TOOLKITS FOR CHANGE
WHAT IS A CHANGEMAKER
A pitch deck designed to help you incubate the next wave of changemakers by engaging youth, passionate individuals and community leaders alike. This toolkit has been created to empower you to spark a new wave of impact in any domain you choose. One truth remains constant across every changemaking journey, regardless of the field. It is the shared drive to do more for the planet and her people.
Empowering Women Through Sustainable Hygiene
This short, powerful toolkit breaks down the importance of sustainable menstrual hygiene and highlights how eco-friendly sanitary wipes can improve women’s health while also supporting environmental goals.
How to Use This Resource Effectively:
• For Awareness: Share it with schools, colleges, community groups, or local NGOs working on gender, health, or sustainability.
• For Programming: Use the framework inside to inspire workshops, small-group discussions, or community sessions around menstrual hygiene and sustainable products.
• For Advocacy: Include its key points when pitching sustainability initiatives, designing campaigns, or speaking with local leaders and institutions.
• For Collaboration: If you work with grassroots organisations, this resource can spark new partnerships and micro-projects around menstrual health.
• For Personal Learning: It’s a simple, clear way to understand the link between hygiene, gender empowerment, and sustainable development.
Fully Editable & Yours to Build On
Please feel completely free to edit, expand, customise, or translate this resource to fit your community’s cultural context and needs. That’s exactly what it’s meant for.
CLIMATE X GENDER: UNEARTHING FAULT LINES
Tis powerful, insight-rich visual toolkit that unpacks the deep intersections between gender and the climate crisis. This module, Climate X Gender: Unearthing the Fault Lines, is designed to spark conversations, strengthen learning spaces, and amplify the voices that are too often left unheard.
What this resource covers:
Direct from the toolkit:
– Why the climate crisis is not gender-neutral, and how women (especially in the Global South) shoulder disproportionate risks (Page 2–4).
– Real frontline stories of indigenous women, youth collectives, and women farmers leading climate resilience efforts (Page 5).
– Invisible fault lines: how funding, policy gaps, and missing gender-disaggregated data deepen inequality (Page 7).
– Practical tools: sample modules, action checklists, community dialogue formats (Page 8).
– Intersectional perspectives, disability, queer identities, and rural-urban gaps (Page 9).
– A reminder that climate justice cannot be complete without gender justice (Page 11–12).
Why this resource works so well
This toolkit has proven highly viable because:
– It’s visually driven and youth-friendly, making it easy to integrate into workshops, school modules, NGO sessions, or community dialogues.
– It centers lived experiences, not just theory, helping learners connect emotionally and intellectually.
– It provides ready-to-use formats for action, not just awareness.
– It opens space for intersectional thinking, essential for real-world climate advocacy today.
Ideal ways to use it:
Use it in whatever way helps you create impact, but here are some great starting points:
– Present it in awareness sessions or campus climate clubs.
– Integrate slides into your own training or curriculum.
– Use the stories to spark community conversations.
– Build localized versions with region-specific data or voices.
– Share it with teachers, NGOs, youth groups, and climate collectives.
– Repurpose the visuals for social media campaigns or workshops.
Understanding Plastics - The Good, The Bad and The Future
This comprehensive and visually engaging module serves as an essential tool for educators, youth leaders, presenters, sustainability advocates, and community mobilizers across the world.
This resource is designed to empower changemakers by helping them understand not just the science and history of plastics, but also the systemic, economic and behavioral dynamics that keep plastic pollution entrenched. Our mission has always been to enable changemakers to do more in the areas that motivate them, and this resource reflects that commitment.
This module offers a complete journey through plastics: their invention, their benefits to society, their environmental costs, and what the future can look like if we act collectively. Below are some of the most important facts and figures from the resource that presenters can highlight when creating awareness in their own communities.
Key Updated Facts You Can Use in Your Presentations -
These insights come directly from the resource and can help you deliver credible, compelling advocacy presentations:
Global plastic production rose from 2 million tons in 1950 to more than 460 million tons per year by 2024 (page 4)
More plastic has been produced in the last 15 years than in the entire 20th century (page 4)
Out of 9.5 billion tons of plastic produced since the 1950s, only 9 percent has been recycled, 12 percent incinerated, and a staggering 79 percent has been discarded into landfills or natural environments (page 7)
The average plastic item is used for 12 minutes, yet takes up to 1,000 years to degrade (page 8)
8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean every year, equal to a garbage truck being dumped every minute (page 9)
Microplastics are now found in 90 percent of table salt brands, and humans ingest the equivalent of a credit card of plastic every week (page 11)
Only 100 companies are responsible for producing over 90 percent of global single use plastic waste, with ExxonMobil, Sinopec and Dow leading (page 17)
Many alternatives like paper bags and bioplastics are not always better unless supported by proper waste systems and behavior change (page 19)
These data points help audiences understand that the plastic crisis is not just a consumer issue. It is a structural challenge involving industry, infrastructure and global policy.
How to Best Use This Resource
Whether you are an educator, workshop host, facilitator, community leader or sustainability advocate, here are effective ways to use this resource:
1. Host Awareness Sessions in Schools and Universities
The chronological storytelling from the invention of plastics to modern overproduction makes it perfect for introductory learning. Use the visuals on pages 2 to 5 to explain how plastic became central to human development.
2. Integrate It Into Workshops on Consumer Behavior and Environment, Pages 7 to 14 offer clear breakdowns of recycling myths, downcycling realities and waste management gaps. These are ideal for discussions on consumer responsibility versus industry responsibility.
3. Support Policy Dialogues or Local Governance Engagement
The slides on industry accountability (page 17) and global treaty negotiations (pages 26 and 27) are excellent for framing the policy landscape and advocating for systemic solutions.
4. Use It to Strengthen Climate and Sustainability Education Curricula, Pair it with modules on circular economy, pollution, climate action, and community leadership training. The sections on alternatives and future pathways (pages 19 to 22) make it especially valuable.
5. Mobilize Communities and Youth for Action Campaigns
The practical action lists on pages 23 and 24, including refusing, reducing, reusing, and advocating for EPR, help turn awareness into measurable impact.
6. Enhance Your Social Media or Public Awareness Campaigns
Many slides contain infographic style visuals, such as the top plastic waste trading regions map on page 15, which can be repurposed for public information with attribution.
7. Incorporate It Into Corporate Training or CSR Programs
The resource provides a balanced perspective on plastic benefits and drawbacks. It is suitable for companies exploring sustainability roadmaps or plastic reduction strategies.
Why This Resource Matters
Plastic pollution is a challenge deeply connected to public health, climate change, biodiversity loss, economic justice and global inequality. As a platform dedicated to enabling global changemakers, the Planet First Collective believes that knowledge is one of the most powerful tools for transformation.
This resource equips changemakers with clear facts, compelling visuals and actionable pathways to mobilize awareness and inspire solutions in their own communities.
