Recycling Links:
E School Today
Waste management: https://eschooltoday.com/learn/what-is-waste/
Plastic Waste: https://eschooltoday.com/learn/plastic-waste/
Kids Earth -- Life on Land Articles
Recycling: https://kids.earth.org/life-on-land/a-kid-friendly-guide-to-recycling/
Ducksters
Land Pollution: https://www.ducksters.com/science/environment/land_pollution.php
Recycling: https://www.ducksters.com/science/environment/recycling_for_kids.php
Links Specific to Vermont
Slide Show From Addison County Solid Waste Management District:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ivTq0_Qbko4K6rmO_IelDDgf8IEz2VIh/view?usp=drive_link
Why Reduce & Reuse?
https://www.addisoncountyrecycles.org/recycling/reduce-reuse/overview
Addison County Solid Waste Management District
https://www.addisoncountyrecycles.org/
Act 148: Vermont’s Universal Recycling Law
https://www.addisoncountyrecycles.org/food-scraps/recovery/universal-recycling-law
Addison County Printable Resources
https://www.addisoncountyrecycles.org/about/resources/downloadable
How Can I Waste Less?
https://dec.vermont.gov/waste-management/solid/materials-mgmt/how-can-i-waste-less
Vermont Digger Article on Vermont Right to Repair Law
https://vtdigger.org/2023/03/23/as-the-right-to-repair-debate-comes-to-montpelier-lawmakers-face-a-flood-of-opposition-from-national-interest-groups/
How Recycling Works: Behind the Scenes at the MRF
How Does Japan Deal WIth Garbage?
How the Dutch take out the trash?
The Ocean Cleanup Project | The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation
Plastic bricks in Kenya – Nzambi Matee - Young Champion of the Earth 2020
Building Schools out of Trash
General Links about Trash
EPIC Book: Plastic, Ahoy!: Investigating the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
https://www.getepic.com/app/read/8987
Why it matters: Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG 12)
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/12_Why-It-Matters-2020.pdf
Why it matters: Life Below Water (SDG 14)
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/14_Why-It-Matters-2020.pdf
FACT SHEET: PLASTICS IN THE OCEAN (Earthday.org)
https://www.earthday.org/fact-sheet-plastics-in-the-ocean/
In Depth PLASTIC IN THE OCEAN (World Wildlife Organization)
https://www.worldwildlife.org/magazine/issues/fall-2019/articles/plastic-in-the-ocean
Infographic: Life Below Water
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Goal-14-infographic.pdf
10 Shocking Infographics About Plastic Waste In The Oceans
https://www.reducereuserecycle.co.uk/greenarticles/10_shocking_infographics_about_plastic_waste_in_the_oceans.php
National Geographic Education:
Great Pacific Garbage Patch: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-pacific-garbage-patch/
Landfills: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/landfills/
VIDEOS:
Ocean Plastics: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/ocean-plastics/
Tracking Plastics from Sea to Source: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/tracking-plastics-sea-source/
Kids Earth -- Life on Land Articles
Recycling: https://kids.earth.org/life-on-land/a-kid-friendly-guide-to-recycling/
Plastic Roads: https://kids.earth.org/life-on-land/plastic-roads/
Plastic Litter in the Ocean: https://kids.earth.org/life-on-land/plastic-litter-in-ocean-will-triple-by-2040/
How Other Countries Handle Their Trash
https://www.trashboxilllc.com/post/how-other-countries-handle-their-trash
What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050 (PDF Infographic)
https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/429851552939596362-0200022019/original/WhataWaste2Revisedversion.pdf
Countries with the Most Interesting Waste Sorting Culture ( Waste 4 Change)
https://waste4change.com/blog/countries-interesting-waste-sorting-culture/