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Household Waste Management
Learn to safely and efficiently manage waste, and particularly hazardous waste, in the home
- Visit a 'virtual house' and choose extended discussions of the many products they might encounter there.
- Learn about safe homemade alternatives and evaluate them
- An enormous state-by-state database of mail, telephone, and Internet contacts puts users in touch with a wealth of free downloadable publications.
- Includes over 30 quizzes and activities for K-12 students, sorted by grade level.
Created: 1997 by Amy Childress, Alfred Krause, et al.; updated 2001
Audiences:
- homeowners
- teachers
Download and install the software
- All you need to view the program is a Web browser
- Download Household Waste Management - hwaste.zip (compressed file, 6.8MB, unzips to 8.4MB)
- Double-click the file to uncompress and install the program. We suggest saving it to C:\Program Files\seahome\hwaste\
- Start your browser and choose File > Open > C:\Program Files\seahome\hwaste\src\title.htm
View the software online
The material you are about to view is a product of Purdue University.
This environmental software program was produced by Purdue University under a cooperative agreement with the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Although this material was prepared in collaboration with EPA, Purdue University is the author, holds the exclusive copyright, and is solely responsible for its content subject to the terms of the cooperative agreemeent. Limitations under the copyright, which allows for free reproduction and distribution of the software, can be found on the program's title page.
EPA continues to work with Purdue University in developing new environmental software and updating older material, and we appreciate being notified of any errors or other issues.
