Recycling

What Milly Did: The Remarkable Pioneer of Plastics Recycling

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Copies: 6

Milly Zantow wanted to solve the problem of her town’s full landfill and ended up creating a global recycling standard — the system of numbers you see inside the little triangle on plastics. This is the inspiring story of how she mobilized her community, creating sweeping change to help the environment.

Author:

Elise Moser

Lexile:

1090L

What Milly Did: The Remarkable Pioneer of Plastics Recycling

The Magic School Bus Complete Series Disc 6

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Welcome Aboard The Magic School Bus! Are you ready for a wild ride? Grab a seat and hang on for the Emmy® award-winning animated science-adventure series based on the best-selling books.

Author:

Joanna Cole

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

02:41

Recycling Coordinator (2006)

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An enthusiastic recycling coordinator steps viewers through the recycling process for cans, plastics and newspapers, emphasizing the useful products and hundreds of jobs that are created by recycling industries. Shows the machinery and processes used at Material Recovery Facilities that produce recycled materials for clothing, benches, chairs, cardboard, and paper products.

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:10

Trash and the Environment (1998)

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Take a trip to a recycling center, a landfill, and a town dump to understand what happens to trash after it is thrown away. Focus on the environmental problems created by solid waste and discover ways to alleviate the problem. Learn that through daily conservation methods, people can control the amount of waste they produce.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Length:

00:12

Environmental Health (2005)

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Everybody wants to be healthy. When you're healthy, you feel good - physically and emotionally! But good health doesn't just happen. "Health for Children" introduces young viewers to the importance of making good choices about health and wellness and gives practical advice about how to develop healthy habits and set personal health goals.

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:23

Taking Care of our Earth (1999)

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With the help of animated landfill characters, students learn about their environment. Natural resources are identified and shown as students learn how important it is to conserve them. They also discover how reducing, reusing, and recycling benefit our environment, and how air and water pollution can hurt it.

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

00:17

Garbage (1993)

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It’s time to talk trash with Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Length:

00:23