Fashion is a huge part of the world's waste problem, but it doesn't have to be. Coachtopia founder Joon Silverstein shows how her company creates new designs from the waste products of another, a circular process that cuts the need for...

What if you could take something as tiny as a grain of sand — and as common as a glass bottle — and use it to tackle the climate crisis? Waste alchemist Franziska Trautmann shares how the spark of an idea turned into a large-scale...

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...

Roughly 40 percent of food produced in America never makes it to the table. Whether it rots in the field, is trashed at the supermarket, or thrown out at home, NPR's Allison Aubrey looks at why good food is being discarded, and what can...

Roughly 40 percent of food produced in America never makes it to the table.

Whether it rots in the field, is trashed at the supermarket, or thrown
out
at home, NPR’s Allison Aubrey looks at why good food is being...

Jessi teaches Squeaks all about recycling, and together, they recycle his old crayons to make cool new ones!



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Plastic is quickly becoming a problem and we're eager to point fingers, but honestly, the reason there's so much plastic everywhere isn't just because of human negligence.

Do you ever order clothes online in different sizes and colors, just to try them on and then send back what doesn't work? Aparna Mehta used to do this all time, until she one day asked herself: Where do all these returned clothes go? In...

This week, the truth about “biodegradable plastic,” and new insights into how global warming might eventually make winters colder.

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...

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. ...

Plastics are everywhere -- they're in our favorite electronic devices, they package our food and insulate our homes. Today, the total mass of plastic is twice the total mass of all living organisms on the planet, and it's starting to...

Hank tells us about the enormous concentrations of plastic debris floating around in the Pacific Ocean, why they're there and why they're a problem.

Recycling plastic is garbage, Greenpeace says in a new report. So, landfill then?

Pupil outcome: I can describe materials and objects that can be reduced, reused and recycled. Key learning points: - Recycling is one of the 3Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. - Rubbish needs to be sorted into different materials before it can...

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...

What's that noise? ... It's seagulls at a landfill.
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Six images are shown on screen ... can you spot the examples of land pollution?
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Four uses of land are shown, but which is the odd one out?
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A Twig Tidbit Film - Odd one out. The children have to work out which of four...

Most of the world's waste ends up in landfills – what effect is this having on our environment?
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Learn about the precious metals that make up mobile phones and how £1 billion worth of e-waste will eventually be dumped in landfills.
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Discover the daily life in Unalaska, where bald eagles are not just majestic birds but part of the community's routine.<br/>

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Follow the journey of your trash from your curb to the landfill and bey
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Meet the math experts who keep everything running smoot
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Discover the cool technology that uses math to...

Explore the Anthropocene Epoch, a proposed geological epoch highlighting the significant impact humans have had on Earth's ecosystems and climate. From vast landfills in Kenya to lithium mines in Chile's Atacama Desert, and the warming...