recycling (waste)

Professor Jeff Ferrell shares details about his eight-month experience as a dumpster diver and trash picker and explores the consumption and wasteful behavior of Americans.

Looks at how paper, organic waste, cooking oil, plastic, metal, and other substances and items can be reduced and/or recycled, features brief case studies of kids who are involved in recycling efforts, and includes activities.

Lists numerous suggestions for reusing materials.

Provides step-by-step instructions for twenty-one craft projects that promote reusing everyday items such as old playing cards, marker caps, neckties, and more.

Juan teaches his little sister Tolola how to respect the environment by recycling and reducing consumption.

Presents twenty-five origami projects for utilizing wastepaper, including candy wrappers, envelopes, newspaper, and old calendar pages, with tips on technique and selection of ideal folding materials.

Discusses the relationship between humans and the garbage they create everyday. Examines whether our technology can sort it out, recycle it and bury it before it buries us.

Mr. Jones takes his students on a visit to a recycling center, and teaches them some of the many ways in which they can recycle and reuse.

Explains what the environment is, looks at how various items and materials can be reused and recycled, and discusses how reusing and recycling helps save the environment.

This episode features eleven music video parodies from the science guy's television series. The music videos cover different areas of science and are interspersed with facts and experiments presented by Bill Nye. Topics include velocity, friction, the water cycle, weather, brain function, methods of communication, oceanography, and recycling.