Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
The EPA provides a wide range of resources, activities, and information on a variety of environmental issues. Here are a few related to waste and recycling:
Reuse + Recycling = Waste Reduction: A Guide for Schools and Groups provides step by step approach for setting up a waste reduction program. Waste Not, Want Not: Feeding the Hungry and Reducing Solid Waste Through Food Recovery lists ways you can join the growing food recovery movement to protect the environment while making a difference in the daily lives and futures of hungry families. Eco Student blog is a forum for students, educators and EPA experts to dialogue about environmental problems and solutions. |
Locker Clean Out - Recycling Opportunity
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The Story of Stuff
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever. Click on the image to link to this and other resources in The Story of Stuff Project.