Recycling Transformation

• This podcast tells listeners about the benefits of the Recycling Modernization Act, signed into Oregon law in 2021.
• Students will learn why this act was necessary and the benefits and limitations of the act.

Positives

• Students can download a flyer from the website that lays out the act very clearly.
• Many credible speakers can be heard throughout the podcast, allowing students to hear many important viewpoints on the topic.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should know the difference between an act and a bill, and it may be beneficial for students to understand how a bill becomes law.
• Students may need the terms extraction and iterative defined prior to listening.
• The podcast references the "Bottle Bill" a few times. Prior to listening, students may want to research or have some background knowledge about this bill.

Differentiation

• Students in social studies classes can discuss the aspects of equity and accessibility and the role that they play in recycling and other climate solutions.
• Economics classes can do a recycling cost/benefit analysis on the different materials that get recycled and discuss how producers are being incentivized to play a role in this act.
• Civics classes can map out the process through which this bill became an act.
• Language arts classes can write a persuasive letter to their own state politicians asking them to look to Oregon to improve their own state's recycling system.