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These resources will assist you in teaching your students about the waste we generate in our schools, homes, and communities—and what we can all do to make a difference! From classroom activities, to starting a school electronics recycling program, these materials will help you and your students learn what we can do to reduce and better manage waste in the world around us. Many of these resources are provided in both English and Spanish.
Basic Facts about Waste
Provides information about the amount and types of wastes produced by households, businesses, and industrial and manufacturing processes. Also includes information on how to reduce the amount of solid waste generated in our schools, homes, and communities.
Composting & Recycling
Provides links to general information about recycling and composting, as well as detailed information on how to set up a school recycling program.
Curriculum & Activities
Provides tools and resources for teachers and youth leaders including project ideas, games, clip art, mapping tools, and other educational materials.
Student Awards & Grants
Provides information on awards, grants, and scholarships available to students through government agencies, as well as private organizations.
Tools to Reduce Waste in Schools
Tools to Reduce Waste in Schools provides schools, school districts, and school business officials with information on reducing, reusing, and recycling your waste.
Teach English, Teach about the Environment (PDF) (133 pp, 1.6MB, about PDF)
This curriculum will help you teach English to adult students while introducing basic concepts about the environment and individual environmental responsibility. These concepts can help the newly-arrived be part of cleaner and healthier communities by understanding and practicing the “3Rs” of solid waste management — reduce, reuse, recycle.
Keep Your Paws Off Mercury
Clancy the Mercury Detecting Dog, EPA, and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency teamed up to create the Keep Your Paws Off Mercury campaign to teach students across the country about mercury and its dangers. The cornerstone of the Keep Your Paws Off Mercury campaign is an educational video that shows students where mercury can be found in schools and what to do if they see it.
Climate Change – What You Can Do at School
Students, educators and school administrators can all play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This site provides a directory of some education and action planning resources to help you.
Safe Chemical Management in Schools page has many of the materails from the now ended Schools Chemical Cleanout Campaign (SC3).
Eco-Schools USA 
Learn the benefits of joining Eco-Schools, an internationally acclaimed program that provides a framework to help educators integrate sustainable principles throughout their schools and curriculum
