An Online Collaborative Project
Resources and References
| How can my community reduce waste? | |
| An in-depth look at the complex issues surrounding municipal solid waste. | |
| Litter can be very harmful to wildlife. Learn more here. | |
| Planet Protectors' Club, games, an interactive storybook, and puzzles that teach hundreds of ways a whole town can reduce, reuse, and recycle. | |
| Intended to help you and your students understand what solid waste is, where it comes from, why it's a problem and what can be done about it. | |
| Basic facts about waste, waste reduction, and recycling. | |
| A primer on solid waste. | |
| When your parents ask you to take out the garbage, do you wonder where it goes after it's picked up on trash day? | |
| Classroom activity. | |
| Find out more about recycling and how you can help reduce waste. | |
| From ScienceNet - students can identify the various natural resources used to produce common items. | |
| Informs students about the problems of waste disposal and how recycling can help to reduce the amount of waste we create. | |
| Take a look at several types of trash bags and try to determine which ones break down fastest in a landfill. | |
| What a great idea! |
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