Recycling Videos & Curriculum

Students and staff are often asked to sort recycling, organics and trash into their right containers without any real understanding of what happens to these items. Recycling provide a glimpse into what happens to our recycling and why individual student and staff actions matter. View a video below or have students create their own video.

Videos

• The Story of a Cereal Box (10 minutes)
• Dem-Con Recycling Facility (8 minutes)
• How does a Material Recovery Facility (MRF) work? (3 minutes)
  
• Where Does Our Stuff Come From?​ (5 minutes)
  
• What Goes Where S​orting Video (11 minutes)
  
• Dem-Con Recycling Contamination (3 minutes)
• Recycle Often, Recycle Right (2 minutes)
• What is a Landfill? (7 minutes)
• Away: A Zero Waste Journey (5 minutes)
• Waste Management Recycling 101 video series

Curriculum

Successful waste reduction and recycling programs incorporate these topics into school curriculum to sustain efforts and integrate environmental stewardship into the culture of your school.

• Green Strides
• Rec​y​cle Rally
• The Center for Green Schools
• Environmental Protection Agency​