Solid Waste Management Media Available for Loan

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Title Producer Description Topic* Length Format Grade After the Storm Weather This program from the Weather Channel and EPA explore the I 25 min. VHS 7th – Channel & problems of water pollution. Topics include the effects of litter 12th EPA on the environment and the fishing industry. Various solutions are discussed including watershed agreements and household tips for reducing water pollution. All About Garbage & Gaiam Join Backpack Jack and his friends as they dive into the big, I, L 60 min. DVD K – Recycling stinky and amazing story of garbage. You'll discover what 4th happens to garbage after it leaves your home and all the cool ways we can recycle and keep trash out of landfills. Auntie Litter’s Earth Auntie Litter This educational series will motivate students to prevent I, R 60 min. DVD 2nd – Inc. pollution and conserve natural resources. The four programs 6th are: Every American Recycling Together Helps; WATER You Doing to Help?; A Breath of Fresh AIR; and, Make a Difference. Auntie Litter’s Auntie Litter Four fast-paced video programs that will motivate young I, R 60 min. DVD 2nd – Pollution Patrol Inc. students to learn more about the environment around them 6th and do their part to clean-up the world in which they live. The programs are: Good Litter, Bad Litter; Reuse, Reduce Waste, Recycle; Where Does Our Waste Go?; and, Nature’s Life Cycle. Buying Recycled: EPA This forum explores the topic of buying recycled products for R Two VHS Adult The Real Story use by business. Case studies from several businesses, both hours About Cost, large and small, are explored. Tips and examples of recycled Availability, and products are shown to promote buying recycled. Quality Cans: Infinitely Can A Curriculum Module for High School. R N/A CD-ROM 8th – Recyclable Manufacturer Adult s Institute Collection of Solid EPA More than 300 publications on hazardous and non-hazardous C, R N/A CD-ROM All Waste Resources waste, including recycling, reuse, buying recycled, composting (A) and used motor oil. Communities EPA This film features case studies of different communities around R Two VHS Adult Setting Trends in the country and their solutions for waste prevention and hours Waste Prevention reduction. A variety of topics are covered including e-cycling, and Recycling transfer stations and municipal recycling programs. Title Producer Description Topic* Length Format Grade Compost: Truth or Cornell Waste This video teaches the science behind the solutions. Using a C 15 min. DVD 8th – Consequences Management quiz show format to present common questions, it shows 12th Institute home composters learning how to provide the right conditions for composting without problems. Comprehensive The Living Provides specific instructions on how to go green in virtually H, R 60 min. DVD Adult Guide to Going Series every aspect of life. Includes tips about household cleaning Green (A) products, lawn and garden care, energy conservation, organic cooking and green shopping. Coolest Can (The) Can This video is an entertaining and educational look at can R 10 min. VHS 2nd – Manufacturer manufacturing and recycling. It starts with an aluminum roll 6th s Institute and can making process and moves to recycling and the closed loop system. Dr. Seuss: The Universal The award-winning animated tale of The Lorax tells the story R 52 min. DVD All Lorax Studios of the greedy, tree-chopping Once-lers and the brave little Lorax who speaks up for the vanishing forest. Also includes “Pontoffel Pock & His Magic Piano.” Earth Aid: Recycling View Video Covers a wealth of innovative tips that cost nothing, but help R 17 min. DVD 8th – reduce waste through recycling, reuse and pre-cycling. 12th Earth Days PBS This documentary looks back to the dawn and development of H, I, R Two DVD 9th – the modern environmental movement through stories of the hours Adult era’s pioneers. It examines the revolutionary achievements, and missed opportunities, of a decade of groundbreaking activism. Earth Science: Sunburst This program, which digs through the garbage and explores L 18 min. DVD 7th – Talking Trash: Visual Media the inner workings of landfills, addresses National Science 10th Understanding Education standards regarding natural systems and man’s Landfills impact on the environment. Earth Science: The Sunburst This program explores the waste stream and the management L, W, 30 min. DVD 7th – Cycles of Recycling Visual Media of waste with landfills, waste combustion, recycling and source R 10th reduction. Learn to compare natural and human-made waste systems. Garbage! The Andrew Concerned for the future of his new baby boy, writer and C, H, 76 min. DVD 7th - McDonalds Family Nisker director Andrew Nisker takes an average urban family, the L, R Adult McDonalds, and asks them to keep every scrap of garbage that they create for three months. He then takes them on a journey to find out where it all goes and what it's doing to the world. General Science Instructional An overview of recycling, this DVD traces the journey of L, R 55 min. DVD 8th – Series: Recycling: Video USA materials through the recycling chain back to the consumer. 12th The Choice is Yours Landfills are looked upon as potential recreational areas. Recycling methods are shown in areas as diverse as farms and Title Producer Description Topic* Length Format Grade schools. Issues like legislation, markets and packaging are touched upon and an explanation is given for the way plastics are numbered. Growing Greener PBS This two-part multi-media resource offers a comprehensive C, R 90 min. DVD 6th – Schools look at best practices for creating sustainable schools. The (Two Adult focus of Part One is on environmental curriculum and its effect parts; on student health and learning. A look at eco-friendly buildings 45 min. and cost savings are discussed in Part Two. (CD-ROM includes each) downloadable handbook, curriculum and more.) Guide to Cigarette Keep Simple instructions, plus tips and tools, will help you launch a I N/A CD-ROM Adult Litter Prevention American plan of action for reducing cigarette litter. Beautiful Let’s Sing for Earth Auntie Litter This package teaches you the words and dance motions to all I 45 min. DVD K – Day Inc. nine original songs performed by Auntie Litter and the 6th Pollution Patrol. Includes a CD, song lyrics sheet and DVD that teaches the dance moves to each song. No Impact Man Oscilloscope A man sets out to avoid making a personal impact on the C, H, 93 min. DVD 8th – Laboratories environment in this clever and engaging film. This means no L, R Adult elevators, no television, no cars, busses, or airplanes, no meat, no toxic cleaning products, no electricity and no garbage. The changing relationship dynamics of his family during the one year experiment are also explored. No Time to Waste Solid Waste This video presents a comprehensive overview of solid waste I, L, R 18 min. DVD 9th – Oklahoma Institute of management in Oklahoma, highlighting problems and potential 12th NE Oklahoma solutions. Rachel Carson’s PBS Rachel Carson's 1962 book "Silent Spring" caused a firestorm H, I 56 min. DVD 8th – Silent Spring when it exposed the harmful effects of pesticides such as DDT Adult on the animal population and the environment. The landmark effort spurred national policy and helped launch environmental activism around the world. This documentary, narrated by Meryl Streep, chronicles Carson's life and writings. Real World Science: Mazzarella By taking trips to a recycling center, a landfill, and a town I, L, R 18 min. DVD 6th – Trash and the Media dump, kids learn what happens to trash after they "throw it 9th Environment away." This program focuses on the environmental problems created by solid waste and offers suggestions for ways to alleviate them. Includes teachers guide. Recycling Video Sunburst Presents the processes carried out at landfills and recycling L, R 30 min. DVD 5th – Quiz Visual Media centers, and identifies what items can be recycled. 9th Renovation Nation: Gaiam Former host of “This Old House,” Steve Thomas, travels the R 60 min. DVD Adult Recycle, Reuse & country in search of the most innovative, cutting-edge ideas Reclaim for green building and design. From salvaged building Title Producer Description Topic* Length Format Grade materials to product repurposing, see how reclaiming and reusing can give your home a new look while holding onto part of the past. Roscoe’s Totally Steel Integrated environmental education program for the middle R N/A CD-ROM 6th – Cycled World Recycling school that focuses on solid waste management through 9th Institute lessons and activities that support critical thinking. Rotten Truth (The) Children’s This educational video shows kids what happens to garbage L, R 30 min. VHS 2nd – Television after it is thrown away. Here they go on a trip to the "Museum 6th Workshop of Modern Garbage" and a landfill in search of "The Rotten Truth"! Simple Steps to a Lime Media Environmental lifestyle expert Danny Seo shows that it really R 69 min. DVD Adult Greener Home is easy being green and shares creative ideas that have made him America’s leading lifestyle authority on modern, eco- friendly living. From flooring to restoring, remodeling to recycling, green living can be gorgeous living too. Solid Waste Gets a EPA This film explores the ways institutions of higher learning can R Two VHS Adult Higher Education: reduce waste and improve their sustainability. Case studies hours College & University from several different institutions are explored and tips are Waste Reduction provided. (Three copies available.) Talkin’ Trash & The Can The ABCs of Environmental Education includes an intermediate R N/A CD-ROM 3rd – ABCs of Manufacturer curriculum for grades 4-6. Talkin' Trash includes an 9th Environmental s Institute interdisciplinary curriculum module for Grades 6-9. Education Tapped Gravitas The high cost, to both the environment and our health, of I, L, R 76 min. DVD 7th – bottled water is the subject of this documentary that enlists + 26 Adult activists, environmentalists, community leaders and others to min. in expose the unsustainable side of the bottled water industry. extras Trash Becomes i Open Media This easy-to-follow guide explains how what we often consider C 30 min. DVD 6th – Treasure: An intro garbage can become a valuable additive to our plants and Adult to composting gardens. See how easy successful composting is and hear the stories of those who have made it a part of their lives. Trashed Bill Kirkos An investigation of one of the fastest growing industries in the I, L 60 min. DVD 9th – United States, the garbage business. The film analyzes the 12th causes and effects of the seemingly innocuous act of “taking out the garbage.” Unintended Tall Oak A lively and instructive collection of songs around the theme of H 30 min. Audio CD K – Consequences Productions Household Hazardous Waste sung by Stan Slaughter. 6th Waste Land Almega This documentary follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he L, R 98 min. DVD 9th – Projects journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil Adult and the world's largest garbage dump, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. There he collaborates with the “catadores,” Title Producer Description Topic* Length Format Grade self-designated pickers of recyclable materials, to create art. Waste Prevention EPA This film explores the way businesses can become more R One VHS Adult Pays: Businesses environmentally friendly while also improving their bottom hour & Cut Costs by Cutting line. Case studies from several businesses, both large and 50 min. Waste small are explored. Why “Waste” a Cool EPA This educational film explores the debate about global R Two VHS 9th – Planet: MSW warming and its effects on the environment. It investigates hours 12th Solutions to Global both sides of the global warming issue and includes Climate Change information about Waste Wise and other EPA programs as well as tips and solutions to reduce waste. YES I Can! Steel Children and adults alike will enjoy this animated tale of a R 15 min. VHS Pre-K Recycling juice can, hot sauce bottle and daily newspaper, as the – 3rd Institute characters make their way from a smelly trash can to their ultimate destination...the grocery store shelf after they are recycled into new products. Your Toxic Trash Sylvia This video hosted by Ed Begley Jr. features eight quiz H 30 min. VHS 9th – Komatsu & questions that allow viewers to test their knowledge of such 12th Terry topics as which household items pose the greatest threat to Fitzpatrick the environment, the safest methods of disposing of hazardous wastes, and the regulations governing the handling of toxic chemicals by private citizens.

*Topic Code Legend: C= Composting H=Household Hazardous Waste I =Illegal Dumping & Littering L=Landfill R= Reduce, Reuse, Recycle W=Waste-to-Energy Combustion

(Updated 9/15/11)