ENTUR ES OFNote to the Teacher The Adventures of the Garbage Gremlin: Recycle and Combat a Life of Grime (EPA/530-SW-90-024) is part of "Recycle Today," the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's educational program on recycling. It can be used in conjunction with Let's Reduce and Recycle: Curriculum for Solid Waste Awareness (EPA/530-SW-90-005) and School Recycling Programs: A Handbook for Educators (EPA/530-SW-90-023) to introduce students to the benofits of recyoling. A poster, Reoyole Today! Fide the Wave of the Future (EPA/530-SW-90-010), is also available to promote recycling and encourage students to get involved in recycling efforts in their schools. All of these materials can be ordered free of charge by writing OSW Publications, Office of Solid Waste, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street SW, Washington, DC 20460, or by calling the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Hotline at 1-800-424-9346. Office of Solid Waste EPA/S30-SW-90-024 eon kilOR WHAT HE REALLY IS... 5 Cas gear) OFF THE TRASH THAT OTHERS PL ena) aT a) FAT AND V, v BELIEVE HOW i FAST THIS DUMPSTER was Lx 6 PA 7 a hag ry GIVE IT UP, EVERYTHING ff GOES IN SAA\ WILL | FIND ENOUGH I'VE BEEN THROWN ‘OUT AGAIN! WHEREDIDI HEAR THE WORD "GARBAGE"? YOU ALL KNOW THAT OUR | ¢§ - TOWN LANDFILL 1S ALMOST ] fees THINK FLL FULL. LET'S GO SEE WHAT aoe TAG ALONG. ‘THE COMMUNITY IS DOING TO HELP SOLVE THE GARBAGE PROBLEM. WHY DO WE HAVE TO GO ON, THIS TRASHY TRIP, ANYWAY? DUNNO. TORATHER | | ol BE PLAYING BASKETBALL. ~ wt WASTE? nr i th, |8COLLECT SEPARATE REMAKE Pte a Pes Ta ek srees 70 pn ty CYCLING. CLEAN vi Rec YOUNG. TE TO CARRY AROUND ALL THAT GARBAGE?NOW, LETS HAPPENS TO ALL THESE RECYCLABLES!‘TRUCKS FROM VARIOUS COMPANIES OME TO TAKE AWAY THE RECYCLABLES AND MAKE THEM INTO NEW PRODUCTS. k ? | ie ‘THERE IS THE TRUCK TOCOLLEC! THE ‘ALUMINUM CANS. 4 = ly JP THOSE CANS 4 L-/ARETAKENTOTHE = \_& {COMPANY'S FACTORY WHERE ef THEY ARE MELTED 4 DOWN AND REMADE INTO NEW CANS. ‘a>FINALLY, THE NEW CANS WILL BE FILLED WITH SODA AND JUICE AND MARKETED, OR SOLD, AT THE SUPERMARKET... «WHERE THEY WILL BE OUGHT AND REUSED JUST, THE WAY GARBAGE WHO KNOWS WHAT KIND OF MATERIAL IS RECYCLED THE MOST? DISAPPEARS THATS A GOOD GUESS. ABOUT 5 BILLION GLASS CONTAINERS ARE COLLECTED FOR RECYCLING EACH YEAR. GLASS IS MELTED DOWN TO MAKE NEW GLASS CONTAINERS. BUT THERE'S ‘SOMETHING WE COLLECT EVEN MORE OF. oD PAPER IS NOW RECYCLED. WE MUST THROW OUT TONS OF WRITING AND DRAWING PAPER AT THE SCHOOL. MAYBE WE COULD BRING IT HERE TO BE . RECYCLED WE'D REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR HELP. gonad ICANT LET ‘THEM BRING THEIR PAPER HERE TO BE RECYCLED. I'VE GOT TOFOIL THEIR /Nene \asouere laa MEETING TODAY HEY, YOURE THE KID WHO THINKS RECYCLING IS A WASTE OF TIME. WE'VE GOT SOMETHING IN ‘COMMON. COME ON. AWAY THAT COULD BE USED AGAIN, 'D BETTER CHECK THIS OUT. fone rout a 2000 tbs] Atos i OF a pur v ey FOR EVERY TON t7, aN OF PAPER WE iv (451 RECYCLE, WE CAN PB AS SAVE 17 TREES MN? FROM BEING i CUT DOWN TO fu VALUABLE MATERIALS MAKE NEW ne 5 f” BY THROWING THINGS. PAPER. WE'RE ALSO RUNNING OUT OF PLACES TO PUT OUR TRASH. MANY (OF OUR LANDFILLS ARE ALREADY FULL. IF WE KEEP THROWING GARBAGE AWAY AT THIS RATE, WE MAY NOT HAVE ANYWHERE TO PUT IT. YESTERDAY, WE WENT # TOARECYCLING CENTER TOSEE HOW OUR SCHOOL ~\, COULD HELP OUT. BETSY HAS A REPORT.Uf 4 our HOMEWORK WON'T BE RECYCLED INTO WE DECIDED TO PAPER, THE CENTER WILL TAKE ALL OF OUR NOTEBOOK PAPER, COMPUTER PAPER, TYPING PAPER, j A i) H BEGIN BY RECYCLING A Y COPIER PAPER, AND EVEN OUR HOMEWORK TO BE RECYCLED INTO NEW PAPER PRODUCTS. ‘ON FRIDAY AFTERNOONS, USE ROTH SIDES VOLUNTEERS WILL TEACHERS WILL OF THE PAPER — COLLECT THE BOXES > _ HELP US BRING ™] seroReRECYCLNG 4] — EveryoayAND 7 | WHAT WE'VE COLLECTED IT. WE WANT TO STORE THEM IN TO THE RECYCLING WE'LL PUT WASTE AS ‘THE AUDITORIUM. cere COLLECTION BOXES LITTLE AS IN EACH CLASSROOM. POSSIBLE! INSTEAD OF THROWING OUT YOUR USED PAPER, PUT IT IN THE BOX. EVERYTHING EXCEPT ‘COLORED PAPER, NEWSPAPERS, AND GLOSSY PAPER LIKE MAGAZINES. THESE CAN BE RECYCLED, BUT OUR PROGRAM WILL START WITH ONLY WHITE PAPER.SO, IF EVERYONE WOULD TAKE A COUPLE OF THESE POSTERS ADVERTISING OUR COLLECTION... DONT FORGET! WHEN WE'RE THROUGH WITH THE POSTERS, WE'LL 4 RECYCLE ‘THEM TOO! GRUMBLE, GRUMBLE. IVEGOTTO |p STOP THEM. THIS RECYCLING BUSINESS HAS GONE FAR ENOUGH. THERE'S STILL PLENTY OF ROOM FOR GARBAGE. WHY WASTE YOUR TIME!NOW, THEY'LL TAKE ME HEY, MAN WHAT'S: IS SERIOUSLY. GOING ON? f od THIS IS NO PLACE re [ihe HERE'S MY CHANCE! | Bi Bie) HEY, KID, WAKE UP AND SMELL ‘THE GARBAGE! ANYPLACE IS A GOOD PLAGE FOR TRASH! YARD WITH YOUR 4 ANY UGLY TRASH. fg Se Ay Fs HOW CAN WE PLAY COME ON, GUYS, BASKETBALL WITH WE CAN'T LET ALL OF THIS GARBAGE? HIM GET AWAY YOU'RE RUINING WITH THIS. OUR WHOLE SCHOOL GS WE'VE GOT TO CLEAN THIS UPI WHAT CAN WE DO? ah AN WHAT ABOUT THOSE BOXES ALL Ge shoven THE scHooL? TM SURE THERE ARE A FEW EXTRA.LAST WEEK DAVID, LEWIS, AND TONY MADE A SPECIAL EFFORT TO CLEAN UP THE FRONT OF H ‘THE SCHOOL. AND WF FVEN ee MADE SOME MONEY FROM ALL THE Fm "OPER THEY COLLECTED. TO THANK THEM FOR THEIR HARD WORK, THE Ih) s # 4 Geof voucws BETSY, HOW WOULD YOU LIKE even pick YS “ane THe TOGO TO THAT PIZZA PARTY IT ALL UP? “ GREATEST! ieTHERE ARE OTHER SCHOOLS TO CONQUER. | HAVEN'T LOST YET. GRUMBLE, GRUMBLE.THE GARBAGE GREMLIN em HEADED YOUR WAY! KEEP THE GARBAGE GREMLIN OUT OF YOUR SCHOOL! + Organize a cleanup day at your school, or of a neighborhood park or playground. the amount of waste you create by using paper ir lunch in reusable aOUTWIT © GREMLIN | What ar some things that yu oten throw away that could be ret ‘or recycled? Dumpster Dig any objects as you can find in the dumpster. cled 2 th N Ww A s T E Pp A P E R B MArAtowmroogomyu ~QDOZCIO>EBO D>OCCO-AO>r0 oDmMorrmv0o)r > ADHOAY YP Y ODDD—-VHEAHZANV ZOm-00 O>znwOZ>0z-4 OprnmaO-r-Zzm<>Hz0> rOZFOHE oleic. Match each word with Its meaning. ‘Wilte the correct number In the blank. 4. Lanett A place where paper, cans, ‘bottles, and plastic wastes. 2, Recyclables Material made from yard — andlor food waste that improves the soil for growing __ Waste, such as cana, ‘botties, and paper, that can ‘be ramade into now products —Aetaca to buy and ot an ifthe Clean Valey schoo! collects 16,400 pounds —A specially constructed site of paper for recycting, approximately how many ‘or disposing of garbage ‘trees willbe saved? “soon be} — yz ‘omnes eeu eyeus! ¢ reedes 2 “poyoo | — equcing Buplony ‘gg 2-0'972 | — LRN,RECYCLE TODAY! ae) THE GARBAGE GREMLIN