This publication is designed to educate children about the effects of product reuse and recycling on global climate change. Through a series of word games, the publication describes how children can prevent climate change by reducing solid waste.
Recycling Database
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There are three important steps to follow to minimize the amount of materials that end up as trash in landfills:
- Reduce - Take the time to purchase products that are packaged responsibly with a minimum of waste.
- Reuse - Find ways to give new life to things that might otherwise end up in the trash. Use the database below to learn how to reuse common household items.
- Recycle - Whenever possible, purchase products that are made from recycled materials. Sort your recyclables and take them to a local recycling center regularly.
Recycle City Offline
Once you have saved the .zip file on your computer, you won't need to be connected to the Internet to explore Recycle City. Just a few more steps:
- Open the folder where you saved the file.
- Double-click on the file, and follow the program's instructions to expand the file.
- A list of the unzipped files should appear on the screen. Double click on "index.html" to open the Recycle City Home Page in your Web browser (remember, you don't need to get on the Internet, even if it asks you to connect).
- Explore the sights! Recycle City should work the same way it does when you're connected to the Internet.
Public Downloads
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Public Downloads - Español (Spanish)
When available, we provide all our content with a Spanish version in our public download section. You can find additional material from sources listed in all our articles.
Download Recycle Activities and Games
Adventure of the Garbage Gremlin Book Educational Recycle Activities
Breaking Up with Single-use Plastics Back to School Plastic Challenge UN Environment and Climate Activity Book
Environment - Recycle Coloring Book
Environment - Recycle Reuse Reduce Coloring Book
Environment - Reduce Coloring Book
Environment - Reuse Coloring Book
Kids Activity and Environment Guide Book
Planet Protectors Club Case of the Broken Loop Activity Book
Planet Protectors Club Case of the Broken Loop Activity Book - Spanish
Planet Protectors Club Follow That Trail Activity Book
Planet Protectors Club Follow That Trail Activity Book - Spanish
Planet Protectors Club Trash and Climate Change Activity Book
Planet Protectors Club Trash and Climate Change Activity Book - Spanish
Planet Protectors Create Less Waste in the First Place Activity Book
Planet Protectors Create Less Waste in the First Place Activity Book - Spanish
Recycle City Activities and Games
Recycle City Website
Recycling Posters Activity Book
Recycle City Online
There's lots to do here - people and places to visit and plenty of ways to explore how the city's residents recycle, reduce, and reuse waste.
To get started, just click on any section of Recycle City that you want to tour, or click on the Dumptown Game. You can create your own Recycle City scavenger hunt or go to the Activities area and see other ways you can explore.
When you leave this place, you'll know much more about what you can do to help protect the environment. Have fun!
Read More: EPA Recycle City
Sample Goals
Reduce the amount of paper going into the landfill as much as possible, and spend as little money as possible.
Remove as much organic waste from the waste stream as you can.
Set an overall spending limit ($200,000, for example) and find out which combination of programs within your budget achieves the most waste reduction.
How much waste can be removed from the waste stream using programs that have no cost to the city?
What is the optimum combination of programs for the city? (This is a hard one, and it may take up to an hour to try all the programs and determine the cost/benefit of them all.)
Video Playlist: Talking Trash and Taking Action
What Is Marine Debris? | A Cartoon Crash Course
Marine debris is all the manmade stuff that ends up in the...
Marine debris is all the manmade stuff that ends up in the oceans—from soda cans and plastic bottles to sunken ships. There’s marine debris in every ocean on Earth, and ...all that junk can kill and injure sea life, impede navigation, leach chemicals, and even end up in our food.
Nationally syndicated cartoonist Jim Toomey, creator of Sherman's Lagoon, has joined forces with The Pew Charitable Trusts to illustrate "marine debris" and other terms associated with our oceans.
Watch the full ocean terms video series: http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/collections/2016/01/cartoon-crash-course-a-visual-glossary-of-ocean-terminology
*TRANSCRIPT*
You know that feeling of having too much stuff – gadgets, loose socks, maybe a couple of abandoned fishing vessels? Now imagine that multiplied by, oh, one trillion, and you start to understand how the ocean must feel about marine debris.
Marine debris is all the manmade stuff that ends up in the ocean, from soda cans, plastic bottles and the sun hat you lost last summer--to abandoned fishing gear, entire vessels that are sunken or marooned. Whether it got there on purpose or by accident, and even if that hat happens to fit a certain octopus just perfectly, it still qualifies as marine debris.
Scientists say there are 5 and a quarter trillion pieces of plastic alone in the ocean, and that’s only part of the marine debris problem. All that junk is killing and injuring sea life, impeding navigation, leaching chemicals, and even ending up in our food.
Plastics, for example, break down into tiny particles that resemble fish eggs. Fish consume those particles, we eat the fish and, well, you know.
Marine debris is present in every ocean, carried far and wide by currents and wind.
People – and probably some fish – are working on ways to clean all this stuff up but, as yet, nobody has found a solution… or your hat, for that matter.
Pewtrusts.org/cartooncrashcourse
Plastic Wars (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
Have efforts to solve the plastic pollution problem made it worse? Go...
Have efforts to solve the plastic pollution problem made it worse? Go inside the battle over plastics, recycling and what’s at stake.
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Despite efforts spreading across America to reduce the use of plastic and the crisis of ocean pollution growing, the plastics industry is rapidly scaling up new production and promoting a familiar solution: recycling. But it’s estimated that no more than 10% of plastic produced has ever been recycled. The documentary “Plastic Wars,” from FRONTLINE and NPR, reveals how plastic makers for decades have publicly promoted recycling, despite privately expressing doubts that widespread plastic recycling would ever be economically viable.
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The Devil We Know
The Devil We Know is a investigative documentary of health hazards from...
The Devil We Know is a investigative documentary of health hazards from Teflon. Premier includes footage of public hearings, news reports and corporate ads, along with input from scientists and ...activists.
Why BPA Free is not better - 2 Minutes to Health
In this episode of 2 Minutes to Health, Katherine explains why BPA free...
In this episode of 2 Minutes to Health, Katherine explains why BPA free plastic is not actually any healthier and what you can use instead.
Dr. Shanna Swan on How Plastics in Food are Affecting Our Hormone Levels
Taken from JRE #1638 w/Dr. Shanna...
Taken from JRE #1638 w/Dr. Shanna Swan:
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What really happens to the plastic you throw away - Emma Bryce
View full lesson:...
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-really-happens-to-the-plastic-you-throw-away-emma-bryce
We’ve all been told that we should recycle plastic bottles and containers. But what actually happens to the plastic if we just throw it away? Emma Bryce ...traces the life cycles of three different plastic bottles, shedding light on the dangers these disposables present to our world.
Lesson by Emma Bryce, animation by Sharon Colman.
Waste Age: can we reuse, repair, and remake?
We are living in the age of waste. Is design the answer to leaving our...
We are living in the age of waste. Is design the answer to leaving our throwaway culture behind?
Museum of Electronic Waste (2020) Online Presentation by Han Wu
What will happen to future cities if we take commodities such as...
What will happen to future cities if we take commodities such as garbage collection and recycling for granted? Movies like Wall-E makes me wonder if that alternative reality portrayed in ...the film is actually turning into our own reality. With some research, I found out that one of the fastest growing stream of waste that causes these excessive waste we produce is actually e-waste and Australia is ranked one of the highest disposers of that e-waste, contributing to ranking 4th in the whole world.
Growing up in a third world country, I’ve personally witnessed the direct impact of improper disposal of waste. Most if not all of the less fortunate people in my country lives in poverty and mostly on these waste dump sites. Knowing these negative impacts, it prompt and inspired me to design a museum project that can create social awareness on the dark side of e-waste by educating the visitors through a narrated spatial journey and allowing them to physically experience the real impact of e-waste in the world.
MSD Studio 39 - Remember Architecture
Studio Leaders: Shervin Jaberzadeh, Alison Pedder and Greg Gong of Denton Corker Marshal
Produced by:
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Revit 3D
Rhino 3D
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Final Cut Pro X
Master of Architecture Studio CDE
Melbourne School of Design
University of Melbourne
The Plastic Problem - A PBS NewsHour Documentary
By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans. It’s an...
By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans. It’s an environmental crisis that’s been in the making for nearly 70 years. Plastic pollution is now considered ...one of the largest environmental threats facing humans and animals globally.
In “The Plastic Problem: PBS NewsHour Presents”, Amna Nawaz and her PBS NewsHour colleagues look at this now ubiquitous material and how it’s impacting the world, why it’s become so prevalent, what’s being done to mitigate its use, and what potential alternatives or solutions are out there. This hour-long program travels from Boston to Seattle, Costa Rica to Easter Island to bring the global scale of the problem to light.
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Plastics Industry Insiders Reveal the Truth About Recycling | "Plastic Wars" | FRONTLINE + NPR
Three top executives who represented the plastics industry at a pivotal...
Three top executives who represented the plastics industry at a pivotal moment shed new light on the industry’s efforts to overcome growing concern about plastic waste by pushing recycling -- ...despite the fact that "there was never an enthusiastic belief that recycling was ultimately going to work in a significant way."
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Those are the words of Lewis Freeman, former VP of government affairs for what was then the industry’s chief lobbying group, the Society of the Plastics Industry, in the new FRONTLINE and NPR documentary, "Plastic Wars."
The industry would publicly promote recycling as the solution to the waste crisis — despite internal doubts, from almost the beginning, that widespread plastic recycling could ever be economically viable.
The strategy was simple: “If the public thinks the recycling is working, then they’re not going to be as concerned about the environment,” says Larry Thomas, who formerly headed the SPI.
To date, it's estimated that no more than 10 percent of plastic produced has ever been recycled.
For the full story, watch "Plastic Wars," a joint investigation from FRONTLINE and NPR, starting Mar. 31: https://to.pbs.org/2UtRWv5
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Kenya’s Environmental Activists Welcome US Support on Plastic Pact
Kenya’s environmental activists have welcomed US support for a global...
Kenya’s environmental activists have welcomed US support for a global pact to combat plastic pollution in the oceans. Juma Majanga reports from Watamu, Kenya. Producer: Rod James, Camera: Jimmy ...Makhulo, UNEP Pool
Originally published at - https://www.voanews.com/a/kenya-s-environmental-activists-welcome-us-support-on-plastic-pact/6336484.html
What Is Marine Debris? | A Cartoon Crash Course
Marine debris is all the manmade stuff that ends up in the oceans—from soda cans and plastic bottles to sunken ships. There’s marine debris in every ocean on Earth, and ...all that junk can kill and injure sea life, impede navigation, leach chemicals, and even end up in our food.
Nationally syndicated cartoonist Jim Toomey, creator of Sherman's Lagoon, has joined forces with The Pew Charitable Trusts to illustrate "marine debris" and other terms associated with our oceans.
Watch the full ocean terms video series: http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/collections/2016/01/cartoon-crash-course-a-visual-glossary-of-ocean-terminology
*TRANSCRIPT*
You know that feeling of having too much stuff – gadgets, loose socks, maybe a couple of abandoned fishing vessels? Now imagine that multiplied by, oh, one trillion, and you start to understand how the ocean must feel about marine debris.
Marine debris is all the manmade stuff that ends up in the ocean, from soda cans, plastic bottles and the sun hat you lost last summer--to abandoned fishing gear, entire vessels that are sunken or marooned. Whether it got there on purpose or by accident, and even if that hat happens to fit a certain octopus just perfectly, it still qualifies as marine debris.
Scientists say there are 5 and a quarter trillion pieces of plastic alone in the ocean, and that’s only part of the marine debris problem. All that junk is killing and injuring sea life, impeding navigation, leaching chemicals, and even ending up in our food.
Plastics, for example, break down into tiny particles that resemble fish eggs. Fish consume those particles, we eat the fish and, well, you know.
Marine debris is present in every ocean, carried far and wide by currents and wind.
People – and probably some fish – are working on ways to clean all this stuff up but, as yet, nobody has found a solution… or your hat, for that matter.
Pewtrusts.org/cartooncrashcourse
Recycling Seven Promises Infographic 
The CD Recycling Center of America - Proper Destruction Presentation 
