Welcome to the Recycling Room for Educators!

Here you will find several links to environmental web sites, as well as other educational information on waste reduction, recycling, resource conservation, pollution prevention, composting, etc.

• Aluminum Recycling
• Amazing Recycled Products 
• Amazing Environmental Organization Web Directory
• An Ounce of Prevention - National Science Teachers Association Middle School Source Reduction Curriculum is available electronically in PDF format.
• CMI (Can Manufacturer's Institute) - The Aluminum Beverage Cans (ABC's) of Environmental Education includes background information, in-class experiments and extracurricular activities intended to meet the environmental education material guidelines of the North American Association for Environmental Education and Project 2061's Benchmarks for Science Literacy.  
• Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
• Colorado Recycles
• Colorado Association For Recycling
• Creative Exchange - Non-profit agency that channels reusable byproducts from businesses to educators, students, and community groups for use in the arts, creative learning, and play.
• Environmental Education EE-Link
• EPA's Environmental Education Center for Teachers -  Resources to help teachers (K-12) and other educators including guides, curricula, information about grants, a selection of documents to introduce environmental topics, and other internet resources.
• Glass Packaging Institute  - Order a free copy of "Teacher's Guide to Glass Container Recycling" which includes an "interactive poster" for students and grade-appropriate reproducible pages of information.
• Green Teacher - Education for Planet Earth
• Keep America Beautiful
• Kids and Classrooms - Helping Young Minds Grow     (National Gardening Assn.)
• NAPCOR  (National Association for PET Container Resources)  plastic's recycling
• National Soft Drink Association
• National Gardening Association
• National Waste Prevention Coalition - King County, Washington
• Plastics Resource   American Plastics Council, includes a "virtual tour" of the Smart House. 
• Scott Resources, Inc. (Fort Collins,CO)  Produces math and science classroom teaching products (videos).
• Steel Learning Center
• Steel Recycling Institute  - has educational products for purchase. Click on the "Education" icon for a listing of available materials such as ROSCOE, the finger puppet) Kit, ROSCOE's Totally Cycled World Interactive CD-Rom, Earth Cycles, and more.
• The ULS Report - is a bi-monthly newsletter created to help people Use Less Stuff by conserving resources and reducing waste. It takes a common-sense approach to waste prevention, relying on facts and figures rather than simply rising and falling with the tides of public opinion.