Solving the Waste Problem by Modernizing the Secondary Education

By to Directive 2008/98/EC on waste, which is the basic EU waste management legislation, waste means any substance or object, which the holder discards, intends, or is required to discard. Unfortunately, we are currently linking waste to the global problems of humanity. Every year around 2 billion tonnes of municipal waste is collected worldwide. This amount will increase every year due to the growth of global population. Environmental education is one of the basic preventive tools of environmental protection. The basis of the submitted paper is to point out the possibilities of modernization of Environmental education through selected ICT tools in the topic of Waste in the teaching process. The aim of the paper is to introduce available mobile applications (Trash Out, Green Daily, Czech Zero Waste) to teachers and pupils of lower secondary education with the possibility of their application within the Environmental education. The result of this work is a model of environmental education for lower secondary education, which interconnects mobile learning, interdisciplinary learning, project-based learning and outdoor education in order to modernize and streamline the teaching of waste issues and make this issue more attractive to pupils. The content of education, which the model proposed by us, mediates, consists of 3 consecutive levels. Through them, pupils gradually become acquainted with the specific waste problem found in their immediate environment. Subsequently, they will become acquainted with the possible solutions (corrections) of this problem and also with the ways of preventing it.