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Paper RecyclingWatch as we make recycled paper and recycled flower seed paper!
How will you use your recycled paper? You could make holiday cards, bookmarks to give as gifts, or holiday decorations. Add glitter, spray the paper with colored water or use leaves, grass, flower petals and other items to make beautiful designs in your paper. Make sure you add your embellishments while the paper is still wet. Follow our video for step by step instructions for papermaking. Click on the file below to download the Waste in Place
Papermaking activity guide.
Here is another video that shows you one way you can add color to your handmade recycled paper!
This video demonstrates a standards-based Project Learning Tree classroom activity, while also educating students about the actual paper making process.
Handmade Papermaking Kit for ClassroomsWe have a papermaking kit for educators to checkout. We will provide all the needed supplies, except the paper, to be able to recycle paper and make handmade paper in your classroom.
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Plastic Bottle RecyclingIn this story, "The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle," written by Alison Inches and read by one of KSGB's awesome youth volunteers you will hear the diary of a plastic bottle and learn all about his life's adventures!
How will you reduce and/or reuse common items like plastic bottles to prevent them from entering our landfills? Below you will find a few different ways that you can upcycle plastic bottles. What will you make?
Click on each image to be directed to each website for instructions. CarbonLite is the world's largest "bottle-to-bottle" plastic recycling plant in Riverside, California.
"SoCal Connected" takes a look inside the state-of-the-art facility where billions of plastic bottles are churned on an annual basis. The process involves transforming old plastic bottles into PET pellets and flakes in order to produce new plastic bottles. "We’ve all been told that we should recycle plastic bottles and containers. But what actually happens to the plastic if we just throw it away?
Emma Bryce traces the life cycles of three different plastic bottles, shedding light on the dangers these disposables present to our world. Lesson by Emma Bryce, animation by Sharon Colman." This video will show you how plastic bottles can be recycled into polyester. Polyester can be used to make fabric, carpet and other textiles.
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