For Teachers

Featured Activity: Waste-Less Lunch

Lead your students in learning about natural resources used in common packaging materials. Challenge your students to conserve natural resources through their lunch choices.

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For Students

Featured Activity: Conduct a Waste Assessment

Do you know how much waste your school puts in landfills each week? How much your school recycles or composts? Find out with a waste assessment and help your school create less waste.

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For Families

Featured Activity: Composting With the FBI

The FBI turn waste into healthy soil. Learn about how fungus, bacteria, and invertebrates break down organic matter. Help them out by composting in your home to keep food and yard waste out of landfills.

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"I used the application with my class, and they loved it! The application is easy to use and is adaptable for any grade level. There is nothing else like it on the web; it's both fun and educational. I think My Garbology is great because any teacher can use the application as a one-shot deal or teach the lessons as part of a whole unit on conservation."

– Paul, a third grade teacher in Oakland

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Trash Talk

Monday Nov. 14, 2011

What is Garbology?

At our NatureBridge campus in Olympic National Park, we educators talk about Garbology all the time with our students. The students practice Garbology as they measure their food waste at every meal, working to reduce the amount that goes into landfills.

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