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Solid Waste/Recycling

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Students see that when we throw away garbage, it usually ends up in a landfill. Landfill space is getting increasingly scarce, and every time we throw something away we throw with it the energy, the money, and the raw materials it took to make it.

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recycling, solid waste

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4th - 6th
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Science
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