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Dusty Little

Separating Mixtures - 0 views

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    Provides students with some ideas or techniques that might work to separate their mixture of recyclable materials. The website reviews evaporation, distillation, magnetism, and filtration.
Dusty Little

Properties of Common Solid Materials - 0 views

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    This website gives the density, melting, and boiling points of various common solid materials. The students could use this site as they are trying to decide on which physical properties to use to separate recyclable materials from a mixture of trash.
Mark Vogel

Reuse Plastic Bottles - 0 views

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    This site lists ways plastic bottles can be reused. These examples reduce the amount of plastic we use in our daily lives and promote ways to be more friendly with the environment.
Mark Vogel

Seas of Plastic - 0 views

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    This Ted Talk by Charles Moore is an educational video about how plastic is recycled and where it ends up. He explains how our plastic and trash that ends up in the ocean forms the Eastern Garbage Patch. He also provides statistics and how this dilemma affects our environment.
Lindsey Clark

Trash Timeline - 0 views

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    Do you know how long it takes a plastic bottle to decompose? How about a leather shoe? This site gives a fun activity that you can follow and discover just how long it takes for some materials to decompose.
Lindsey Clark

10 Interesting Littering Facts - 0 views

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    Check out some facts about littering to help you understand why recycling is so important to EVERYONE!
Jennifer Neiman

Organizing a Community Recycling Program - 0 views

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    This site give some ideas of how to organize a community recycling program. 
Jennifer Neiman

Recycling Success Stories - Palm Beach, Florida | Community Recycling Success Stories |... - 1 views

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    Recycling success story.  Details the success of a Florida community recycling program.  
Jennifer Neiman

Recycling Success Stories - Beaverton, Oregon | Community Recycling Success Stories | T... - 0 views

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    A recycling success story.  Details of how an Oregon community found success with its recycling program. 
Jennifer Neiman

Recycling: A Component of Strong Community Development | Region 4 | US EPA - 1 views

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    This resource gives reasons why recycling is good for the community. Excellent resource for justifying recycling in the community.
Dusty Little

The Properties Song - 0 views

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    This is a catchy song that will help the students remember the differences between physical and chemical properties. They need to think about various properties in order to determine how materials can be separated during the recycling process.
Mark Vogel

Starting a Recycling Program - 0 views

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    This site has information and considerations when starting a recycling program.
Mark Vogel

Recycle Symbols & Numbers on Plastics - 0 views

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    This video shows the different recycling symbols and provides examples of objects that contain these symbols.
Mark Vogel

Earth 911 More Ideas, Less Waste - 1 views

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    This site has the different categories of objects we can recycle. It also provides how to recycle and where certain objects can be recycled based on your location.
Jennifer Neiman

▶ Single-Stream Recycling -- Leading the Way to Zero Waste - YouTube - 0 views

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    Boulder CO single stream recycling center tour.  Elementary appropriate, the tour is given by an animated aluminum can.  
Jennifer Neiman

▶ Waste Management Single-Stream Recycling: Take a tour of our Philadelphia M... - 0 views

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    Tour of Philadelphia WM single stream recycling facility.  Good images/analogies.  Shows the sorting process for single stream recycling.
Jennifer Neiman

How are plastics recycled? - Curiosity - 1 views

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    Specifically discusses the use of float tanks to sort plastic type by density. Interesting 2:44 video on corn plastics.
Jennifer Neiman

Recycling Symbols on Plastics - What Do Recycling Codes on Plastics Mean - The Daily Green - 0 views

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    Guide to plastic recycling symbols... just what do those numbers mean.
Jennifer Neiman

Recycling 101 - 0 views

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    More on single stream recycling. There are several good video clips on this site as well as flyers and informational items
Jennifer Neiman

How It Works: Inside The Machine That Separates Your Recyclables | Popular Science - 0 views

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    This site explains how single stream recycling separator machines work. Very detailed diagram and explanation.
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