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Recycling
Provided by: Project Drawdown |Published on: February 6, 2024
Articles/Websites Grades 9-12, ap-college
Synopsis
- This article discusses the environmental benefits of recycling, how the recycling rate can increase in cities worldwide, and the positive impact that can occur if the global recycling rate increases substantially.
- Students will learn the financial implications and reduction in emissions that will arise if a more aggressive recycling program is adopted.
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, Economics, Civics
Authors: Project Drawdown
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
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.
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About the Partner Provider
Project Drawdown
Project Drawdown is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “drawdown”—the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. Cities, universities, corporations, philanthropies, policymakers, communities, educators, activists, and more turn to Project Drawdown as they look to advance effective climate action. Project Drawdown resources for educators include the database of Drawdown Solutions, educational video series Climate Solutions 101, the Drawdown Stories initiative, and more.
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