The following education resources are available at the UCRRA and may be borrowed on a short-term basis. For further information, please call the UCRRA at (845) 336-3336

Publications

• A-Way With Waste A Waste Management Curriculum For Schools; third edition. Grades K-12 lesson plans for Reduce, Recycle, Solid Waste Management, Hazardous Waste, School Recycling, Dispose, and Waste and Water Sections. Washington State Dept. of Ecology, Waste Reduction, Recycling and Litter Control Program. 1990
  
  
• America Recycles Day- Lessons and Activities for school age children
  
  
• Backyard Composting- Your Complete Guide to Recycling Yard Clippings- Harmonious Technologies 1992
  
  
• Choose to Reuse- By Nikki and David Goldbeck 1995 An encyclopedia of service, products, programs, and organizations that foster reuse
  
  
• Complete Trash: The Best Way to Get Rid of Practically Everything Around The House. by Norm Crampton M Evans and Co. 1989
  
  
• Compost…. Because A Rind is A Terrible Thing To Waste. Provides businesses and institutions with basic information about food scrap composing-accompanied by a video. Cornell Waste Management Institute 1996.

• Cornell Cooperative Extension Materials: teaching packets and information
             Recycle: Mining Resources from Trash- Jean Bonhotal
             What about Waste
             Composting: Waste to Resources

• Dictionary of Discards: How to Make Useful Things from Scrap by Frank M Rich
  
  

• Easy Recycling Handbook: What to Recycling and How to Buy Recycled…Without All the Garbage. By Dee McVicker Grassroots Books 1994.
  
  

• EPA School Recycling Project- A handbook for Educators
  
  

• Exploring Wildlife Communities with Children- 1981 Elem. Education
  
  

• Girl Scout 80th Anniversary Program: Lessons
             Solid Waste
             Garbage
             Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

• Get The Goods Not The Garbage A Waste Reduction Education Project for Limited Resource Families. Cornell Cooperative Extension & Dept of Consumer Economics & Housing
  
  

• Here Today Here Tomorrow. A Teacher's guide to Recycling, Energy, and Solid Waste Management. Grades K-12; NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection, Division of Solid Waste. 1989
  
  

• Household Hazards: A Guide to Detoxifying Your Home
  League of Women Voters of Albany County1988
  
  

• Let's Recycle: Lesson Plans L-12 USEPA 1990
  
  

• Let's Reduce and Recycle United States Environmental Protection Agency 1980
  
  

• The New Green Christmas. How to make this and every holiday an environmental celebration: Kids' Stuff Too. The Evergreen Alliance Holo Books. 1991.
  
  

• Mars Doesn't Want It: Orange Co. Recycle Curriculum A curriculum for teaching solid waste management to children. Orange Environment Inc1990
  
  

• Mr. Rogers: Activities for Young Children About The Environment and Recycling Fred Rogers' suggestions for parents to teach recycling to children. 1990
  
  

• Operation Separation: Recycling Curriculum K-6, 7-12. Onondaga County Solid Waste Management Project, Syracuse NY 1989.
  
  

• Plastics and Solid Waste Management: each packet has 3 lesson
             Gr K-3
             Gr 4-6
             Gr 7-12
  
  

• How to set up a School Recycling Program

• Project Learning Tree- NYSDEC 2000 Environmental Education Activity Guide grades K-8

• Project Wild by Western Regional Envi. Educ. Council 1986
  

• Recycled Paper from Start to Finish by Samuel Woods 2000
  Marcal Paper Co.
  

• Revise, Recycle, and Recover: Realizing our Resources . A manual for teaching materials, including lesson plans, activities and worksheets on waste reduction, recycling, and other solid waste and environmental issues. by Claudia E Swain Frost Valley YMCA, NY 1991
  

• Roscoe Says: Nature's for Me: Pre-school environmental and recycling activity guide for teachers and parents 1994
  

• Solid Waste: Is There A Solution? Problem Solving Activities for Middle-Level Science. By The New York Science, Technology and Society Education Proj. 1992
  

• Steel Cycles: Cycles for Science Grades 9-12 General Science Chemistry Earth Science
  

• Tools For Life: A start up guide for Youth recycling and bicycling programs 1996 By Transportation Alternatives New York City
  

• The Waste Makers. Tells the startling facts behind the American philosophy and practices of deliberate waste. Vance Packard 1960
  

• Watch Your Waste: Let's Talk Trash Teacher Activity Packet grades 1-3
  

• Water Wise: Lessons in Water Resources  Dept of Natural Resources
  

• The Ways Of The Watersheds An Educator's Guide to the Environmental and Cultural Dynamics of New York City's Water Supplies. By Frost Valley YMCA
  

• Worms Eat My Garbage. How to set up and maintain a worm composting system. Mary Appelhof Flower Press 1982.
  

• WRAP: We Recycle America and Proudly. Curriculum guide K-6 Town of Islip/Dowling college
  

• 3*2*1 Concact: A Parent/ Teachers Guide for Science and Environmental Issues 1993
  

• The 4Rs Curriculum: Cross Reference Guide. Grades: Pre-K-8. Office if Environmental Education and Florida Dept. of Education.
  

• 30 Simple Things You Can Do To Save Energy- Central Hudson and The Earth Works Group. 1990
  

• 50 Simple Things Kids Can do to Save The Earth. The EarthWorks Groups, Andrews and McMeel Press, Kansas City, MO 1990.
  
  

Videos

Recycling:

• 20/20 Riverview's Benefit from Landfills. Documentary about how one Community Benefits Economically from their closed landfills (length 120 min)
  
  
• A Users Guide to Saving the Planet
  
  
• Earth day Special
  
  
• Profit the Earth
  
  
• For Earth's Sake: David Brower
  
  
• Hudson Chronicles
  
  
• Buying Recycled: The real Story about Cost, Availability and Quantity. A broadcasting from the EPA waste wise (length 120 min)
  
  
• Buy Recycled: EPA Satellite 11-9-99
  
  
• Closing the Recycling Loop with Marcal. By Marcal Paper Mills
  
  
• Community Partnership: An Invitation to Benefit Your Community.
  
  
• Do Something Positive. Battery Recycling (length 6 min)
  
  
• Earth to Kids: HBO Special with famous guests who engage children in concepts of recycling and garbage reduction. (Length 30 min)
  
  
• Life After the Curb: Recycling Process: A documentary for children on how items are recycled. Grades 2-12 (length: 22 minutes)
  
  
• Making Choices with the Environment in Mind A guide for teachers and consumers about the basics of recycling. (length 56 min)
  
  
• The Original Recyclers: Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries: (length: 10min)
  
  
• Paper from Paper Not from Trees . From Marcal Paper Mills Illustrates the process of making tissue products from waste mail and recycled paper. (length: )
  
  
• Recycling Plastics: Revolutionizing the State of the Art: Examines technology for recycling plastics. (length: 10:37)
  
  
• Shop SMART: Get the Goods Not the Garbage.
  
  
• Steel Can Recycling Institute: The World Of Steel (length 15 minutes)
  
  
• Time and Time Again: narrated by Teens about MRF and Landfills talks about the importance of Recycling and the three R's. (length 15 min)
  
  
• Your Toxic Trash. About House Hold Hazardous Waste (length 30 min)
  
  
• Waste Prevention Tools At Work: for Businesses and Solid Waste Professionals
  
  
• Waste Prevention Pays for Businesses (length 120 min)

Composting:

• The Complete Home Composting Video Guide
  
  
• Composting: It makes sense for the Supermarket Industry
  
  
• Composting because a Rind is a Terrible Thing to Waste (food scraps) 30 minute and 7 minute tapes available. By Cornell Waste Management
  
  
• Compost Pile: Christmas Tree Recycling
  
  
• Home Composting: Turning Your Spoil to Soil (length 17 min)
  
  
• It's Gotten Rotten: High School Science Topic
  
  
• Recycling Yard Waste: A tour of Community Programs (length 35 min)

Flyers/Pamphlets/ Manuals

• UC Home Composting Manual
• UCRRA Home Composting Brochure
  
• Recycling is not Garbage by R Denson and J Rustan
  
• Reduce Reuse Recycle this Holiday Season Broc.
  
• UC Mandatory Source Separation and Recycling Law Broc.
  
• UC Mandatory Source Separations and Recycling Law
  
• Don't Waste More than You Have to. Recycling Construction- Dutchess County Envi. Management Council
  
• UC Commercial and Institutional Recycling Guide for Businesses and Institutions (one copy as a book)
  
• UCRRA Commercial Recycling Manual- Guide for Bus, Institutional, and Industry
  
• UCRRA Recycling Specifications flyer 10-01
  
• UCRRA Recycling Instructions Broc.
  
• Multi Residence Recycling Guide- NYS DEC and Cornell Coop Ex
  
• City Cycle- Guide to Urban Settings (one copy)
  
• Waste Reduction- number one priority in SWM broc
  
• Rent, Repair, and Reuse- Money Saving Guide (2 copies)
  
• Breaking the Waste Habit- Guide to waste reduction UCRRA
  
• S.M.A.R.T. Shopping broc
  
• The Reusable Lunchbox- DEC broc
  
• House Hold Hazardous Waste Broc
  
• Safe Alternatives to HH Products broc
  
• Paper Recycling and its Role in SWM
  
• Glass Recycling information packet and flyers
  
• SMART Lunch bookmarks
  
• About Breaking the Waste Habit UCRRA booklet
  
• About using HH Chemicals safely UCRRA booklet
  
• HHW Paint disposal and HHW
  
• Free Blue Box
  
• Back Yard Burning broc.
  
• HHW Products: How to Avoid or Safely Dispose UCRRA flyer
  
• About Recycling
  
• UCRRA Activity Coloring Book
  
• Hudson Valley Materials Exchange flyer
  
• Managing and Disposing of HHW NYSDEC booklet
  
• Lead-Acid Battery Recycling NYSDEC Pamphlet
  
• ReUse It- NYSDEC flyer
  
• Disposing of Used Motor Oil book mark
  
• Reduce Reuse Separate and Recycle NYSDEC broc
  
• An Office Paper Recycling Handbook NYSDEC
  
• Mr. Yuk Poison Prevention broc (stickers also available)
  
• Energy Aid for Public Schools- NYS Energy Office and Ed. Dept
  
• The Customer's Handbook for Reducing Solid Waste- US EPA (2 copies)
  
• Hey New York, Let's PreCycle - DEC
  
• Office Paper Recycling Guide- National Project for Office Paper Recycling
  
• Sorry, Full…..New York's Landfill Capacity Crisis NYSDEC broc.
  
• Get Your Money Back with New York State's Returnable Container Law
  
• A Green Guide to Yard Care broc
  
• Sensible Pest Control for The Yard and Garden Cornell Coop Ext and Rockland Co.
  
• Your Home Energy Fitness Program Central Hudson
  
• The Importance Of Quality in Recycling Glass Bottles and Jars
  
• Remember to Recycle Plastic Bottles with Necks- flyers and broc
  
• UC Paper Recycling Instructions
  
• Clean Water: A Bargain at Any Cost broc
  
• Common Uses for Recycled Plastic
  
• Disposal of HHW packet from Cornell Coop Ext
  
• Tire Tips bookmark
  
• Traxx Plus - Eco Tyre
  
• The Bottom Line: A Guide to Waste Reduction for NYS Businesses booklet NYS Dept of Economic Development