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Sample Recycling Curriculum
Lessons in Sustainable Waste Management, a recycling and solid waste curriculum, was originally developed as part of a solid waste planning effort for Chaffee, Custer, and Lake Counties, prepared by LBA Associates, Inc., and the Colorado Association for Recycling.
Lessons in Sustainable Waste Management (PDF 16MB)
The lessons target Grades 3–5. These lessons have been selected from publicly available sources and modified as necessary for consistency with format and clarity, and to address Colorado learning standards.
The goal for the lessons is to help students become future stewards of our environment as they assume leadership roles in their lives by providing information to make better decisions about managing solid waste as individuals and citizens through an understanding of the impact of waste in their lives and community, the finite resources of the earth, and the concept of increasing sustainable environmental relationships through reducing consumption, reusing, recycling, and composting.