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Garbage and recycling today
Websites to visit
Website 1
What can Oliver, a cartoon character, find in a week's worth of garbage?
Website 2
What happens to garbage after you throw it away? Find out where garbage goes and how to reduce, reuse and recycle.
Website 3
What's the problem with plastic and how can you help?
Website 4
Find out about waste and recycling with interactive stories and quizzes. (Click on "Waste Not Want Not" or "Tale of Two Soup Cans" and click on images in each scene for more facts.)
Website 5
Follow a drinks can through the recycling process.
Website 6
Find out how garbage is sorted at a recycling facility.
Website 7
See how paper is recycled.
Website 8
Listen to a podcast with lots of ideas for how to reduce, re-use and recycle, with quiz questions.
Website 9
How plastic is recycled and turned into new products. (Click on the playlist to find clips about paper, cans, glass and other materials.)
Recycling games and activities
Websites to visit
Website 1
Get upcycling and make something new out of garbage. (Browse the playlist for ideas.)
Website 2
See how you can make your own recycled paper at home.
Website 3
How to make your own compost pile. (Click on "Next".)
Website 4
Garbage or recycling? Find out in an online game.
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