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.
Teaching Tips
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.
Scientist Notes
This podcast episode goes over the (at the time) proposed Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act and all the ways it would be beneficial. Please note that this bill became law in 2022. This resource is recommended for teaching.
Standards
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English Language Arts
Speaking & Listening (K-12)
SL.ES.9-10.3 Evaluate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, identifying any false reasoning or distorted evidence.
