After racking my brain for a topic for my blog exploration, I stumbled upon one this morning while I was researching lesson plans. I found a website titled Brain Pop and signed up for a free trial membership. I like the structure of the website and the interactive tools they provided for learners within the lesson plans they offer. In order to view the videos and play the games you must have a membership or a trial membership. I was hoping I could embed the video, but I wasn't able to.
My little environmental stewardship project has ties to the lesson titled “Who Can Waste the Least?” which was written by Rachel Zindler. You can check out the lesson if you'd like:
The challenge lies in reducing personal waste by recycling, reducing, and reusing. The lesson plan requires students to carry the personal trash that they create for one day with them in a garbage bag. I’m going to talk to my family about the project at dinner tonight and ask each of them to participate in the challenge along with me. I plan to collect my trash tomorrow while I have a feeling that by husband and sons will choose to collect on Saturday or Sunday. I think it will be really interesting to actually see the trash that one person collects. For the sake of the authenticity, I am going to collect items that I normally recycle. As a family, I think we gotten a bit lazy in our recycling efforts (especially since we have to load them up and drop them off) and I’m hoping this activity prompts us to do a little bit better as we learn more about waste managment along the way.
I'm curious about the recycling habits of others. Do you have curbside recycling in your community? If not, where do you take recyclables?
I'm also interested in any predictions you may have regarding the trash I'll be lugging around tomorrow. Until then..............
I live in Valparaiso, IN, where our city recycles as part of the garbage service. We have a choice of three different sized containers - an open box, a small wheeled can or a large wheeled can. We can throw paper, plastic and glass all in the same container and the city picks it up on garbage day. It REALLY irritates me that some people don't recycle when the city does all the work for you - especially since we're paying for it anyway, why not do it? We recycle over 40% of our trash. I think it's great.
ReplyDeleteI predict you'll feel good about doing it, and wish you didn't have to work so hard....I can actually understand why people don't recycle more when they have to do the lugging and storing until they have time to lug:) Good for you.
I think it so awesome that you have such a great city recycling program, especially when city budgets are shrinking! In our neighborhood we pay for our trash pick up and the company was picking up recycables on only 1 street. Come to think of it, I haven't noticed them doing it in a while though.
ReplyDeleteAfter we totalled our trash tonight, we found that 50% was recycables which convinced me that lugging it around to the site for drop off is worth it. Thanks for the encouragement!