Discover the world of things we leave behind. Our waste, garbage, junk, trash, and glop must go somewhere. Reducing, reusing and recycling will help us restore and protect our environment.
Clean
Sweep USA
There's lots to learn about solid waste management: Garbage
pizza, Waste watchers (make less waste in the first place), Compost
Office, Recycling Rules, Energy to Burn (burning
waste to generate electricity), Landfill Lounge (how landfills work)
Consumer's
Handbook for Reducing Solid Waste
Discover why trash is a problem, why recycling is useful, and what you
can do!
EEK!
Environmental Education for Kids
An electronic magazine for kids in grades 4-8 and created by the Wisconsin
Department of Natural Resources.
Recycle
City
A game, an interactive book, and other puzzles will teach you hundreds
of ways a whole town can reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Science Fair Fun: Designing Environmental Science Projects (PDF) (16 pp, 245K About PDF )
Science
Fair Fun: Designing Environmental Science Projects en Español
(PDF) (16 pp, 223K About
PDF )
Resource booklet designed to generate ideas for students and teachers
interested in solid waste science fair projects. This document contains
a brief overview of the scientific method and provides students and educators
with sample project ideas that provide a basis for designing an environmental
science experiment. It also contains a glossary of solid-waste terms
and a list of "other resources",
both print and electronic, related to environmental science projects.
Waste
facts and more
Basic facts about garbage, plus project ideas and activities to help
you make a difference in reducing the amount of waste that is created every
day!
Waste
No Words
Test your knowledge about waste by solving this crossword puzzle.
Where Compost Happens
See how Mansfield Middle School set up a school-wide food waste composting program.