Curated Video
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Miss Palomine talks about the importance of reduce, reuse, recycle and gives examples of the benefits of each.
Curated Video
Why I Recycle
Miss Palomine explains why recycling is so important. She explains that recycling saves trees. She also talks about other ways to protect natural resources.
Curated Video
Reuse and Recycle
Miss Palomine sorts her garbage into recyclable and nonrecyclable items. She then explains to the student that another way we can help the Earth is to reuse, and she provides examples.
Curated Video
How Items are Reused and Recycled
How Items are Reused and Recycled explores how various items are reused and recycled and explains how waste may be appropriately disposed of to prevent unnecessary harm to the environment.
Curated Video
Types of Pollution
Types of Pollution discusses the dangers of pollution by reviewing the four main types and examples of each.
Curated Video
Recycle It
A video entitled “Recycle It” describes ways to protect the environment by recycling items.
Curated Video
Pollution in Your Community
“Pollution in Your Community” explores types of land, water, and air pollution.
Schooling Online
Lucy Walker's Waste Land - Overall Plot Summary
Can art really change people’s lives? Join us as we follow Vik Muniz’s artistic adventure into Brazil’s biggest dumpsite - Jardim Gramacho. There he will engage the help of several ‘catadores’ (recyclable material pickers) to make big,...
Schooling Online
Lucy Walker's Waste Land - Part 3 Summary
After the shocking crime at the headquarters for the Association of Pickers, the catadores’ spirits are lifted by their amazing progress in the studio. But the hour of truth is approaching: how much will the portraits sell for? Vik...
Schooling Online
Lucy Walker's Waste Land - Part 2 Summary
Vik and Fabio select their portrait candidates from among the catadores. Inspiration for the project starts to flow as the catadores embrace the process. When Vik gathers the catadores in his studio, the teamwork begins and a masterpiece...
Schooling Online
Lucy Walker's Waste Land - Part 1 Summary
Brazilian-born artist Vik Muniz has made it big in the US. Now he’s returning to Brazil for his next project: a portrait series using garbage. Watch as Vik enters Brazil’s biggest landfill and meets the people who work there: the...
Schooling Online
Lucy Walker's Waste Land - Context
How did a British filmmaker fall in love with landfills? Waste Land is Lucy Walker’s love letter to Brazil’s most resourceful people - the catadores. Join us to find out what inspired her and how she linked up with Brazilian artist Vik...
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Pollutants
It classifies pollutants based on different criteria and explains the type of hazard that they cause.
Restoration Planet
Youth-led River Cleanup in Ecuador
This inspiring youth-led river cleanup takes place on the Rio Carrizal in Ecuador. These young and passionate environmentalists invited us to join them, kayaking down this small river near Ecuador's coast. Plastic that ends up in the...
Next Animation Studio
Animals colonizing islands of floating trash, causing havoc
Dubbed ‘neopelagic communities’, armies of coastal species are hitching intercontinental rides on floating islands of plastic trash.
msvgo
An Introduction to Garbage
It talks about waste/garbage, identifies solid and liquid wastes and classifies them as biodegradable and non-biodegradable.
But Why
Garbage in the Sea
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a huge area of ocean where hundreds of millions of tons of plastic garbage floats, brought there by a swirling ocean current. Much of the waste comes from single use items like plastic bags, straws, and...
Sustainable Business Consulting
Waste, Packaging, Recycling & Compost Case Studies
Case studies of companies saving money through reducing waste and packaging as well as implementing recycling and composting programs
Espresso Media
Living with Garbage: A Month in the Life
In this video, a couple discusses their garbage collection and recycling habits. They talk about the amount of garbage they produce, the different types of waste they separate, and the increase in consumption during the holiday season....
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Bob Greenberg - 'Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout' by Shel Silverstein
Bob Greenberg is the creator of the Brainwaves Video Anthology. He is a retired elementary school teacher. SARAH CYNTHIA SYLVIA STOUT by Shel Silverstein Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out. She'd wash the dishes...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Vicki Cobb - Compelling Nonfiction for Kids
Vicki Cobb is the well-known author of more than eighty-five highly entertaining nonfiction books for children. Ever since 1972, when HarperCollins first published Science Experiments You Can Eat, Cobb's lighthearted approach to hands-on...
Independent Producers
Industrial Scale Composting
Students in Bellingham, Washington, pushed to introduce composting programs at their high schools and these programs have proved successful. This story follows food from the school cafeteria to the compost site where microorganisms...