Positives

• This article highlights the need for worldwide cooperation to fight climate change.
• Students will benefit from seeing how this article organizes data, considers various factors, and discusses the study's limitations.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students need to understand how landfills contribute to climate change.
• Some students, especially ELLs, may benefit from having the terms municipal, organic, post-consumer, extraction, interpolation, extrapolation, and others defined before they read the article.
• Clicking the article's links won't take you to a new tab.
  

Differentiation

• Students can use this article and others from Project Drawdown's Table of Solutions to evaluate and compare climate solutions.
• This article can accompany a brainstorming session where students consider how they can increase recycling rates in their community.
• This article can support a classroom discussion on how businesses produce goods and how to regulate this production to protect the environment.
• Economics or science teachers can use this article as a starting point for a lesson about circular business practices. Teachers can challenge students to design a product with the end of the product's life in mind.