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REUSE! Because You Can't Recycle The Planet. (Official Full Documentary)

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REUSE! Because You Can't Recycle The Planet. (Official Full Documentary)

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12 Cheap & Easy Tips for Reducing Your Waste - Sustainable Zero Waste Hacks

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The waste and resource management industry is a complex, integrated system that many of our customers and communities take for granted. Beyond the Bin is a multimedia education series that seeks to provide all of our key stakeholders with more information about our industry, our company, and all of our partners who help us create economically and environmentally sustainable solutions. From podcasts to webinars, and whitepapers to live events we're taking you beyond the bin like never before.

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The waste and resource management industry is a complex, integrated system that many of our customers and communities take for granted. Beyond the Bin is a multimedia education series that seeks to provide all of our key stakeholders with more information about our industry, our company, and all of our partners who help us create economically and environmentally sustainable solutions.

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Vox | 2019

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In addition to exploring Recycle City, you can play two games in which you'll make decisions about reducing waste and energy use.

There's more to Recycle City than just sightseeing! Try some of these activities.

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In addition to exploring Recycle City, you can play two games in which you'll make decisions about reducing waste and energy use. There's more to Recycle City than just sightseeing! Try some of these activities.

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Project Drawdown

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Recycled paper takes a circular journey, rather than a linear flow from logging to landfill. Reprocessing used paper curtails extraction of virgin feedstock and lowers emissions.

Solution Summary*

Paper use globally is on the rise, particularly for packaging materials. Roughly half of paper is used once and then sent to the proverbial scrap heap. But the other half is recovered and repurposed. In some places, that recovery rate reaches 75 percent. Bringing the world up to that level can reduce emissions of the paper industry, estimated to be as high as 7 percent annually.

Recycling makes paper's journey circular, rather than a straight line from logging to landfill. Instead of relying on fresh timber to feed the pulping process-and releasing carbon with each tree cut-recycled paper draws on existing material, either discarded before reaching a consumer's hands or, ideally, after serving its intended purpose. Instead of releasing methane as it decomposes in a landfill, wastepaper finds new life.

Once recovered, used paper is shredded, pulped, cleaned, and rid of contaminants. It can then be made into any number of products, from office paper to newsprint to toilet paper rolls. A particular piece of paper can be reprocessed roughly five to seven times, before fibers are no longer viable. In addition to curbing emissions, recycled paper spares forests and reduces water use.

Over 30 years, recycled paper can deliver 1.10-1.95 gigatons of carbon dioxide emissions reductions. Two key assumptions inform that conclusion: (1) recycled paper produces about 25 percent fewer total emissions than conventional paper, and (2) the percentage of recycled paper being used to produce paper would rise from 55 percent to 69-74 percent by 2050. Although increasing recycled paper content uses more electricity, the emissions related to harvesting and processing-and the total emissions from pulping and manufacturing-are higher for paper using virgin wood feedstock. The emissions reductions for this solution do not include carbon sequestration from standing trees that would not be harvested if the use of recycled paper grows.

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Recycled paper takes a circular journey, rather than a linear flow from logging to landfill. Reprocessing used paper curtails extraction of virgin feedstock and lowers emissions. Solution Summary* Paper use globally is on the rise, particularly for packaging materials. Roughly half of paper is used once and then sent to the proverbial scrap heap.

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The Plastic Problem - A PBS NewsHour Documentary

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Take Action To Make The World A More Beautiful Place

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If you want to help make the world a better more beautiful place - this is where you can start! Find all the ways to get involved with Keep America Beautiful.

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Changemakers: Meet the Portland recyclers tackling so much more than trash

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City of Roses Disposal and Recycling wants you to "divert your wasteful thinking." Here's how that shift can help local communities of color.

PORTLAND, Ore. - In honor of February being Black History Month, we're recognizing "Changemakers" - African Americans in various industries dedicated to making our community a better place.

The Simpson family certainly fits the bill. Al, Alando and A.J. own and operate City of Roses Disposal and Recycling in Northeast Portland.

Al is the patriarch. He started the business 25 years ago with one truck and a dream. "I never knew it would be this big," he said.

It is a major operation covering more than 11 acres right off Northeast 138th Avenue and Sandy Boulevard. It has one north star - use its success to pay it forward. City of Roses says it's the country's first, entirely Black-owned waste management company.

Al made a lot of sacrifices to get where he is today. His sons didn't see him a lot when they were growing up.

"I think back to my childhood and I do not know when he slept," A.J. said. "It was unbelievable."

Al didn't sleep much because he had two jobs. He took out a second mortgage to buy his very first truck and start his hauling business. That was his side hustle. But he also worked full time for the city of Portland in maintenance. And back in the day, he didn't see a lot of people who looked like him.

"There was no people of color in the trucks," Al said. "There was no people of color in management. I used to go in there and drive for somebody else and I'd say, 'I can't. Things have got to change.'"

And Al did change things.

Today, City of Roses has about 65 employees, 80% of which are people of color. And 85% of its managers are people of color or women.

City of Roses is also a Certified B Corporation. That means it pledges to balance purpose with profit and consider how its decisions impact workers, customers, and the community.

"As we grow, the No. 1 emphasis is growing our people with us," Alando said. "One employee in particular started on the sorting floor at pretty much close to minimum wage and now this person is just buying their first house soon. It's really providing those economic pathways for folks of color from underserved populations to be able to be financially independent through building wealth by becoming homeowners. And the only way we can foster that is by providing living wage jobs here."

He goes on to say: "We're not coming into communities to displace or gentrify. We're actually coming into communities to support, uplift and invest."

City of Roses says it wants to "disrupt" the waste management industry by transforming what the public thinks of as disposable.

"We are inspiring people to look at waste as an actual resource in society," Alando said. "I want others to also look at people in underserved populations of color as assets and resources to a local economy and not just the discards being concentrated in impoverished conditions."

Right now, the company is in the process of re-branding itself. It's shortening City of Roses with the acronym, COR.

"That way, we can do more than just trash," A.J. said. "Whether that be camps for youth or some sort of nonprofit, it can branch out in so many different ways. We moved to this bigger building and we have a large room downstairs and we're going to turn that into a learning center, especially being here in Parkrose. If we can create that as some sort of hub for youth to come and see people of color running a business, whatever we can do to incorporate our community to help further those goals is the ultimate."

Alando agreed, saying Black men in America aren't depicted as viable when it comes to economic opportunities and independence.

"Especially as it pertains to being business owners. Most black males that are in leadership positions are typically entertainers and athletes or politicians," Alando said. "I think it's a disservice to our next generation not to see the opportunities to be business owners and entrepreneurs to help uplift and support their actual communities."

"It's the same thing with my father. He may have been overlooked and had to go through the hardest trenches in order to become an independent business owner, but had somebody picked him up very early in his life and invested in him, and supported him, and gave him the infrastructure and tools to be an entrepreneur very early, who knows," Alando said. "He could have been Waste Management. And it still doesn't mean that's not possible as we continue to evolve generation after generation. It just means that no matter what, our local community definitely needs to focus on looking in its backyard for its valuable gems, in terms of human capital, before we start looking" outside our city and region.

"We just want to encourage people to divert their wasteful thinking," he said.

And that is the true legacy of a changemaker.

Al, Alando and A.J. Simpson - we salute you!

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Changemakers: Meet the Portland recyclers tackling so much more than trash

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City of Roses Disposal and Recycling wants you to "divert your wasteful thinking." Here's how that shift can help local communities of color. PORTLAND, Ore. - In honor of February being Black History Month, we're recognizing "Changemakers" - African Americans in various industries dedicated to making our community a better place.

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Solution Summary*

Household Recycling

Waste production multiplied tenfold over the last century and will likely double again by 2025. Half or less of that waste is generated at the household level. Though the mix varies widely from place to place, in high-income countries paper, plastic, glass, and metal comprise more than 50 percent of the waste stream-all prime candidates for recycling.

Recycling can reduce emissions because producing new products from recovered materials often saves energy. Forging recycled aluminum products, for example, uses 95 percent less energy than creating them from virgin materials.

Managing household waste tends to be the responsibility of city governments, or of informal waste collection in lower-income cities. Leading cities achieve recycling rates of 65 percent or more. Effective strategies go beyond raising public awareness and include:

fees for landfill waste, while recycling and composting are free;

redeemable deposits paid at purchase (from bottles to electronics); and

programs that gather funds from manufacturers to cover recycling costs.

Collection, transport, and processing are, for the time being, largely powered by fossil fuels. Even still, recycling remains an effective approach to managing waste while addressing emissions. It also reduces resource extraction, minimizes other pollutants, and creates jobs.

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Industrial Recycling

At least half of waste is industrial and commercial. Sources range from manufacturing, construction, and mines to restaurants, office buildings, and schools. The stream of waste they produce is diverse; not all of it can find a second life, but much can. Industrial and commercial recycling reduces emissions when new products are made from recovered materials, rather than virgin resources.

A suite of strategies can enhance recycling rates:

Extended producer responsibility laws make companies responsible for managing goods post-use-an incentive to make products that are longer lasting, easier to fix, and as recyclable as possible.

Marketplaces for secondary materials facilitate the exchange of recyclable and reusable goods.

Innovation in conversion technologies makes more materials recyclable.

Circular business models transform the dominant industrial approach of take, make, waste-recapturing "waste" as a valuable resource.

Recycling needs to be one piece of an integrated approach, that also includes making more efficient use of materials and extending product life. Together, they can reduce emissions from extracting, transporting, and processing raw materials. Because society currently uses far more of these materials far more quickly than the earth can regenerate, such practices address parallel challenges of resource scarcity.

The household and industrial recycling solutions were modeled together and include metals, plastic, glass, and other materials, such as rubber, textiles, and e-waste. Paper products and organic wastes are treated in separate waste management solutions. Emissions reductions stem from avoiding emissions associated with landfilling and from substituting recycled materials for virgin feedstock. With about 50 percent of recycled materials coming from households and the rest from industry, if the average worldwide recycling rate increases to 65-68 percent of total recyclable waste, household recycling could avoid 5.5-6.0 gigatons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

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Solution Summary* Household Recycling Waste production multiplied tenfold over the last century and will likely double again by 2025. Half or less of that waste is generated at the household level. Though the mix varies widely from place to place, in high-income countries paper, plastic, glass, and metal comprise more than 50 percent of the waste stream-all prime candidates for recycling.

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Americans may be able to help lessen the effects of climate change by changing their recycling habits. Alexandria, Va.-based National Recycling Council (NRC) is helping organizations integrate waste reduction and recycling into regional climate change action plans by providing a forum for online discussions and by matching recycling professionals with climate change planners.

Through online discussions, the NRC brings recycling and other waste management professionals together to share information about the link between climate change and solid waste. In addition, NRC's Climate Change Peer Match Project allows recycling professionals share climate change information. The peer match program is designed to raise awareness and assist government officials with incorporating waste reduction and reuse into action plans.

Climate change refers to the projected increase in global temperature due to higher greenhouse gases concentrations in the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases occur naturally, but are increasing at an unprecedented rates due to human activities. According to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA), Washington, D.C., climate change website, the "global mean surface temperatures have increased 0.6 degrees to 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit since the late 19th century. The 20th century's 10 warmest years all occurred within the last 15 years."

Carbon dioxide and methane are the two predominant greenhouse gases attributable to solid waste activities. Carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere when fossil fuel-derived waste is incinerated, and methane is the result of waste decomposing in landfills. While energy recovery from incineration and landfills can offset some of these emissions, both carbon dioxide and methane emissions from disposal can be avoided through source reduction and recycling.

Several organizations already have benefited from these online exchanges. For example, the Center for Ecological Technology (CET) in Northampton, Mass., has completed a three-year project to build a market-based system to compost commercial food waste. Though the online discussion, CET and was able to directly share their findings with an interested audience.

In CET's report, more than 70 businesses participated and diverted approximately 22,000 tons of organic material. The food waste was transported to seven composting farms and reduced approximately 5,700 metric tons of carbon equivalent (MTCE). To calculate these reduced greenhouse gas emissions, CET used the EPA's Waste Reduction Model (WARM), which is a computer model that calculates the impacts of various waste management options on greenhouse gas emissions.

In 1990, the New Jersey the Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), established a greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal of 3.5 percent by 2005, which translates into a 20.5 million MTCE. To reach their goal, NJDEP has completed a Sustainability-Greenhouse Gas Action Plan that links recycling with energy conservation and greenhouse gas emission reductions. By establishing an inventory of greenhouse gas emissions sources and sectors that include residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, government and transportation, NJDEP found that reductions easily could be made if residents recycled more plastic. Mike Winka, who manages the greenhouse gas initiative for NJDEP states that "Reducing global emissions is as simple as putting recyclables on the curb."

Also, NJDEP found that landfills account for 72 percent of methane emissions in the state, which means that installing methane collection systems at landfills would reduce greenhouse gas emissions substantially.

With assistance from the Tellus Institute, Boston, Mass., Iowa also has completed a Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP). The CCAP discloses 16 options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions between 1990 and 2010, such as stricter vehicle emission efficiency and reforestation.

Waste diversion practices also play a significant role. The Tellus Institute found that the state would reduce carbon emissions by 42 percent if it achieved a 50 percent waste diversion goal. Iowa will divert waste through efforts as simple as increasing the number of aluminum cans recycled.

In addition to the NRC efforts, other organizations are researching the link between climate change and waste management. For example, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), Berkeley, Calif., has published "Solid Waste Management and the Greenhouse Effect." This report provides climate change explanations and data such as for every ton of aluminum recycled, 13 tons of carbon dioxide is prevented from emitting.

Also, the EPA has published "Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Management of Selected Materials in Municipal Solid Waste," which provides an analytical framework for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from waste management operations. This report and other EPA climate change information can be found at www. epa.gov/mswclimate.

The next round of online discussions will be held on September 28 and October 26. In September, the discussion will focus on how organizations are documenting recycling's and source reduction's impact on greenhouse gas. October's online forum will discuss emerging issues on solid waste and climate.

Additionally, a satellite conference, "Why Waste a Cool Planet: MSW Solutions for Global Climate Change" will be held on December 7, 2000 to help educate businesses and government about the relationship between solid waste management and climate change. The conference will be hosted by the EPA. Interested viewers should visit www.epa.gov/ mswclimate to download registration information.

For more information about the NRC's projects contact the organization at www.nrc-recycle.org.

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Life of a Can is a recycling education program that allows your students to explore this question and many more! Your students will be empowered to make a positive difference in their communities as they explore the never-ending lifecycle of a recycled aluminum can.

Students can be defenders of the planet, just like National Hockey League defenseman Andrew Ference, who highlights the power of recycling in the video, What's One Can. After viewing the video, your class CAN explore how recycling saves energy, investigate their impact on the environment, and examine the properties and structures of aluminum. Finally, extend the learning at home with a scavenger hunt that illuminates the potential energy saved from aluminum recycling.

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Life of a Can is a recycling education program that allows your students to explore this question and many more! Your students will be empowered to make a positive difference in their communities as they explore the never-ending lifecycle of a recycled aluminum can.

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Project Drawdown

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Waste-to-energy processes (incineration, gasification, pyrolysis) combust waste and convert it to heat and/or electricity. Emissions reductions come with health and environmental risks, however.

Solution Summary*

In a sustainable world, waste would be reduced from the outset and composted, recycled, or reused. The current reality, however, is that cities and land-scarce countries face a dilemma about what to do with their trash. Waste-to-energy is a transitional strategy for a world that wastes too much and needs to reduce its emissions.

Incineration, gasification, and pyrolysis are means of releasing the energy contained in trash. Some of the heavy metals and toxic compounds latent within it are emitted into the air, some are scrubbed out, and some remain in residual ash. With these outcomes, why bother at all? Waste-to-energy plants create energy that might otherwise be sourced from coal- or gas-fired power plants. Their impact on greenhouse gases is positive when compared to landfills that produce methane emissions as organic wastes decompose.

At Project Drawdown, we consider waste-to-energy a regrets solution. It has a positive impact on emissions, but social and environmental costs are harmful and high. It can help move us away from fossil fuels in the near-term, but is not part of a clean energy future. Even when incineration facilities are state-of-the-art (and many are not), they are not truly clean and toxin-free.

The negative externalities of waste-to-energy are diverse, but it has also some benefits: 2-3 gigatons of greenhouse gases emissions can be avoided by 2050,  due to reduced methane emissions from keeping waste out of landfills and replacement of electricity generation from conventional fossil fuel technologies. Considering the disadvantages, this is a transition solution-one that will decline as preferable waste-management solutions, including zero waste, composting, and recycling, become more widely adopted globally. Island nations, with limited available space, may continue to use waste-to-energy as an alternative to landfilling-employing more advanced technologies, such as plasma gasification, to limit the negative impacts. Nevertheless, generation of electricity from waste to energy plants could growth from the current estimated 140 TWh, to 210- 490 TWh, depending on the 2050 total electricity generation needs.

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Waste-to-energy processes (incineration, gasification, pyrolysis) combust waste and convert it to heat and/or electricity. Emissions reductions come with health and environmental risks, however. Solution Summary* In a sustainable world, waste would be reduced from the outset and composted, recycled, or reused.

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The Little Book of Going Green: Really Understand Climate Change, Use Greener Products, Adopt a Tree, Save Water, and Much More! - Kindle edition by Dyer, Harriet. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets.

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Recycle! is an online game that shows students how easy it is to recycle. Students have three minutes to recycle as many items as possible into the plastic, aluminum, and paper containers. See if you can recycle 60 items!

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Recycle! is an online game that shows students how easy it is to recycle. Students have three minutes to recycle as many items as possible into the plastic

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Waste prevention and recycling are important practices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions-which are the cause of climate change.

Here are just some of the ways a waste-conscious business can reduce carbon emissions:

Reuse and Recycle Cardboard Boxes: Save almost 4 tons of CO2 for every ton of corrugated cardboard boxes kept from entering the landfill.

Recycle Plastic Film: Avoid the upstream energy necessary to produce one ton of new product saves about 2 tons of CO2 annually.

Recycle Paper: The amount of energy and materials it takes to make a ton of office paper is reduced by 4.3 tons of CO2 when recycling paper.

Buy Recycled Paper: 20 cases of 30% post-consumer recycled content office paper saves 1 ton of CO2. Buying just 6 cases of 100% recycled paper also saves 1 ton of CO2.

Use Reusable Transport Packaging: Save 830 pounds of CO2 by replacing one wood pallet with a recycled plastic pallet.

Less Energy Used = Less GHG Emissions

Waste prevention and recycling decrease the need to extract "virgin" resources from forests, oil reserves and mines, to make products and packaging. This means less energy is consumed to manufacture and transport products and their packaging. As a result, less carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are generated. The bottom line: with every item you recycle or reuse, you help reduce greenhouse gases and protect the climate.

Less Waste in Landfills = Less GHG Emissions

Recycling also means less waste going to landfill, which means less methane generated. Methane, a greenhouse gas 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide, is produced when organic materials-such as paper, food and grass-decompose under the anaerobic (without oxygen) conditions present in landfills. In fact, landfills are currently the leading source of methane. Recycling food scraps keeps organics out of the landfill and prevents methane generation.

Calculate YOUR greenhouse gas reductions!

StopWaste has developed an interactive calculator that you can use to estimate the GHG reductions resulting from your organization's recycling, composting, and waste reduction efforts. Enter the type and quantity of material recycled to calculate the amount of GHG you reduced, expressed in tons of carbon dioxide, or equivalent number of cars taken off the road. Try the calculator.

Note: Savings estimates are based on the Alameda County Template Climate Action Plan research conducted by ICLEI and StopWaste.

Related Resources

The Business Council for Climate Change (BC3) - a partnership of San Francisco Bay Area businesses committed to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. BC3 members collaborate to share ideas and real-world case studies, identify valuable tools, participate in educational forums, and establish best practices.

EPA Waste Reduction Model (WARM) - This calculator created by the U.S. EPA helps solid waste planners and organizations track and voluntarily report greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions from several different waste management practices, including waste reduction, recycling, combustion, composting and landfilling.

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Waste prevention and recycling are important practices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions-which are the cause of climate change. Here are just some of the ways a waste-conscious business can reduce carbon emissions: Reuse and Recycle Cardboard Boxes: Save almost 4 tons of CO2 for every ton of corrugated cardboard boxes kept from entering the landfill.

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Public Trust Official Trailer | The Fight for America’s Public Lands

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ISRI provides education, advocacy, and compliance training while promoting public awareness of the role recycling plays in the U.S. economy, global trade, the environment and sustainable development.

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Is Your Plastic Actually Being Recycled? | NYT Opinion

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Is Your Plastic Actually Being Recycled? | NYT Opinion

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Dec 9, 2019 | The New York Times

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Is Your Plastic Actually Being Recycled? | NYT Opinion

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As an Earth day activity or to get yourself acquainted with the recycling program in a new neighbourhood, a recycling game is a fun way to introduce kids to the basics (and complications!) of re-purposing waste.

Also check our new Recycling Games Bundle!

To me, recycling has always seemed like a large-scale sorting game for adults. Sometimes the rules can be pretty tricky, but when I get it right there is a brief sense of satisfaction, as if I have just cracked a mathematical problem. Yahoo, I put this egg carton in the right basket!

With that in mind, it only seemed logical to make recycling into a printable sorting game for kids to practice on a small scale. After all, even a toddler is capable of picking up a scrap of paper off the floor and carrying it to the bin. But what bin should he put it in? Now, that's the question!

In our previous neighbourhood, there were five different bins! If a scrap of paper happened to be gift wrapping paper after a holiday frenzy, it had to go in the garbage. Paper towel scrap went into a compost bin, and a piece of plain printing paper would go into a "grey bin" where paper waste actually belonged. Besides these three, there was also a "blue bin" for plastics and "red bin" for hazardous materials.

You can understand now why I was feeling as if I was solving a mathematical puzzle while going to throw away my garbage! It actually took us, adults, a while to memorize what goes where, and even then, after we had received a yearly recycling calendar with recycling tips, we had a few surprises, "Oh no, we have been doing egg cartons all wrong! They don't go with paper - they go with compost."

After we had moved a few months ago, it was almost a disappointment to find that our current neighbourhood only uses two official bins. Aside from plain garbage, there is a bin where all the plastic, paper and glass go. We couldn't quite bear with such a loss, so we organized our own little compost bin for garden use, as well.

Even with the reduced number of bins, recycling programs usually have a few different rules and exceptions, and simply remembering to recycle plastic, paper and glass doesn't work. For instance, broken glass should still go in the garbage, and not all the plastics are recyclable. Old-style light bulbs go in the garbage, but fluorescent light bulbs should be disposed of as hazardous materials. And while practice usually makes perfect, sitting down and playing a recycling game with kids may be a good idea to introduce them to the idea behind recycling programs and to see how well they understand the intricacies of garbage disposal.

In the game template, you will find sixty tokens with different items to dispose of and six bins. Print them on thick paper and cut them out with scissors or a circle punch. The rules of the recycling game are simple:

1. Prepare a number of bins to match the amount of bins your neighbourhood uses. For a simple version, try just two bins: household waste and recyclables.

2. Put all the tokens face down on the table.

3. Each player picks up one random token and decides which bin to place it into. Correct answers get one point, and the person with the most points at the end of the game wins.

While the game is more educational than creative and fun, something about the topic of garbage rather appeals to kids, so I got a lot of giggles from my son as he sorted through the pictures!

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The free game includes: 15 cards of items to recycle & 2 bins.

The full game includes: 60 cards of items to recycle, 6 bins, and two ways to play. 60 cards come in two variants: picture only (for children who cannot read and for the use in non-English-speaking environment) and picture + description in English. The full game also comes with a general answer key with suggested answers for every item!
You can also get the full game as a part of Recycling Games Bundle. It includes this Recycling Sorting Game, as well as Recycling Bingo Game, Recycling Scavenger Hunt and Recycling I Spy Games.
Learn about flags of the world by playing Flag Bingo!

Symmetry, insects and art - you can study all of them with this printable art prompt. Draw the missing half to make the picture complete!

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Printable Recycling Game | Adventure in a Box

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As an Earth day activity or to get yourself acquainted with the recycling program in a new neighbourhood, a recycling game is a fun way to introduce kids to the basics (and complications!) of re-purposing waste. Also check our new Recycling Games Bundle! To me, recycling has always seemed like a large-scale sorting game for adults.