as an essential product in the export business.
According to social aspects, the industry of plastics is an important and comprehensive
employer that gives proper attention to education and training (Khoiruman&Haryanto, 2017).
In other ways, plastics do serve as the hazardous element that has been destroying ocean-life
along with its animals. There is only four percent containing the production oil in the world
that utilizes plastics and very less energy is produced compared to other materials. Therefore,
to utilize plastics, people need to distribute a different set of dumping bins so that they can be
recycled and reused for other purposes as well (Jalil, Mian& Rahman, 2013). Plastics are
enduring but it is quite lightweight and it saves quite a lot of weight in aircraft, cars,
pipework, and packaging. Finally, when the utilization of plastics has been completed
whether utilizing for purposes like car bumper or making a bottle, it can be reused in various
ways like environmentally and environmentally. It is beneficial for the worth of calorific of
the plastic that can be renewed via the energy that has been released through
waste cremation in order to generate an origin of home-developed power. There are
severe consequences of utilizing plastics and thus early childhood education is required so
that children can spread awareness and can engage themselves with more practical ways of
implementing such materials in a better way (Jalil, Mian& Rahman, 2013).
There should be the proper way to dispose of such materials in the right way and thus
it should contain three bins red, yellow and green. The red bins should be utilized for
collecting plastic materials such as bottles, plastic bags, containers, straws and so on. It

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should be separated from food items or household waste. The green bin should contain all
sorts of food items and natural resources and the yellow bins should be utilized household
purposes (Adomssent et al., 2014).
The above research was quite significant to understand the basic knowledge and to
gain enough engagement with the subject and it should be implemented in the lives of
children by leaders. Hence, a program will be designed in order to achieve success on the
services of early childhood and it will be processed under the time period of six weeks.
Children from the age group of three to five will fall under such services and both outdoor
and indoor activities will be available to develop their ideas appropriately (Leitch, 2017).
Children along with their family members will be associated with this program and it will
showcase different areas where understanding is required such as the utilization of energy,
food, waste management, and water usage. The activities will also be focused on science,
fiction, and varieties of information that will help to stimulate their ideas intellectually and in
a positive way (Adomssent et al., 2014). It is actually linked with the early years learning
framework that may help to guide a child in every manner such as understanding the
principles, implementing them and desired consequences to support that child for his or her
further development (Ernst & Theimer, 2011). It has been described as the transition starting
from their birth until five years of their age and it will actively enhance their school life as
well (Duhn, 2012).
Firstly, there are five principles of this early years learning framework which are
essential to establish further guidance of a child and they are respectful and secure relations,
partnership, high-level expectations and equity, respect for a diverse range of cultures and on-
going process of learning (Edwards & Cutter-Mackenzie, 2011). The main objective of this
program is to generate a strong foundation for the process of learning in the upcoming future.

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In the first week, children will be taught about the main principle that is forming
respectful and secure relationships. The leader should interact with the children by
improvising their ideas and thoughts in a positive way, for example, children must be having
a few thoughts about nature and their surroundings and they can easily connect with those
elements through practical work. Leaders can engage themselves along with the children by
encouraging or motivating them in their thought process about the environment.
In the second week, children will be acquainted with the basic knowledge about
partnerships which is referred to as the main element for the upcoming success of early
childhood learning. It takes a lot of effort to take the responsibility to take out a child from
that nutshell so it is the childcare department to ensure enough positive learning experience.
They should be treated with healthy food as well as a healthy environment and they should
know the source of such healthy eatables.
In the third week, they will be introduced with different subjects like basic science
and providing them with simple materials like observing and experimenting with the subjects
in real life such as shadow boxes, discovery tubes, magnetic boxes and so on. Several simple
facts will be discussed and it may progress slowly in their minds and they may apply in
various ways.
In the fourth week, expectations and respecting a diverse range of cultures, this may
serve a base to understand the communities appropriately. The leaders must respect the
higher expectations and let them understand the code of ethics. It is quite difficult but it may
turn out to be the beginning of their growth and productiveness towards the environment.
They will interact with a different set of people and they may form a bond and could
cooperatively work together in a single project.
In the fifth week, they will be introduced to all the more subjects especially the main
elements of life, air water and land. They should be more engaged with the essential

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components that constitute a major portion of the environment. They should understand the
value of food and water and should dump the wastes accordingly. In short, practices are
required to enhance their ideas and thoughts as it is their time to develop in their way.
In the sixth week, children will be tested according to the knowledge they have gained
in the previous weeks and that may reflect upon their personality. The leaders need to
cooperate patiently and should guide their parents as well. In this way, positive
communication, a healthy environment and basic understanding may progress inside their
minds and appropriate growth may be accomplished.

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Conclusion
Thus, sustaining the environment is highly significant as they will protect the human
beings in the upcoming future. Responsibility senses that every individual should urge to take
upon themselves to protect the environment in order to sustain in the long run and establish
the required quality. The sustainable environment needs to maintain the emerging problem of
polythene bags and usage of plastic in most of the countries. In many countries, plastic
shopping bags have been banned, and the rest of the countries should maintain separate bins,
and it will make it even easier for all the individuals along with societies appropriate and
clean. Hence, education plays an essential role in such cases, and most of the population
ignores the fact that it can be recycled and it can be sustainable. People have been ignoring
and neglecting the factors several times, but most of them have transferred their thoughts in
maintaining the health-care along with the communities. The majority of the population
should be aware of the programs and the bin facility that is disposing of various waste in
separate bins, and it should be located in every corner of the streets. The plastic bags, bottles
and every intoxicant should be recycled; otherwise, it may ruin the marine life because the
majority of the wastes are disposed of in oceans and seas. Thus, human-made and natural
occurrences are jointly damaging resources and energy.
Other personal ethical issues may be considered and should be responsible for
respecting natural resources. People should engage themselves and sustain nature and recover
significant losses by regenerating natural resources. The practice should be maintained, and
children should be learned in their respective schools about the importance of nature.
Children, along with their families, should take upon the responsibilities and initiative in
order to develop a clean society. Everybody should be aware of their right and wrong
decisions. Many challenges may arise but people should be grounded in their decisions and
should develop a green city. Technological advancements and engineers are searching for

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different ways to increase progression in the country and achieving success in various fields
of work in order to sustain humanity along with the environment. Science is playing a
significant role in developing the world into a better place to live without nurturing nature.
Thus, reducing the utilization of fossil fuels and plastic should be maintained in all countries.
Therefore, practicing numerous activities and developing significant values among the
children, they may explore the knowledge of knowing various facts and may stimulate their
thoughts and ideas over the issues as well as preserving nature. It may also act as a
foundation for creating the base of their knowledge and improving their lifestyle and
construct a better human being among themselves. The process of empowering and engaging
children along with their families so that they can support various activities and could
acknowledge the aspects and could work on those aspects. The role of philosophies, ethics,
and beliefs plays a significant factor and puts forward a positive impact on the learning
processes of children and societies.

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