TED Talks
TED: Meet methane, the invisible climate villain | Marcelo Mena
A landfill on fire doesn't only emit a horrid stench — it has devastating consequences for the environment, too. The culprit is methane, an often underestimated greenhouse gas produced in large part by food systems, organic waste and...
SciShow Kids
Recycling Old Crayons! An Earth Day Activity
Jessi teaches Squeaks all about recycling, and together, they recycle his old crayons to make cool new ones! Second Grade Next Generation Science Standards Disciplinary Core Idea: PS1.B: Chemical Reactions - Heating or cooling a...
SciShow
Turning Your Leftovers Into Fuel
Even if you don't want to eat them, your apple cores still have plenty of energy left to give. SciShow explores how cities are capturing that energy and turning it into fuel.
SciShow
The Smelly, Oozy, Sometimes Explode-y Science of Garbage
You ever think about where your trash goes? How long it takes to decompose? And whether your garbage can become ... dangerous? You should! Hank explains the science of trash, how we've dealt with it (or not) over the ages, and both the...
Bozeman Science
Solid Waste
In this video Paul Andersen explains the basics of solid waste including trends over time, basic composition, and disposal. A brief description of the three R's (reuse, reduce, and recycle) is included as ways to minimize waste. ...
SciShow
What Happens If You Use Your Feces as Fertilizer?
Being able to use human feces as fertilizer could be really helpful for human colonies on other planets. It could also be useful for human colonies on THIS planet! And who doesn’t love recycling!?
Curated Video
How Five Billion lbs of Las Vegas Garbage Powers a City
Most the of 600 billion pounds of waste that Americans produce every year ends up in landfills. All that trash can have huge impacts on the environment. But modern landfills have found a new use for all that trash — they’re turning it...
Curated Video
Landfills
Most of the world's waste ends up in landfills – what effect is this having on our environment? People and places - Human impact on the environment - Polluting the land Learning Points A landfill is a hole in the ground that waste is...
Curated Video
The three 'R's
Learn the three Rs that will slow the growth of landfill sites: reducing packaging, reusing materials and recycling waste material. People and places -Environmental awareness and care - Reduce, reuse, recycle Learning Points Reducing the...
Wonderscape
Environmental Racism: The Fight Against Hazardous Waste in Black Communities
This video examines the history of environmental racism, focusing on protests in Warren County, North Carolina, and Houston, Texas, where predominantly Black neighborhoods were targeted for hazardous waste disposal. It highlights the...
Wonderscape
Climate Change: The Intensifying Greenhouse Effect
Learn how the enhanced greenhouse effect, driven by human activities, leads to global climate change. Delve into the role of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane in trapping more heat in the atmosphere, and discover the...
Curated Video
The Basics of Smart Recycling
This video takes a closer look at why recycling is crucial in our daily lives. As humans, our everyday activities—from eating snacks to unwrapping new toys—generate a significant amount of waste, most of which ends up in landfills. But...
Curated Video
Rethinking Rubbish: Landfills, Recycling, and Our Planet
Discover how the old solution of dumping waste into landfills, once considered innovative, has significant environmental drawbacks, from releasing methane—a potent greenhouse gas—to polluting our precious soil and water sources. But...
Curated Video
Environmental Innovations in Rio de Janeiro: Harnessing Waste for Energy and Advancements in Biodiesel
This video highlights the innovative environmental schemes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The city is harnessing methane gas from landfills to generate electricity, potentially avoiding an energy crisis. Additionally, recycling is being used...
Curated Video
I WONDER - How Old Are Landfills?
This video is answering the question of how old are landfills.
Learning Mole
I WONDER - Are There Any Problems With Landfills?
This video is answering the question of are there any problems with landfills.
Curated Video
I WONDER - How Much Of Our Waste Goes To Landfill?
This video is answering the question of how much of our waste goes to landfill.
Curated Video
How Items are Reused and Recycled
How Items are Reused and Recycled explores how various items are reused and recycled and explains how waste may be appropriately disposed of to prevent unnecessary harm to the environment.
Curated Video
Recycle It
A video entitled “Recycle It” describes ways to protect the environment by recycling items.
Curated Video
Organizing and Developing Supporting Ideas
This video provides a lesson on how to organize and develop supporting ideas in an opinion essay using boxes and bullets. It emphasizes the importance of having three separate reasons that support the thesis statement and provides...
Independent Producers
Industrial Scale Composting
Students in Bellingham, Washington, pushed to introduce composting programs at their high schools and these programs have proved successful. This story follows food from the school cafeteria to the compost site where microorganisms...