Name: Date: The TRASH MONSTER Environmental Education Program

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1 L Pupil Booklet Name: Date: i/l-kq Fa= The TRASH MONSTER Environmental Education Program

2 1. Solid waste is things we throw away... What is Solid Waste? I such as paper, food scraps, plastics, metals, and glass. I 3. But solid waste is not just worthless trash. That sack is full of natural resources! 4. All products have resource bases. 5. And natural resources also provide the energy to make products and get them to us. of those natural resources-like trees- are renewable. When some are used, more can be planted. 7. Some are nonrenewable -like oil and metals. When they re used, they cannot be replaced. 8. But renewable or nonrenewable, all natural resources are valuable. They should be conserved. Lesson 2 2

3 11. All this solid waste must be picked up and taken somewhere. And that's a big job. First, solid waste is collected. Then, it might be taken to a transfer station and loaded into large trucks. It is finally disposed of in a sanitary landfill. 12. At sanitary landfills, solid 13. Landfills are a safe, clean waste is covered with soil every way to dispose of our solid day. waste. But landfills are filling up too fast. 14. Why? Because we produce too much solid waste...-. \/ 3 Lesson 2

4 ~ 9. ~ 10. Practice Exercise 1 A. For each word, write the letter of the best definition natural resource a. b. 2. renewable C. d. 3. solid waste e. f. -4. conserve 9. h sanitary landfill things we throw away cannot be replaced used to make products can be replaced to waste where waste is disposed of where waste is transferred to large trucks to save B. Circle the letter of the word or phrase that best completes each sentence. 1. Most solid waste today is disposed of in a. open dumps b. transfer stations c. sanitary landfills 2. are a renewable natural resource. a. trees b. metals c. fossil fuels 3. Oil is a natural resource. a. renewable b. nonrenewable c. plentiful 4. In sanitary landfills, solid waste is covered with a layer of soil -. a. every day b. every other day c. once a week 5. All products are made from -. a. plants b. man-made materials c. natural resources 6. At transfer stations, solid waste is -. a. buried b. put in small trucks c. put in large trucks C. For each product, write the letter of the main resource base old calendar - 2. broken refrigerator - 3. banana peel - 4. meat scraps - 5. paper plate - 6. peanut butter jar - 7. leaves a. animals b. fossil fuels c. metals d. plants/trees e. sand - 8. plastic bag frozen dinner tray Lesson 3 shoe box 4

5 = Transfer Legend Landfill Station Recycling Center Bite-Size Candy Company City Hall Grocery Store City Street Highway Highway Number I I I I I J inch = 10 miles What street did Dr. Smith and Dr. Barnes take from the Landfill to City Hall? The Recycling Center is on the corner of which two streets? What streets should the manager of the Grocery Store drive on to take all the returned bottles to the Recycling Center? What streets are the shortest way from the Transfer Station to the Landfill? Draw the route on the map. How many miles is it from the Transfer Station to the Landfill? (Use your ruler to find out.) What streets should the delivery truck from the Bite-Size Candy Company take to deliver the candy to the Grocery Store? 5 Lesson 3

6 Why is Solid Waste a Problem? We are usinn un our natural resources. 1. Nature never wastes natural resources. In nature, natural resources are used over and over again. 2. But people waste natural resources. They buy products... use them.,. then throw them away. The natural resources in the products are buried in the landfill and lost forever. We are nollutinn our environment. I I 3. Solid waste can be unsightly. 4. Solid waste can be unhealthy. It can end up as ugly litter. It can pollute our air and water. 5. Solid waste can be unsafe. It can cause accidents and fires. We are running out of nearby land for landfills. 6. A lot of land is needed for 7. So trash trucks must drive landfills. But land close to towns further to landfills. This takes is expensive and hard to find. more time and gasoline. 8. Many people don t want landfills near their homes. So what do we do with our solid waste? Lesson 4 6

7 Activity Page Use the bar graph to answer the following questions: 1. What percentage of solid waste is textiles, rubber, and plastics? glass? metal? food and miscellaneous waste? paper? 2. What item makes up most of the solid waste? 3. Metal is 10% of the solid waste and glass is 5%. How much of the solid waste is metal and glass together? % Part B Willie, Wanda, Waldo, and Winny wanted to know how much solid waste they produced. So one day they weighed everything they threw away. Willie had 5 pounds of trash. Wanda had 4% pounds. Waldo had 2 pounds. Winny had 21/2 pounds. Work Space 1. What is the total amount of solid waste they threw away? What is the average amount one person throws away every day? What is the average amount one person throws away in a week? What is the average amount one person throws away in a year (365 days)? 7 Lesson 4

8 ~ 3. ~ 4. Practice Exercise 2 A. For each word, write the letter of the best definition. 1. unsightly a. all our surroundings b. long-lasting - 2. pollute c. not pleasing to look at d. to make unsightly, unhealthy, unsafe environment e. to make more of f. dangerous unsafe g. solid waste not in its proper place - 5. litter B. Circle the letter of the word or phrase that best completes each sentence. 1. waste natural resources. a. People b. Trees c. Animals 2. In sanitary landfills, we natural resources. a. conserve b. bury c. burn 3. The safest way to dispose of solid waste is to -. a. leave it on the ground b. burn it c. bury it in sanitary landfills 4. Our natural resources will last longer if we them. a. pollute b. use c. conserve 5. Solid waste can the air and water. a. pollute b. renew c. clean up 6. We are our natural resources by throwing so much away. a. recycling b. wasting c. conserving C. Write a short answer to each of the following questions. 1. Why shouldn t we use products only once and then throw them away? 2. Why shouldn t we just dump solid waste on the ground?.. 3. Why is it hard to find new places for landfills? Lesson 5 8

9 Trash Monster Word Search Game 1. Trees are a natural 2. We shouldn t feed the 3. Natural resources provide the Monster. to make products. 4. is discarded materials and products 5. If we our natural resources, they will last longer. 6. Solid waste is put into large trucks at a transfer 7. Solid waste is buried in a sanitary 8. Solid waste not in a container is called 9. The main resource base of an aluminum can is 10. We shouldn t pollute our 11. Plants are a natural resource. 12. Metals are a natural resource. 13. Oil, coal, and natural gas are fuels. 14. Solid waste not properly disposed of can cause air and water 9 Lesson 5

10 ~~ ~~.. How Can We Help Solve Solid Waste Problems? can be made into new Lesson 6 10

11 Practice Exercise 3 A. For each item, circle a. or b. for the product that produces the least amount of solid waste. Wl B. Circle the letter of the word or phrase that best completes each sentence. 1. Organic solid waste can be to produce energy. a. disposed of b. mixed with water c. burned 4. Food scraps, grass, and leaves can be used to make a. plastics b. compost c. newspaper To help solve our solid waste problems, we must reduce the amount of we produce. a. solid waste b. natural resources c. food We should buy products that we can a. reuse b. use only once c. burn When used materials are made into new products, they are a. recycled b. wasted c. buried At a resource recovery plant, can be recovered from solid waste. a. water b. energy c. soil C. Write one way each item could be reused before it s thrown away. 1. egg carton 4. magazine 2. coffee can with lid 5. broken radio - 3. small paper bag 6. old blanket 11 Lesson 7

12 Activity Page What would you do? 1. You are with your family at a baseball game. You are all enjoying hot dogs, peanuts, soft drinks, and ice cream while you root for your favorite team. When the game is over, your mom and dad put all the food wrappers, drink cups, and peanut shells underneath the seats. So does everyone else in the ball park, it seems. What would you do? 2. You are helping your sister clean the garage. The work bench is a mess! Tools, nails, bolts, nuts, wire, and wood are scattered all over,. You notice some coffee cans and some jars in the trash. What would you do? 3. You and your brother are in the grocery store. You put a few things in your basket, then come to the cereal department. Your brother Wants to buy the snack pack cereals. The snack pack has ten little cardboard boxes wrapped in plastic. What would you do? 4. You and your friend are walking home from school. You are talking about the Solid Waste program you are studying in school. You notice that your next-door neighbor s trash can is overflowing with glass bottles and jars, aluminum cans, and newspapers. What would you do? 5. You and your family are sitting at the dinner table. Your mother mentions that the trash collection bill has gone up again. Your father wants to know why it costs so much to take a little bit of trash away. What would you do? 6. Your town is being invaded by the trash monster! You are an expert on the 4-R Solid Waste Reducing Plan. The news director of the local TV station calls you and asks you to appear on the 6:OO news to tell the town what to do. He or she says you are the town s last hope! What would you do?.. Lesson 8 12

13 Ways to Help Soloe Solid Waste Problems Revise Reuse Th Why I should do these things: Whv it might be hard to do these things:..$... '.'.. ',, : I t Thinas -- I've decided to do: Lesson 8

14 a Review Directions: Fill in the crossword puzzle by completing the sentences below. Across 2. Oil, metals, and plants are examples of Another name for trash and garbage is A sanitary landfill is the final place for the of solid waste. 10. Trees are a natural resource. 14. At a station small trucks unload their trash into large trucks. 15. Litter pollutes the land by making it look 18. To make new products from used materials is to 19. To control the Trash Monster we must the amount of solid waste we produce. 20. We can energy by burning organic solid waste. 21. Oil and metals are natural resources. Down 1. Solid waste pollution is because it can cause fires. 3. Solid waste other than garbage is called 4. At a sanitary - solid waste is covered with soil. 5. Pollution makes our environment unsafe, unsightly, and 6. Too much solid waste can pollute our ~. 8. Food that we throw away is called ~. 11. Every product has a main resource ~. 12. Organic solid waste can be burned to produce We when we use natural resources wisely. 16. Solid waste not properly disposed of is called You can ~ margarine tub by making it into a pet dish. 18. To help reduce solid waste we should - our buying habits Lesson 9

15 Glossary aluminum compost conserve consume disposal energy energy recovery environment fossil fuels garbage inorganic litter natural resources nonrenewable o&n dump organic pollute product productlon pyrolysis recover recycle recycling center reduce renewable resource base resource recovery reuse revise sanitary landfill solid waste transfer station trash unhealthy unsafe unsightly a strong, light, silver-colored metal made chiefly from bauxite ore a mixture of soil and organic material, such as leaves and food scraps, used as a soil conditioner to use natural resources wisely to use up something getting rid of solid waste by burying or burning it the ability to do work; power changing solid waste to fuel all the surroundings of a living thing oil, coal, and natural gas food that we throw away materials not made from plants and animals or from carbon compounds; examples are glass and metal solid waste that has not been properly disposed of materials found in nature, such as land, forests, water, air, minerals, fossil fuels, etc. cannot be naturally regrown or replaced; examples are metal ore and oil a place where solid waste is left uncovered on the ground materials made from plants and animals or from carbon compounds; examples are paper, wood, food, and plastic to make the environment unsightly, unhealthy, or unsafe something that is made by man or nature making products baking organic solid waste without oxygen to recover energy to get back, to regain to collect used products (usually paper, metals, and glass) and make them into new products a place where items are brought for recycling to make smaller can be replaced the natural resource from which a product is made, such as trees, sand, etc. getting usable materials and energy from solid waste to use again to change a place where solid waste is disposed of by spreading it in thin layers and covering it with soil at the end of each day trash and garbage a place where solid waste is loaded into large trucks or railroad cars, then taken to landfills for disposal all solid waste, except garbage not good for you dangerous not pleasing to look at; ugly OSP 306M R

16 .. Do you know. The Trash ivk"er Environmental Education Program was developed by SWRL Educational Research and Development, a public, nonprofit organization, under contract from the California State Solid Waste Management Board. The program is provided to schools at no cost. 16 Printed on 100% post-con'sumer recycled paper

17 Home Information Leaflet The TRASH MONSTER Environmental Education Program

18 2 Printed on 100% Dost-consumer recvcled DaDer.. The TRASH MONSTER Environmental Education Program Your child has been learning about the Trash Monster, and we would like you to share in this learning experience. Most solid waste is collected and taken to sanitary landfills for disposal. But landfills are rapidly filling up. And it is difficult to find new sites because people don t want landfills near their homes. But it is not just land that we are using up. Our natural resources are being depleted. It takes trees to make paper, mineral ore to manufacture metal, and petroleum to produce plastics. Some natural resources, trees for instance, can be replaced, although not as fast as we use them. But many natural resources, such as mineral ore and fossil fuels, cannot be renewed, and they will not last forever. The Trash Monster People have created the Trash Monster by feeding it too much solid waste (trash and garbage). On the average, each person in this country throws away about 3% pounds of solid waste every day. That means that a family of 4 throws out about 100 pounds of trash and garbage every week. Multiply that by the number of families on your block, in your city, in your state, in this country, and you can see that we have a gigantic amount of solid waste that must be disposed of. Excessive amounts of solid waste hurt our environment in other ways, too. Trash often ends up on the ground instead of in trash cans. This litter not only looks bad, but it also can cause air and water pollution.

19 Controlling the Trash Monster If we are to control the Trash Monster, we ve got to provide less food for it. And we can with the 4-R Solid Waste Reducing Plan -Revise, Reuse, Recycle, Recover. What You Can Do Your child has learned a great deal about the Trash Monster and about how to control it. And these lessons can be reinforced at home. Here s how you can help. Look at and share schoolwork. During the two-week program, your child has seen a filmstrip, done practice exercises, and participated in many class activities. Some of these activities are included in the pupil booklet your child will be bringing home. Look at and discuss the booklet with your child, and encourage your child to share with you and the rest of the family what he or she has learned at school. If we revise our buying habits by cutting down on the number of over-packaged and disposable items we buy, we will create much less solid waste. And we can reuse many things instead of tossing them in the trash after just one use. The TRASH MONSTER Environmental Education Program We can also feed the Trash Monster less by recycling newspaper, cardboard, glass, and metal-common items in most everyone s trash. Recycling, which means processing used materials so that they can be made into new products, uses much less energy, slows down the depletion of natural resources, and creates less solid waste for landfills. Finally, we can use organic solid waste-food, paper, plants, plastics-to recover energy. These materials can actually be burned to generate electricity, or they can be processed into fuels. 3 Encourage good habits. Your child has learned the 4-R Solid Waste Reducing Plan -Revise, Reuse, Recycle, Recover-and has decided how he or she can help with solid waste problems. Discuss the Reducing Plan with your child, and then plan ways that your family could help with solid waste problems, using the checklist on the back

20 How 1,, have decided to help with solid waste problems Now check ways your family can practice The 4 8 Solid Waste Reducing Plan to help solve solid waste problems. Reuise buying habits. For example: Buy products with less packaging - (fruits and vegetables not prepackaged, one large cereal box Instead of seueral individual ones) Use returnable and refillable containers (returnable bottles, refillable razors, lighters) Carry small purchases home without a paper bag (Perhaps bring a bag with you that you can carry purchases home in.) Other: Reuse whatever you can. For example: - Use an old T-shirt as a dust cloth Use food scraps and yard clippings in a compost pile Give used items to charity instead of throwing them away Other: Recycle. The easiest items to separate and take to the recycling center are: Newspapers Corrugated cardboard Aluminum cans, dinner trays, lawn furniture Clean glass bottles and jars without caps and labels (Check the yellow pages or the Chamber of Commerce for recycling centers in your community.) Recover energy. Support the development of modern resource recovery plants in your community The Trash Monster Environmental Education Program war developed by SWRL Educational Research and Development, a public, nonprofit organization, under contract from the California State Solid Waste Management Board The program 1s provided to schools at no cost OSP 306M R

21 Pretest Name: Date: The TRASH MONSTER Environmental Education Program Directions: Read each item carefully. Then circle the letter that best completes each sentence. Section A. Solid Waste Concepts Section B. (continued) 1. Plastics are made from a. sand b. animals c. fossil fuels 2. An example of a renewable natural resource is a a. metal b. fossil fuel c. plant 3. A nonrenewable natural resource a. can be replaced b. cannot be replaced c. cannot be wasted jl 4. In California, most solid waste is 5 disposed of in 0 a a. sanitary landfills E - b. opendumps 2 c. incinerators 2 0? N j $ 5 3 d 5. When we make a product, we produce a. no solid waste b. natural resources c. solid waste Section B. Solid Waste Problems 6. Natural resources are wasted by 9. Our supply of natural resources is getting low because we a. recycle aluminum products b. use products once, then throw them away c. conserve fossil fuels 10. It is hard to find land for landfills because -. a. they must be in a canyon b. people don't want landfills near their homes c. they must be near water Section C. Solutions to Solid Waste Problems 11. We create less solid waste when we a. reuse things b. buy paper plates c. use up natural resources 12. To reduce solid waste, we should buy products that are _. a. used once, then thrown away b. made of plastics c. recyclable 13. Recycling means to P -: a. clean up litter " b. make new products from old material $' c. burn solid waste 2 a c 14. Some solid waste can be burned to 0 produce +. a. plastic a P rp b. food 0 c. electricity 2 a. people $ b. animals 4 c. nature d Producing too much solid waste can! 1 a. pollution I" b. resource bases 3 c. a clean environment 15. To solve our solid waste problems, we 2.- r - must -. 6 p. a. reduce the amountto1~ soliawasfe We 0 8. A si~ctean ~piace-to get rid of 2 h solid waste is produce a. a.sanitary landfill b. increase the amount of solid waste we b. an open dump produce. = ri.,nr r~ clnw dnwn c;lnitartj IandfillG 8 % c 0-0

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23 ~ Pssttest Name: Date: The TRASH MONSTER Environmental Education Program Directions: Read each item carefully. Then circle the letter that best completes each sentence. Section A. Solid Waste Concepts 1. The resource base of a paper towel is 9. A problem with sanitary landfills is that a. a fossil fuel b. a tree c. an animal a. litter blows around b. they cause air pollution c. they bury natural resources 2. An example of a nonrenewable natural 10. To make sanitary landfills, we need a lot of resource is a. an animal a. trees b. a metal b. land c. a tree c. pollution a 3. Natural resources are valuable and should be a. conserved b. wasted c. buried g 4. At a sanitary landfill, solid waste is 0 a a. loaded from small trucks into large trucks - b. burned m m c. covered with soil u1 r I_,? F: E 8 F g, 4 B 2 j P s > 5. Sanitary landfills are filling up too fast because a. nature wastes natural resources b. we conserve natural resources c. we produce too much solid waste Section B. Solid Waste Problems 6. Solid waste not in its proper place is called a. environment b. litter c. conservation.-&... h-e-n.-.a product rs made, natural! resources are 0 2 a. used up.p k b. conserved 8 c. increased 8. Dumping solid waste on the ground causes m 8 s a. conservation b. pollution c. a clean environment Section C. Solutions to Solid Waste Problems 11. We can reduce solid waste by a. burying it b. buying paper plates and cups c. reusing products 12. When used materials are made into new products, they are a. recycled b. buried c. polluted or~ani_c...s oli a.w ast e.. C-a.n.. ~e.b.ur.nedto.. mak.e. b % n 7) To reduce solid waste, we should buy h " products a. without extra packaging b. that are used once, then thrown away 20 c. made from paper Y c m 0 n a. compost c b. fuel -0 2 c. newspaper.- C 15. To help solve our solid waste problems, we must. a. stop making products b. use up natural resources c. reduce solid waste c

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29 8. cereal box 9. clothes hanger 10. corrugated box cardboard lld cotton shirt

30 12. egg shells 13. flowers 14. gift box and wrapping Paper 15. glass bottle

31 16. glass jar with lid 17. glass j 18. grocery sack 19. leather shoes

32 20. leaves 21. magazine 22. mail

33 24. meat scraps j 25. milk carton 26. mirror 27. newspaper

34 28. nylon pantyhose 29. paper towel tube 30. phonograph record 31. plastic bottle

35 32. plastic bag 33. plastic toy 4. potato peels styrsfoam 0 ~ container

36 36. tin can 37. toaster 38. toothbrush animals

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