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The school is about growing food and being an organic farm. They do not use chemicals such as pesticides and herbicides. They also have bees and chickens.
Think of the articles and the books that we have read, and think of at least 10 thoughtful questions for them.
For example:
1. I was reading that a lot of farms waste food because the produce is not considered 'beautiful' and it will not sell in a store, do you all have any food waste? Or are you trying to change people's ideas about always having perfect looking fruits and vegetables?

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Kennesaw State University | Michael A. Leven School of Culinary Sustainability and Hospitality

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Michael A. Leven School of Culinary Sustainability and Hospitality

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1. Read Food Waste, and Fighting Food Waste Article. They are also purple.
Answer:
2. What did you find interesting about the Food Waste article?
3. What did you find interesting about the 'fighting' article?
4. What can we do in your house to help fight food waste? How can we change habits to fight food waste?

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Newsela | A student with an idea helps America fight food waste, one click at a time

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A young volunteer thought America's food pantries needed an online network to ensure donated food was used somewhere before it spoiled. She built a website. Tons of food have been saved.

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Newsela | U.S. throws away half of all food produce

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I think that the trash population was Interesting about how much trash that there in some of the states like Nevada and California and Georgia does just fin

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1. 2 aluminen cans
2. 4 card board boxes
3.4 water bottles
4. Tissues
5. Carboard cracker box
6. Pringles Can
7. Car parts - metal
8. Chicken - left over
9. Moldy cheese
10.  paper

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1. Weigh how much trash your family has created in the last 2 days. How much is it, and does it compare to the personal daily average presented in the articles?
2. Write a list of 10 things that you can find the trash - based on your previous reading how many of those products can be recycled?
3. Create a recycling bin in your garage, and create posters for each bin or bag showing your family what you can recycle.
4. Recycle the items that you, and make a graph showing the different types of items recycled, and how many of each you recycled.

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The great thing about the modern sanitation system is that we don't have to live with our garbage. The bad thing thing about the modern sanitation system is that ... we don't have to live with our garbage. In my rebellious youth I used to (half-jokingly) assert that littering should be encouraged so that we could all see just how much garbage we make - if we were forced to live with it we'd surely make less, right? But we have good sanitation and it means that we can make more and more and more and more garbage, and it all gets magically taken away to leave room for us to make more. That's progress! (I know, I know, good sanitation is essential for quelling disease and squalor, but you get my point.)

I'm pretty sure we all understand that there's a whole lot of trash going on around here. But the numbers behind it really bring it home. To that end, SaveOnEnergy compiled a report that looks at landfills and the numbers around them. Here are some of the eye-opening statistics that made me think ... wow, littering should be encouraged! (Not really, please don't kill me in the comments.)

Anyhow, take a look.

4.4 pounds: The amount of trash generated daily, on average, by every American. Packed in cubed feet it would be the height of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

254 million tons: The amount of trash that Americans generate in a year.

22 billion: Plastic bottles thrown out yearly.

12 feet: The height of a wall from Los Angeles to New York City that could be made from tossed office paper every year.

300: Laps around the equator that could be made in paper and plastic cups, forks, and spoons disposed of annually.

2,000+: The number of active landfills in the country.

1000s: The number of inactive landfills in the country.

38.4 tons: the amount of garbage per person in Las Vegas landfills.

10 tons, or less: The amount of landfill waste per person in Idaho, North Dakota, and Connecticut.
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$19: The cost per ton that Alabama charges to take another state's trash.

3.4 million tons: The amount of out-of-state waste taken by Ohio each year at the cost of $35 per ton.

32 percent: The amount of Ohio's out-of-state trash that came from New York.

34.3 percent: The amount of garbage that Americans are now recycling yearly. Recycling and composting prevented 87.2 million tons of material from being disposed in 2013, up from 15 million tons in 1980.

39 million: The number of cars taken off the road to hypothetically equal the 186 million metric tons of carbon dioxide not released thanks to annual recycling. Which is awesome, and which we should strive for more of!

The report, Land of Waste: American Landfills and Waste Production also has some really interesting graphics and interactives, like a map where you can see all the data for landfills near your home and my favorite, a timelapse showing the evolution of landfills in the country over the past century.

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Trash by the numbers: Startling statistics about US garbage

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The great thing about the modern sanitation system is that we don't have to live with our garbage. The bad thing thing about the modern sanitation system is that ... we don't have to live with our garbage.

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1. Read the Can You Recycle That? Do you think that you could recycle more on your list than you had yesterday?Yes I think that I could recycel more than what I had on my list.
2. Read the What is the Carbon cycle? Answer: What search terms might you use to conduct more research to understand some of the topics in this article better? What would you hope to learn in your research?
3. Do the calculate your carbon footprint website. What was your carbon footprint? Does anything surprise you about your carbon footprint?I got A toutle of 4,297 on my co2 test.

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Newsela | Can I recycle that? Five tips for better sorting

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To recycle or not to recycle? Darby Hoover, a specialist at the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco, says that what is recyclable varies from community to community. Plastic and pizza boxes are typically not recyclable. You can check your local government's website for tips.

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1. Weigh how much trash your family has created. Write down that weight, and take out the trash. We will weigh the trash again on Friday.
2. Write a list of 10 things that you have found in the trash. Please just add this to the padlet.
3. Read the American Household of Trash Article, and  discuss in a padlet. What did you find most surprising by the article?
4. Read the Land of Waste Article - How does recycling help lessen the amount of trash that ends up in a landfill? How much based on your trash that and your list how much of it can be recycled?

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Newsela | Big Questions: How can kids help the planet?