DOCUMENT RESUME ED 362 418 SE 053 903 TITLE Recycling Study Guide [Resource Packet]. INSTITUTION Wisconsin State Dept. ofNatural Resources, Madison. PUB DATE 90 NOTE 122p.; For related document for younger students,see SE 053 872. AVAILABLE FROM Education Programs, Bureauof Information and Education, Wisconsin Dept.of Natural Resources, P.O. Box 7921, Madison, WI 53707. PUB TYPE Guides Classroom Use Teaching Guides (For Teacher) (052) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC05 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Class Activities; *Ecology;Educational Games; Elementary Secondary Education;*Environmental Education; Handicrafts; *LearningActivities; Outdoor Activities; *Recycling; So1id Wastes; Study Guides; Tables (Data); Tests;Waste Disposal; Worksheets IDENTIFIERS *Wisconsin ABSTRACT This resource packetcontains six documents by the Wisconsin Department developed of Natural Resources inorder to help teachers infuse the environmentaleducation topics of recycling solid waste into social and studies, art, English,health, mathematics, science, and environmental education classes. "RecyclingStudy Guide" contains 19 activities tohelp students in grades 4-12 where solid waste understand comes from, why it is a problem,and what can be done about it. "K-3 Supplement to the Recycling Study Guide"contains 11 activities for primaryschool students concerning solid waste, a glossary recycling and of terms, anda home recycling survey. "Nature's Recyclers Activity Guide" contains 19 classand home activities, games, crafts,songs, and skits to help teach about natural recycling people cycles in nature and therole people can play in recycling natural resources. "The Fourth 'R': An ActionBooklet for Recycling in the Classroom and School" providesclassroom, school, and community activities that enable students topractice recycling, reducing, and reusing to reinforce positivebehaviors for dealing with waste."Recycling: Facts and Figures" 1990 US Statistics reports data from concerning the volume ofsolid waste perperson in Wisconsin, energy savings through recycling, trashtrivia, and recycling codes for plastics."Recycling Games and Quizzes" an assortment of word presents games, and matching and multiplechoice tests about solid waste. 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Many excellent Ott of Sight, Out of Mind Is it your turn to take out the curriculum materials exist andwe Part 1 My Ton of Trash 6 trash? Pile your trash with all the Part 2 hope that you will send for anduse Class Trailt 7 food scraps, paper, old chairs,pop them. Part 3 Trash or Treasure? 8 bottles and other solid waste thrown Part 4Curang Class Trash 9 Consider talking with your students Right in My Hometown away in Wisconsin every year, and about solid waste and recycling you get 6.5 million tons of stuff. Part 1 Natural Resources: before beginning your lessons Why are we making all this trash, to learn Handle With Care 10 what they already know and think and where does it end up? Part 2 Biography of a Product 11 about it. Why is trash collected? This study guide is intended to help Where Has All The Garbage Gone? Where is their trash taken? Havethey Part 1 Making a Mini-Landfill 12 you and your students understand ever visited a landfill? What did Part 2 Follow That Garbage! 13 what solid waste is, where itcomes people do before there Composting: A Great, Rotten Idea from, why it's a problem and what were plastic bags or aluminum cansor trash Part 1 Is It Rotten? 14 can be done about it. The guide Part 2 Readin', Rottin' and removal services? Do people inother includes an overview of solidwaste countries make as much trash 'Rithmetic: Classroom Composting 15 and recycling, a glossary, suggested as Is It A Waste? Americans do? By finding out activities and a list of resource your Part 1 All Wrapped Up 17 students' thoughts and opinions, publications, audio-visual materials you Part 2 What's the Appeal? 17 can help them connect new concepts Part 3 How Many Ways Can and organizations. It is designedto with what they already know. stand alone, yet complements the You Wrap an Apple? 18 The activities in this guideare Part 4 Packaging: Is It A Waste?.19 Wisconsin Department of Natural designed for use in grades 4-12. With Part 5 What Can I Do To Resources (DNR) free publication, modifications, they should be useful Change Packaging? 20 Special Recycling Edition (see How Times Have Changed in other grade levels. Weencourage Resources). you to tailor the activities to meet Part 1 What, No Video Games? . 22 You are encouraged to Part 2 use the your students' needs. You are The Garbage Guzzler information and activities in this Strikes Again 23 welcome to revise and/or reproduce The Cost of the Toss guide and the Special Recycling any part of this guidit for distribution Part 1 Decisions, Decisions 24 Edition with your students in all to students an.: ocher educators. Part 2 Paying the True Price of Pop 26 disciplines. The Department of Public Time For Action 27 Instruction's Guide to Curriculum !) More Activity Ideas! 28 Planning in Enviroamental Education Resources :10 has suggestions for infusing subjects like solid waste and recycling into NOTE: your social studies, art, Words that appear in italics are (.0 English/language arts, health, defined in the glossary. mathematics, science, environmental Sections marked with * are based P1JBL-1E-02089Rev education and other classes. You also January 1989 on materials from the A-Wa y With Kr OF NATURAL RISOUNCES may want to consult other resources Waste curriculum guide, aprogram listed in this guide and check of the Washington State Department newspapers and magazines for current of Ecology (see Resources). BEST COPY AVAILABLE Siring Up Solid Waste Wisconsin's Annual Trash Tally Every day we throw out everything iimunigg from toothpaste tubes to old IN sets, Total Waste 6.5 million tons grass clippings to plastic milk jugs, jelly jars to paper. You may not Municipal Waste 3.5 million tons personally stuff 7.5 pounds ofsolid wasteinto thetrashbag every day, Piper 1.4 million tons. Equal to a forest of 20-25 million trees a but if you add up all the waste from year. Largest portion of solid waste. your house, classroom and school Food & yard waste 600,000 tons. 15-20 of the total. cafeteria, from the restaurant where you ate, from the factories that made Glass bottles 200,000 tons. 750 million bottles, half for soda and beer. your clothes or paper, from the utility On the decline, as more beverages are.packaged in plastic that generated your electricity and and foil bottles, pouches, aud boxes. from the stores where you shopped, it . 2*- amounts to about 7.5 pounds a day Metal cans 91,000 tons (30,000 tons aluminum, 57,6.00 tons steel, per person. Multiply that by 365 days 4,000 tons bimetal). 2.5 billion a year, including eLough aluminum soda and beer cans (1.4 billion) to circle the per year, then by 4 8 million earth 4 times. Wisconsin citizens, and your results show that Wisconsin throws away Tires 60,000 tons. 4 million a year. An estimated 15-20 million more than 6.5 million tons of stuff tires are stockpiled in Wisconsin. each year! But where is "away?" Is there such Motor oil 58,000 tons (50,000 tons or 12.5 million gallons from a place? service stations; another 8,000 tons or 2 millioa gallons Six and one half million tons of from people who change car oil at home). State law waste is enough to pile a typical city requires stores and communities to set up collection street six-feet deep, curb to curb, for centers. 500 miles more than the distance Plastic containers 25,000 tons. 400 million a year. Growing rapidly. from Superior to Chicago! Or if - compressed, the way it is inlandfills, Other waste 1 million tons. Composed of wood, deuiolition debris, that much waste would bury a old furniture, clothing, other plastic, etc. 200-acre farm under 30 feet of trash each year. So... Non-municipal waste 3 million tons. Composed of pulp, ash, ind foundry waste. Where Does It All End Up? Most of Wisconsin's solid waste years after the site is closed. When above for approved and nonapproved ends up in the state's 1,100 licensed the owner's responsibility ends, the landfills apply to these closed landfills. A landfill is a place where state takes over maintenance duties. landfills. waste is dumped, compacted and The owner, however, remains liable Unfortunately, waste sometimes is covered with dirt. Covering the trash for any damage that his landfill does dumped along roadsides, on the controls blowing paper, odors, insects to other people or property. "back forty" or in other and rodents. The remaining licensed landfills are nonapproved locations. Except for Of the 1,100 licensed landfills in unengineered or "nonapproved." household wastes discarded on the Wisconsin, only 90 aresanitary They were buiit before we realized the homeowner's property, it's illegal to landfills designed, built and importance of strict environmental discard or incinerate garbage, trash, operated according to state-of-the-art standouts. Most of these facilities are industrial waste, farm chemicals and standards to preventpollution scheduled to be closed by 1999.