Recycling Links for Parents,
Teachers, Students & Kids
This webpage contains many links to activities and curricula on
recycling, waste
and composting. Please report any missing information, mistakes or
additions. We wish to keep this webpage as up to date and accurate as
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Tours for Student Groups
 The listing below includes recycling and manufacturing
facilities, transfer
stations, and reuse centers that will host tours for student groups.
This list doesn't include all possible touring opportunities; please
contact your community's recycling coordinator for a facility in your
surrounding area.
- A BFI Recycling Processing Facility in Brockton.
Contact Fred Morrow at 508-580-1511 or Terry Grady at 978-649-7564.
- A BFI Recycling Processing Facility in Hookset, NH.
Contact Mark Gelinas at 603-699-2282 or Terry Grady at 978-649-7564.
- Conigliaro
Industries in Framingham. Contact Willie Kuczmiec at 508-872-9668.
This facility recycles a wide range of materials.
- Got Books? of
North Reading helps keep books out of the waste stream. This
facility receives and handles thousands of donated books that are then
reused and resold at its onsite Charity Book Sale retail operation or
online. Contact Fernando Morales at 978-664-6555.
- Intregrated Processing Facility (IPF) at UMass
Amherst. Contact Kathy Rossi at 413-545-9615. This facility is a
recycling center for the
University.
- Leicester Recycling Center in Leicester.
Contact Ruth Kaminski, Recycling Coordinator at 508-892-3121.
- Materials Recycling Facility in Springfield. Contact
Justine Fallon, DEP, at 413-755-2286.
- Northampton
Landfill in Northampton. Contact Ned Huntley at 413-587-1570 x107.
- Pioneer Valley Resource Recovery in Agawam. Contact
Meg Morris
at 518, 434-1227. This facility is an incinerator and limits groups to
20 students, no younger than 3rd grade.
- Pittsfield Resource Recovery in Pittsfield. Contact
Meg Morris
at 518, 434-1227. This facility is an incinerator and limits groups to
15 students, no younger than 4th grade.
- SEMASS Resource Recovery Facility in Rochester.
Contact Monica Maranhas at
508-791-8900, Ext. 4411. This facility is an incinerator.
- South Hadley Landfill in South Hadley. Contact Angelo
Ortisi, General Manager, at 413-535-3095.
- Town of Bourne Integrated Solid Waste Management
(ISWM) in
Bourne. This facility has both a landfill and recycling center. Each
November, ISWM conducts an open house at the facility as part of
America Recycles Day. In addition to tours, residents can meet with
staff and view landfill and recycling equipment. Contact Gordon Martin
at 781-235-7600.
- Wheelabrator
Millbury in Millbury. Contact Sharon
Crinto at 508-791-8900. This facility is
an incinerator.
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Recycling Activities & Curricula
American Plastics
Council's Teaching Plastics, Teaching Science, Science Based Lesson
Plans ~ For Grades K through 12
CET's
Mercury (the Element!) In Our Environment: Problems and Solutions
(PDF) ~ For Grades 4 through 8
CT
DEP's Composting Videos ~ Non-specific Age Groups
WI
DNR's Environmental Education for Kids' Recycling & Beyond ~
Non-specific Age Groups
MA DEP's
Activity Sheets for Kids ~ For Grades K through 12
MA DEP's
Solid Waste Management Resource Guide for Massachusetts Schools
(PDF) ~ For Grades K through 12
MN OEA's
EE Resources for Multi-Cultural Education ~ Non-specific Age Groups
NAAEE's
EE-Link ~ Non-specific Age Groups
OR
DEQ's Solid Waste and Recycling Education ~ Non-specific Age
Groups
PROP's
Vermicomposting Lesson Plans ~ For Middle School Grades
Public
Broadcasting Service's Landfills: A Solid Waste Management Plan ~
For Grades 6 through 8
Technical
Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry's Paper University ~
Non-specific Age Groups
 US EPA's
The Quest for Less ~ For Grades K through 6
US
EPA's Case of the Broken Loop (PDF) ~ For Grades 4 through 6
US
EPA's Follow that Trail (PDF) ~ For Grades K through 3
US
EPA's Office
of Solid Waste (OSW) Educational Resources Website ~ For Grades K
through 12
US EPA's
Planet Protectors Create Less Waste in the First Place (PDF) ~ For
Grades K through 3
US
EPA's Trash and Climate Change (PDF) ~ Non-specific Age Groups
US
EPA's Waste and Recycling Curriculum Resources ~ Non-specific Age
Groups
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Recycling Links for Children
Planet
Pals ~ Non-specific Age Groups
US
EPA's Planet
Protectors Club for Kids ~ Non-specific Age Groups
US EPA's Environmental
Kids Club ~ For Grades
K through 4
US EPA's Student
Center ~ For Grades 5 through 8
US EPA's High
School Environmental Center
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 Publications
The following is a list of US EPA publications that you can
order.
Click on the Office
of Solid Waste Publications
page. Publications are listed alphabetically. Use the tabs at the
top
of the page and then fill out the form after selecting titles at the
bottom of page (a form for each letter of alphabet). You are limited to
ten different publications per request.
US
EPA's Adventures of the Garbage Gremlin
US
EPA's Case of the Broken Loop (PDF) ~ For Grades 4 through 6
US
EPA's Follow that Trail (PDF) ~ For Grades K through 3
US EPA's
Planet Protectors Create Less Waste in the First Place (PDF) ~ For
Grades K through 3
US
EPA's Trash and Climate Change (PDF) ~ Non-specific Age Groups
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 Environmental
Videos
Here's
my Question: Where Does my Garbage Go? By Bullfrog Films.
"Green
Team" Video Library (PDF)
Recycling
Videos by BigKidsVideo.com
Recycling
with Worms By Bullfrog Films.
The Springfield MRF Video, produced by the MRF Advisory Board. Contact
Justine Fallon, DEP, at 413.755.2286.
The
Story of Garbage by Waste Management
Other Tools
US EPA's
Healthy School Environments Assessment Tool (Healthy SEAT) brings
together all of US EPA's regulatory and voluntary programs for schools
into a single free software tool that any school system can use to
establish and manage comprehensive school facitly assessment
programs. This tool is designed to be customized by states
and school systems to reflect their own priorities and implement US EPA
programs as well as track the status of facility conditions across all
of their schools.
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