For Instructors
Created by admin on 21 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Looking for activities to go along with Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash? Consider some of these:
Mathematics and Sciences
• Weigh and keep track of how much garbage you produce.
• Figure out how much garbage is produced by one student, one class, Parkland, C-U, etc.
• Tour a local landfill, recycling center, waste treatment center.
• Swab trash and grow cultures.
• Place a four-sided bin in the college center for a week and ask people to discard used paper in it. Survey: How much is recyclable? How much has only been used on one side?
• Research whether it is more energy-efficient to turn off lights or computers, or leave them on.
Arts and Communication
• Take photographs of trash. See www.chrisjordan.com
• Create useable art out of found objects.
• Make a video of all the trucks going to the landfill and play it on a continuous loop in the college center.
Social Sciences
• Research why there is no bottle bill in Illinois.
Business and Agriculture
• Start a compost pile and sell/donate the resulting organic material to gardeners.
Miscellaneous
• Make a display of garbage picked up.
• Sell fluorescent light bulbs, reusable canvas grocery bags as a fundraiser.
• Provide a tray of one-sided paper for students to use.
• Give students extra credit for turning in assignments on reused paper.
Refuse, Rubbish & Recycling – a Small Selection of Titles from Parkland Library
Title is followed by call number. Find more titles by searching our catalog.
Cast-off recast: recycling and the creative transformation of mass-produced objects by Timothy Corrigan Correll and Patrick Arthur Polk, editors. GN406 .C37 1999
Cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things by William McDonough & Michael Braungart. TD794.5 .M395 2002
Deceit and denial: the deadly politics of industrial pollution by Gerald E. Markowitz. RA566 .M265 2002
Design e²: the economies of being environmentally conscious. Director, Tad Fettig; produced by kontentreal, LLC. GE195 .D47 2006 Video disc
Economics of waste by Richard C. Porter. HD4483 .P67 2002
Garbage and recycling by Mitchell Young, ed. TD791 .G37 2007
Gone tomorrow: the hidden life of garbage by Heather Rogers. HD4483 .R64 2005
High tech trash: digital devices, hidden toxics, and human health by Elizabeth Grossman. TD799.85 .G76 2006
Illinois Dead Animal Disposal Act. Administered by the Illinois Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Welfare. KFI1568 .A3 2007
Recycling and the politics of urban waste by Matthew Gandy. HD4482 .G36 1994
Simply green giving: create beautiful gift wrapping, tags, and handmade treasures from everyday materials by Danny Seo. TT160 .S374 2006
Waste and Want: a social history of trash by Susan Strasser. HD4482 .S77 1999
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