Solid Waste Management Media Available for Loan
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Title
Producer
After the Storm
Weather
Channel &
EPA
All About Garbage &
Recycling
Gaiam
Auntie Litter’s Earth
Auntie Litter
Inc.
Auntie Litter’s
Pollution Patrol
Auntie Litter
Inc.
Buying Recycled:
The Real Story
About Cost,
Availability, and
Quality
Cans: Infinitely
Recyclable
EPA
Collection of Solid
Waste Resources
(A)
Communities
Setting Trends in
Waste Prevention
and Recycling
Can
Manufacturers
Institute
EPA
EPA
Length
Date
Format
Grade
This program from the Weather Channel and EPA explore the
problems of water pollution. Topics include the effects of litter
on the environment and the fishing industry. Various solutions
are discussed including watershed agreements and household
tips for reducing water pollution.
Join Backpack Jack and his friends as they dive into the big,
stinky and amazing story of garbage. You'll discover what
happens to garbage after it leaves your home and all the cool
ways we can recycle and keep trash out of landfills.
This educational series will motivate students to prevent
pollution and conserve natural resources. The four programs
are: Every American Recycling Together Helps; WATER You
Doing to Help?; A Breath of Fresh AIR; and, Make a
Difference.
Four fast-paced video programs that will motivate young
students to learn more about the environment around them
and do their part to clean-up the world in which they live. The
programs are: Good Litter, Bad Litter; Reuse, Reduce Waste,
Recycle; Where Does Our Waste Go?; and, Nature’s Life Cycle.
This forum explores the topic of buying recycled products for
use by business. Case studies from several businesses, both
large and small, are explored. Tips and examples of recycled
products are shown to promote buying recycled.
Description
Topic*
I
25 min.
2004
VHS
7th –
12th
I, L
60 min.
2008
DVD
K–
4th
I, R
60 min.
2000
DVD
2nd –
6th
I, R
60 min.
1996
DVD
2nd –
6th
R
Two
hours
1999
VHS
Adult
A Curriculum Module for High School.
R
N/A
N/A
CDROM
8th –
Adult
More than 300 publications on hazardous and non-hazardous
waste, including recycling, reuse, buying recycled, composting
and used motor oil.
This film features case studies of different communities around
the country and their solutions for waste prevention and
reduction. A variety of topics are covered including e-cycling,
transfer stations and municipal recycling programs.
C, R
N/A
2008
CDROM
All
R
Two
hours
2002
VHS
Adult
Producer
Description
Compost: Truth or
Consequences
Title
Cornell Waste
Management
Institute
Comprehensive
Guide to Going
Green (A)
The Living
Series
Coolest Can (The)
Can
Manufacturers
Institute
Dr. Seuss: The
Lorax
Universal
Studios
Earth Aid: Recycling
View Video
Earth Days
PBS
Earth Science:
Talking Trash:
Understanding
Landfills
Earth Science: The
Cycles of Recycling
Sunburst
Visual Media
Garbage! The
McDonalds Family
Andrew
Nisker
General Science
Series: Recycling:
The Choice is Yours
Instructional
Video USA
This video teaches the science behind the solutions. Using a
quiz show format to present common questions, it shows
home composters learning how to provide the right conditions
for composting without problems.
Provides specific instructions on how to go green in virtually
every aspect of life. Includes tips about household cleaning
products, lawn and garden care, energy conservation, organic
cooking and green shopping.
This video is an entertaining and educational look at can
manufacturing and recycling. It starts with an aluminum roll
and can making process and moves to recycling and the closed
loop system.
The award-winning animated tale of The Lorax tells the story
of the greedy, tree-chopping Once-lers and the brave little
Lorax who speaks up for the vanishing forest. Also includes
“Pontoffel Pock & His Magic Piano.”
Covers a wealth of innovative tips that cost nothing, but help
reduce waste through recycling, reuse and pre-cycling.
This documentary looks back to the dawn and development of
the modern environmental movement through stories of the
era’s pioneers. It examines the revolutionary achievements,
and missed opportunities, of a decade of groundbreaking
activism.
This program, which digs through the garbage and explores
the inner workings of landfills, addresses National Science
Education standards regarding natural systems and man’s
impact on the environment.
This program explores the waste stream and the management
of waste with landfills, waste combustion, recycling and source
reduction. Learn to compare natural and human-made waste
systems.
Concerned for the future of his new baby boy, writer and
director Andrew Nisker takes an average urban family, the
McDonalds, and asks them to keep every scrap of garbage
that they create for three months. He then takes them on a
journey to find out where it all goes and what it's doing to the
world.
An overview of recycling, this DVD traces the journey of
materials through the recycling chain back to the consumer.
Landfills are looked upon as potential recreational areas.
Recycling methods are shown in areas as diverse as farms and
Sunburst
Visual Media
Topic*
Length
Date
Format
Grade
C
15 min.
1998
DVD
8th –
12th
H, R
60 min.
2008
DVD
Adult
R
10 min.
1998
VHS
2nd –
6th
R
52 min.
2003
DVD
All
R
17 min.
2008
DVD
H, I, R
Two
hours
2010
DVD
8th –
12th
9th –
Adult
L
18 min.
2002
DVD
7th –
10th
L, W,
R
30 min.
2002
DVD
7th –
10th
C, H,
L, R
76 min.
2009
DVD
7th Adult
L, R
55 min.
1992
DVD
8th –
12th
Title
Producer
Growing Greener
Schools
PBS
Guide to Cigarette
Litter Prevention
Keep
American
Beautiful
Auntie Litter
Inc.
Let’s Sing for Earth
Day
No Impact Man
Oscilloscope
Laboratories
No Time to Waste
Oklahoma
Solid Waste
Institute of
NE Oklahoma
PBS
Rachel Carson’s
Silent Spring
Real World Science:
Trash and the
Environment
Mazzarella
Media
Recycling Video
Quiz
Renovation Nation:
Recycle, Reuse &
Reclaim
Sunburst
Visual Media
Gaiam
Description
schools. Issues like legislation, markets and packaging are
touched upon and an explanation is given for the way plastics
are numbered.
This two-part multi-media resource offers a comprehensive
look at best practices for creating sustainable schools. The
focus of Part One is on environmental curriculum and its effect
on student health and learning. A look at eco-friendly buildings
and cost savings are discussed in Part Two. (CD-ROM includes
downloadable handbook, curriculum and more.)
Simple instructions, plus tips and tools, will help you launch a
plan of action for reducing cigarette litter.
This package teaches you the words and dance motions to all
nine original songs performed by Auntie Litter and the
Pollution Patrol. Includes a CD, song lyrics sheet and DVD that
teaches the dance moves to each song.
A man sets out to avoid making a personal impact on the
environment in this clever and engaging film. This means no
elevators, no television, no cars, busses, or airplanes, no
meat, no toxic cleaning products, no electricity and no
garbage. The changing relationship dynamics of his family
during the one year experiment are also explored.
This video presents a comprehensive overview of solid waste
management in Oklahoma, highlighting problems and potential
solutions.
Rachel Carson's 1962 book "Silent Spring" caused a firestorm
when it exposed the harmful effects of pesticides such as DDT
on the animal population and the environment. The landmark
effort spurred national policy and helped launch environmental
activism around the world. This documentary, narrated by
Meryl Streep, chronicles Carson's life and writings.
By taking trips to a recycling center, a landfill, and a town
dump, kids learn what happens to trash after they "throw it
away." This program focuses on the environmental problems
created by solid waste and offers suggestions for ways to
alleviate them. Includes teachers guide.
Presents the processes carried out at landfills and recycling
centers, and identifies what items can be recycled.
Former host of “This Old House,” Steve Thomas, travels the
country in search of the most innovative, cutting-edge ideas
for green building and design. From salvaged building
Topic*
Length
Date
Format
Grade
C, R
90 min.
(Two
parts;
45 min.
each)
2010
DVD
6th –
Adult
I
N/A
2005
CDROM
Adult
I
45 min.
2008
DVD
K–
6th
C, H,
L, R
93 min.
2009
DVD
8th –
Adult
I, L, R
18 min.
1994
DVD
9th –
12th
H, I
56 min.
2007
DVD
8th –
Adult
I, L, R
18 min.
2002
DVD
6th –
9th
L, R
30 min.
2002
DVD
R
60 min.
2009
DVD
5th –
9th
Adult
Title
Roscoe’s Totally
Cycled World
Rotten Truth (The)
Producer
Steel
Recycling
Institute
Children’s
Television
Workshop
Simple Steps to a
Greener Home
Lime Media
Solid Waste Gets a
Higher Education:
College & University
Waste Reduction
Talkin’ Trash & The
ABCs of
Environmental
Education
Tapped
EPA
Trash Becomes
Treasure: An intro
to composting
i Open Media
Trashed
Bill Kirkos
Unintended
Consequences
Waste Land
Tall Oak
Productions
Almega
Projects
Can
Manufacturers
Institute
Gravitas
Description
materials to product repurposing, see how reclaiming and
reusing can give your home a new look while holding onto part
of the past.
Integrated environmental education program for the middle
school that focuses on solid waste management through
lessons and activities that support critical thinking.
This educational video shows kids what happens to garbage
after it is thrown away. Here they go on a trip to the "Museum
of Modern Garbage" and a landfill in search of "The Rotten
Truth"!
Environmental lifestyle expert Danny Seo shows that it really
is easy being green and shares creative ideas that have made
him America’s leading lifestyle authority on modern, ecofriendly living. From flooring to restoring, remodeling to
recycling, green living can be gorgeous living too.
This film explores the ways institutions of higher learning can
reduce waste and improve their sustainability. Case studies
from several different institutions are explored and tips are
provided. (Three copies available.)
The ABCs of Environmental Education includes an intermediate
curriculum for grades 4-6. Talkin' Trash includes an
interdisciplinary curriculum module for Grades 6-9.
The high cost, to both the environment and our health, of
bottled water is the subject of this documentary that enlists
activists, environmentalists, community leaders and others to
expose the unsustainable side of the bottled water industry.
This easy-to-follow guide explains how what we often consider
garbage can become a valuable additive to our plants and
gardens. See how easy successful composting is and hear the
stories of those who have made it a part of their lives.
An investigation of one of the fastest growing industries in the
United States, the garbage business. The film analyzes the
causes and effects of the seemingly innocuous act of “taking
out the garbage.”
A lively and instructive collection of songs around the theme of
Household Hazardous Waste sung by Stan Slaughter.
This documentary follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he
journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil
and the world's largest garbage dump, located on the outskirts
of Rio de Janeiro. There he collaborates with the “catadores,”
Topic*
Length
Date
Format
Grade
R
N/A
1998
CDROM
6th –
9th
L, R
30 min.
1990
VHS
2nd –
6th
R
69 min.
2006
DVD
Adult
R
Two
hours
2001
VHS
Adult
R
N/A
N/A
CDROM
3rd –
9th
I, L, R
2009
DVD
7th –
Adult
C
76 min.
+ 26
min. in
extras
30 min.
2010
DVD
6th –
Adult
I, L
60 min.
2007
DVD
9th –
12th
H
30 min.
1998
L, R
98 min.
2011
Audio
CD
DVD
K–
6th
9th –
Adult
Title
Producer
Waste Prevention
Pays: Businesses
Cut Costs by Cutting
Waste
Why “Waste” a Cool
Planet: MSW
Solutions to Global
Climate Change
EPA
YES I Can!
Steel
Recycling
Institute
Your Toxic Trash
Sylvia
Komatsu &
Terry
Fitzpatrick
EPA
Description
self-designated pickers of recyclable materials, to create art.
This film explores the way businesses can become more
environmentally friendly while also improving their bottom
line. Case studies from several businesses, both large and
small are explored.
This educational film explores the debate about global
warming and its effects on the environment. It investigates
both sides of the global warming issue and includes
information about Waste Wise and other EPA programs as well
as tips and solutions to reduce waste.
Children and adults alike will enjoy this animated tale of a
juice can, hot sauce bottle and daily newspaper, as the
characters make their way from a smelly trash can to their
ultimate destination...the grocery store shelf after they are
recycled into new products.
This video hosted by Ed Begley Jr. features eight quiz
questions that allow viewers to test their knowledge of such
topics as which household items pose the greatest threat to
the environment, the safest methods of disposing of hazardous
wastes, and the regulations governing the handling of toxic
chemicals by private citizens.
*Topic Code Legend:
C= Composting
H=Household Hazardous Waste
I =Illegal Dumping & Littering
L=Landfill
R= Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
W=Waste-to-Energy Combustion
(Updated 9/15/11)
Topic*
Length
Date
Format
Grade
R
One
hour &
50 min.
1998
VHS
Adult
R
Two
hours
2000
VHS
9th –
12th
R
15 min.
N/A
VHS
Pre-K
– 3rd
H
30 min.
1993
VHS
9th –
12th