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In this lesson, students explore solid waste and its effects on the environment. They will collect classroom trash for analysis and build model landfills in order to understand the process and impact of solid waste management. Students will understand the role of engineers in solid waste management.

Engineers have quite a challenge to find better ways to get rid of our everyday garbage. Bioengineers design systems to destroy wastes and clean up contaminated soil and water. Today, some of our household garbage is recycled and the rest goes to landfills — pits with a protective liner — and each trash layer is covered with a thin layer of soil. Environmental engineers are developing new, innovative landfills to breakdown garbage and create gases, such as methane, used to generate electricity. Understand and explain different methods of waste disposal.Explain some of the major problems caused by waste disposal and use of landfills.Understand and explain the role of engineers in solid waste management.Suggest ways to reduce the amount of solid waste going to a landfill.50TeachEngineering.orgAmy KolenbranderJessica ToddMalinda Schaefer ZarskeJanet Yowellhttp://www.teachengineering.org/collection/cub_/lessons/cub_environ/cub_environ_lesson04_quiz.pdfhttp://www.teachengineering.org/collection/cub_/lessons/cub_environ/cub_environ_lesson04_quiz_answers.pdfhttp://www.teachengineering.org/collection/cub_/lessons/cub_environ/cub_environ_lesson04_extensionactivitysheet.pdfhttp://www.teachengineering.org/collection/cub_/lessons/cub_environ/cub_environ_lesson04_extension_answers.pdfChandler, Gary and Graham, Kevin. Recycling (Making a Better World), New York, NY: 21st Century, 1997.Prelutsky, Jack. It's Raining Pigs and Noodles, New York: Greenwillow, 2000.Sakamoto Steidl, Kim. Environmental Portraits – People Making a Difference for the Environment, Boulder, CO: Good Apple, Inc., 1993.Silverstein, Shel. Where the Sidewalk Ends, New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1974.http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/earth/recycle/nimby.htmWoodburn, Judith. Garbage and Recycling, Milwaukee, WI: Gareth Stevens Publishing, 1992.S1141715International_Technology_Education_Association-ITEA_STL_StandardsTechnologyB. Waste must be appropriately recycled or disposed of to prevent unnecessary harm to the environment.35S1142568ColoradoScienced. Create and evaluate models of the flow of nonliving components or resources through an ecosystem 44United StatesCopyright 2012 - Integrated Teaching and Learning Program, College of Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulderhttp://www.teachengineering.org/policy_ipp.phphttp://www.teachengineering.org/2011-05-104Teacher