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- News | 08/18/2016
Staff from StopWaste and Alameda County were recent recipients of local industry awards at the 2016 California Resource Recovery Association (CRRA) Conference in Sacramento this August.
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Most Alameda County jurisdictions offer free tree recycling in early January on your regularly scheduled collection day.
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Learn about the lifecycle of a plastic product and the nonrenewable resources used to make it.
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Do the Rot Thing – The Simple Art of Home Composting Award winning video that demonstrates the basic steps and shares simple tips for making home composting fun and easy.
Students collect litter found on school grounds and link this litter back to natural resources.
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Students learn about methods used to harvest an active worm bin at different stations while brainstorming ways to use finished worm castings.
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Download Lesson 24 - English (535 KB)
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Students will set up a worm compost bin in the classroom, maintain the bin and observe how the contents change over time.
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Students learn about the process of decomposition, compost and why it’s important by setting up compost bin at school.
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Download Lesson 22 - English (729.09 KB)
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Students learn about worms by observing live red worms in groups and record their observations.
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Download Lesson 21 - English (937.49 KB)
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