Solid Waste Disposal

Positives

• This fast-paced video will keep students engaged, while the animations help students understand the concepts.
• A full transcript of the video is available with a tracking feature, so students can easily follow along.

Additional Prerequisites

• In order to leave comments or record the scores from the practice questions, you must sign in.
• The video does not discuss solutions for reducing the amount of trash we produce, which would include reducing consumption, reusing items, fixing things, and recycling more.

Differentiation

• Environmental clubs or science classes could research the local solid waste disposal system and do a school awareness campaign to show the community where their trash goes.
• Students could come up with ways to reduce solid waste and encourage the community to commit to producing less trash.
• Engineering classes could brainstorm other ways to produce something valuable with trash.
• Other resources on this topic include this Project Look Sharp lesson on food waste, this video about a landfill in New Jersey that will be inundated due to sea level rise, and this Greenpeace article on cleaning up trash.