Micronesia Climate Change Alliance (MCCA) is a grassroots network of individuals and organizations dedicated to creating community-centered solutions to climate change. MCCA is a non-profit organization that needs your help reducing plastics going into the island’s landfill. Students will see firsthand Guam’s battle against post-consumer plastic waste and join in the fight to help reduce plastics going into the landfills.

Volunteers with MCCA will help clean, sort, and cut recycled plastics and help turn them into sustainable durable products. More info can be found on our Instagram at @micronesiaclimatealliance in our MP4 highlights. You can also YouTube “Precious Plastics” for a glimpse of our grassroots project.

• Visit our Instagram @micronesiaclimatealliance and watch our MP4 highlights.
• Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J7JZcsoHyA
• Contact us at the info listed below for more information and to sign up.

• You will be aiding MCCA in their community project to help reduce plastics in the landfill.
• MCCA will be accepting volunteers every Tuesday and Wednesday from 10-5pm. Students can contact us on our Instagram page for details. 
• Weekly, our offices receive donated plastics from the community. We need your help with sorting, cleaning, and cutting plastics to be ready for production.

In order to earn service learning hours, a reflection will need to be turned in to a teacher for input into Power School. The reflection should address: What did you do? What did you learn? In what way was this service to your community?

Reflect on how you helped in Guam’s battle against post-consumer plastic waste and the fight to help reduce plastics going into the landfills.

MCCA’s objective is to teach environmental awareness to students and bring a sustainable and environmental mindset to the community by teaching them how to sort their plastics at home and lead by example to their peers. 

BI.2.23 – Explain, with examples, that ecology studies the varieties and interactions of living things across space, while evolution studies the varieties and interactions of living things across time. (page630)

- Students will learn how consumer plastics (which humans created) interact with living things on island and how long plastic takes to decompose.

BI.2.26 – Explain that the amount of life any environment can support is limited by the available energy, water, oxygen, and minerals, and by the ability of ecosystems to recycle the residue of dead organic materials; recognize, therefore, that human activities and technology can change the flow and reduce the fertility of the land. (page630)

- students will learn how not recycling can affect the environment and how it damages ecosystems on Guam.

CH.2.2 – Understand and explain how large molecules (i.e., polymers), such as proteins, nucleic acids, and starches, are formed by repetitive combinations of simple subunits (Page631)

- Students will learn how to sort plastics #2 high-density polyethylene & #5 polypropylene and learn about their polymers.

3.5.2 – Describe how discarded products contribute to the problem of waste disposal and how recycling can help solve this problem. (Page657)

- Students will learn how discarded products contribute to the island waste problem and how recycling can help. (science and technology)

HS.1.3 – Analyze how environment influences personal and community health. EXAMPLE: Design a recycling program at your school, village community center, mayor’s office, local market, church, and/or village fiesta. (Page212)

- Students will aid in setting up a recycling program at their school and to spread awareness with their peers.