Incredible Edible Landfill

Dawn Winger, from the Howard County Recycling District taught the first graders about recycling. We need to Reduce, Re-use, and Recycle.  Each child made an edible landfill using food as each level in the landfill.  They had vanilla wafers as the soil, a fruit roll-up as the plastic liner, Twizzlers as the tubes to release methane gas, pudding and gummy bears as the trash, chocolate pudding for the dirt on top, and green sprinkles for the grass.  Yummy.  What a fun way to learn about recycling. Mrs. Stites was so pleased to see Dawn, because Dawn was in Mrs. Stites' first grade class many years ago! 

Incredible Edible Landfill

Both first grades participated in an Incredible Edible Landfill program brought to us by Howard County Recycling. Marla Vechey taught us how to Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. We learned we can recycle any color of glass. Plastic needs the numbers 1-7 to be recycled. Tires can be made into mulch. After learning about recycling and landfills, the children made their own incredible edible landfill. They started by placing a fruit roll up into a plastic cup as the liner that is under the landfill. A twizzler was the Leachate pipes that take out the garbage juice underneath the garbage, pudding was the garbage, a vanilla wafer was the cap, chocolate syrup was the dirt, and M&M's were the grass. The children enjoyed eating their landfill. We are going to try to do more re-using and recycling in order to help save the Earth!