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Video lesson plan of Trash Trouble in Paradise, teacher explains how to run the high school environmental justice activity

Trash Trouble in Paradise

Solid Waste unit

Air Pollution and Solid Waste unit

Smoke stacks at a power plant emitting smoke, a major source of air pollution.

The Human Footprint: Air Pollution and Solid Waste

A worker holding cell phones and other electronics, e-waste ready to be recycled.

Electronic Waste: The Case of Agbogbloshie, Ghana

Modern landfill operation at Waimanalo Gulch, the municipal sanitary landfill for Honolulu

Trash Trouble in Paradise

T-shirts that high school students examine to conduct a five-stage life cycle analysis

Secret Life of Tees

The great bag debate - paper bags versus plastic bags

The Great Bag Debate

Unit for elementary grades covers how humans create waste and impact the environment

What Happens to Our Waste?

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