Classroom Activities
SWACO Resources:
• School District Recycling Guide 
• Recycling 101

PAST Foundation/SWACO Garbology Project:
Garbology is a hands-on minds-on educational program that explores the global issues of waste management involving students in understanding what we really waste today and what are some of the alternatives for managing waste, today and tomorrow. 

• Visit www.lulu.com/content/1555148 to download a free copy or purchase the Garbology Project. PAST/SWACO/Metro High School Garbology

ODNR-DRLP Windows on Waste (WOW) Curriculum
• WOW Guide
• WOW Vocabulary
• WOW Ohio Department of Education Activity Correlations

Other Websites and Resources:
• Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Recycling and Litter Prevention (ODNR-DRLP) Tools and Resources.
• The Waste Not Center
• Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) EPA Activities and EPA Kids Club
• FirmGreen Carbon Footprint Calculator FirmGreen What’s My Carbon Footprint
• Earth 911 Website Earth911 
• Central Ohio Sustainability Alliance (COSA) www.cosa-oh.org/cosa_quiz.php

Brochures and Information
• Green Report Card
• Naturally Clean
• Recycling 101
• How Can I Help
• Recipes From Mother Nature
• Recycling, Make it Second Nature

For More information:
Kristi Higginbotham, Environmental Education Manager
kristi.higginbotham@swaco.org
614-871-5100

Tour the Landfill:
Are you looking for a different type of field trip that students are sure to remember and learn valuable environmental and ecological lessons from? Come and tour the landfill. Learn more here.

SWACO Sanitary Landfill Poster
(Download a landfill poster 72 DPI for digital screen usage)

SWACO Sanitary Landfill Poster
(Download a landfill poster 300 DPI for printing)

SWACO Resource Library:
offers a lending library open to residents, students and teachers of Franklin County. The resource library contains information and materials specific to solid waste. Materials available include:reference, current periodicals, curriculum guides, videos, kits and children's books. Current print material, and video/ education kit catalogs are available on-line. For more information to include the catalog listings, please Click here to go to the Resource Library web page.

Other Programming:

    • Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission 
    MORPC Programs  
    • Center of Science and Industry 
    COSI Science Education Programs 
    • Terrific Resources for Environmental Education (TREE) 
    TREE Brochure
    • New Albany Plain Local Schools District-wide recycling 
    program New Albany Plain Local Schools Recycling