Videos

The following videos are available for check out from the Spokane Regional Solid Waste System. Please contact Ann Murphy, Education Coordinator at 625-6580 to reserve videos.

The following video (VHS)materials are available for check out from the Spokane Regional Solid Waste System.

Title: Alu Man the Can
Subject: Recycling
Audience: Grades K-3
Length: 15 minutes
Summary: Describes the recycling process of newspaper, glass, and aluminum cans. Features the puppet characters Alu Man the Can, Nettie Newspaper, and B.J. Bottle to address solid waste issues and the importance of recycling. Excellent!
(Office of Consumer Health Education, New Jersey, 1987)

Title: Eco-Adventure - A Journey Through Spokane’s Environment!
Subject: Solutions to Eco-problems in Spokane’s air, water, and solid waste.
Audience: K-6
Length: 50 minutes
Summary: Jim Valley and Enuf Already host a journey through Spokane’s air (inversion), water (aquifer) and solid waste. Emphasis on proper disposal to help keep air and water clean. Accompanying teacher materials. Video version of the 1995 assembly which toured Spokane County elementary schools.
(Spokane Regional Solid Waste System, Spokane County Air Pollution Control Authority, Spokane County’s Water Quality Management Program -RXL Pulitzer, 1995)

Title: The Garbage Crisis: “What Do We Do With It All?”
Subject: Solid waste management
Audience: Grade 7 through adult
Length: 23 minutes
Summary: Describes the history of solid waste disposal and the problems associated with solid waste. Describes in detail incineration and state of the art landfills as alternatives to “sanitary” landfills. Also discusses clean-up of old landfills. Briefly mentions recycling. Accurate.
(Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission, Lyndhurst, NJ, 1986)

Title: Garbage in America
Subject: A series of three videos addressing solid waste issues
Vol. I: The Choice is Ours
Subject: Solid Waste Disposal
Length: 20 minutes
Summary: An overview of creation of solid waste and how to manage its disposal. States that this complex problem requires a complex solution and will require attitude and behavior changes in all individuals. Uses 4 Rs - revise (buying habits), reuse, recycle, and recover (WTE and compost). California specific examples. (1988)

Vol. II: Hazardous Waste - Priority One
Subject: Household and industrial hazardous wastes
Length: 20 minutes
Summary: Defines hazardous waste and states that in order to control, individuals must be informed. Identifies 5 categories of household hazardous waste and how to manage. Also examines toxics in industry. Lists the consumer, industry, and government as all a part of the problem and the solution. (1989)

Vol. III: Landfills - Options and Solutions
Subject: Solid Waste Disposal
Length: 27 minutes
Summary: Describes in detail a variety of options in the solid waste hierarchy: Source reduction, Recycle-reuse, combustion, and landfills. New information on plastics. Identifies roles which each individual can take. (1990)
Audience: Grade 6 through adult
(Refuse Industry Productions, Inc., Grass Valley, CA)

Title: I Need the Earth and the Earth Needs Me
Subject: Clean environment
Audience: Grade 3-5
Length: 20 minutes
Summary: The environmental message is simple: “The earth is our home. All living things on earth depend on each other, and all need a quality environment.” Video focuses on our need for air, water and soil and how one person can do a small part to make a difference. Gives examples of tree planting, river water testing, recycling. Accompanying teacher’s guide gives specific follow up activities.
(General Motors Corporation, 1990)

Title: Make a World of Difference
Subject: Solid waste problem and the three R’s as part of the solution
Audience: Grades K-6
Length: 42 minutes
Summary: A live performance of the assembly program which toured Spokane County elementary schools in 1989-90. Solid waste problems and solutions are presented through the interaction of singer April and robot R3U2. Lively dialog and songs encourage students to be on the team.
(Spokane Regional Solid Waste System by Alliance Pacific, Inc., 1989)

Title: Make a World of Difference (short version)
Subject: Solid waste and the three R’s
Audience: Grades K-5
Length: 16 minutes
Summary: A shortened version of above; filmed specifically for classroom usage.
(Spokane Regional Solid Waste System by Alliance Pacific, Inc., 1990)

Title: Mister Rogers Neighborhood #1617
Subject: The Environment and Recycling; Landfills
Audience: Preschool
Length: 30 minutes
Summary: This recycling program is one of a sequence of five episodes on the environment that appeared on the Public Television series MISTER Rogers NEIGHBORHOOD. Mister Rogers and his friend Mr. McFeely separate recyclables and take them to a recycling center where they watch what happens to their cans and bottles. In the “Neighborhood of Make-Believe” the characters must solve the problem of closed dumps. Accompanying activity book.
(Family Communications, Inc., 1990)

Title: Out of Space
Subject: Solid waste management
Audience: Grades K-5
Length: 16 minutes
Summary: Kids interact with a space creature looking for better garbage disposal methods. Outlines the history of solid waste disposal and alternatives such as incineration and landfilling. Points out that kids can help by recycling and reusing. Accurate information except that tinned cans are erroneously listed as not being recyclable.
(Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission, Lyndhurst, NJ, 1988)

Title: Paper Recycling
Subject: Recycling of paper
Audience: Grade 6 through adult
Length: 18 minutes
Summary: Emphasizes how recycling, especially paper recycling, reduces solid waste, earns money, and conserves natural resources. Outlines history of paper recycling. Describes in detail the process of paper recycling and gives case studies of paper recycling programs. Shows that kids can have a large impact by recycling newspaper. Uses many statistics.
(American Paper Institute)

Title: Precycling and the 3 Rs
Subject: Waste reduction and recycling
Audience: Grades K-5
Length: 19 minutes
Summary: Spokane’s recycling robot, R3U2, and singer April Vogel share songs and information on precycling, waste reduction reuse, and recycling. Video is of the second assembly program which toured Spokane County elementary schools in Spring 1991.
(Spokane Regional Solid Waste System by Alliance Pacific, Inc., 1991)

Title: R3U2’s Recycle Quiz
Subject: Waste reduction and recycling
Audience: Grades K-5
Length: 17 minutes
Summary: R3U2 and April Vogel host a “game show” to review concepts of waste reduction and recycling. Includes information on curbside recycling.
(Spokane Regional Solid Waste System by Alliance Pacific, Inc., 1991)

Title: Recycling in Washington State: It Works for You
Subject: Recycling
Audience: Grade 5 through adult
Length: 15 minutes
Summary: Describes benefits of recycling--conserves natural resources and energy, earns money, reduces solid waste and litter. Shows recycling as a family activity. Describes buy-back and drop-off centers, need for consumer awareness and the state recycling hotline. Outlines process of recycling center, to broker, to manufacturer, to consumer again. Shows recycling cycle of newspaper, aluminum cans and glass.
(Washington State Recycling Association, 1985)

Title: Recycling: It’s Nature’s Way
Subject: Aluminum can recycling
Audience: All
Length: 7 minutes
Summary: Relates recycling to one of nature’s cycles. Detailed description of aluminum recycling cycle. Shows that kids can recycle to earn money, reduce litter, and save energy and natural resources. Describes case studies of successful recycling projects. Shows the many uses of aluminum.
(Alcoa, 198 )

Title: Recycling: The need is clear
Subject: Glass recycling
Audience: All
Length: 12 minutes
Summary: Addresses both the how and why of glass recycling. Bottles are taken through the entire recycling process. Describes case studies of glass recycling. Points out that young people can make a difference by recycling. Comes with the “Great Caper” ditto sheets.

Title: The Resource Revolution
Subject: Recycling (with specifics on plastics)
Audience: Grade 7-12
Length: 12 minutes
Summary: The year is 2010. The setting is Mrs. Livingston’s 20th century history class. Hal gives his high-tech final report on the Resource Revolution -- recycling. Entertaining and fast paced.
(The Council for Solid Waste Solutions, 1991)

Title: The Roger Recycleman Show
Subject: Recycling
Audience: Middle school
Length: 35 minutes
Summary: Roger Recycleman and his sidekick R.E. Use host a talk show about the 3 R’s. Studio version of the assembly program which toured Spokane County middle and high schools in 1992.
(Spokane Regional Solid Waste System by White Runkle Associates, 1992)

Title: The Rotten Truth
Subject: Solid Waste Disposal
Audience: Grades K-6
Length: 30 minutes
Summary: This entertaining “3-2-1 Contact Extra” takes students on an adventure with Stephanie Yu to learn the rotten truth about garbage. Stephanie visits the Museum of Modern Garbage, a landfill, a materials recovery facility, recycling sites, and a waste to energy plant. Examines litter, plastics in the ocean, composting, and what kids can do. Addresses the priorities: reduction, recycling, incineration, landfilling.
(Children’s Television Workshop, 1990)

Title: Solid Waste Disposal Landfill
Subject: Siting a new landfill
Audience: Grade 7 through adult
Length: 10 minutes
Summary: General background on the Spokane Regional Solid Waste Disposal Project. Describes landfill siting and construction and the Environmental Impact Statement process.
(Spokane Regional Solid Waste Disposal Project, 1988)

Title: Space Station Earth
Subject: Resource conservation through recycling
Audience: (Good resource for teachers)
Length: 23 minutes
Summary: Classroom setting discusses Earth as a space station with certain essential needs and finite resources. Emphasizes resource conservation through waste reduction, reuse, and recycling. Snohomish county specific references.
(Snohomish County Solid Waste Department)

Title: Shop Smart to Reduce Waste
Subject: Waste reduction at the grocery store
Audience: Middle school to adult
Length: 14 minutes
Summary: A trip through the grocery story gives tips on how what you buy effects what you have to recycle and/or throw away.
(Washington State Department of Ecology, 1991)

Title: Talking Trash
Subject: Solid waste; recycling
Audience: (resource for teachers)
Length: 30 minutes
Summary: Video shows recycling facility; a teacher explaining in-classroom recycling, and a classroom presentation about solid waste and recycling to primary level. Good ideas.
(Diogenes Foundation, Jefferson County, Washington, 1989)

Title: Think First - Cut Waste
Subject: Waste reduction
Audience: Middle school to adult
Length: 8 ½ minutes
Summary: Examines what we buy and why we buy it. Asks viewers to think before buying -- buy in bulk, buy durables to avoid disposables, look for safer alternatives to toxics, compost, and use retread tires and recycled oil for the car.
(Washington State Department of Ecology, 1993)

Title: Traces of Today
Subject: Solid Waste Management
Audience: Grade 5 through adult
Length: 12 minutes
Summary: Puts solid waste management in a historical perspective with references to prehistoric trash pits and landfill archeology. Re-examines some disposal myths. gives information on plastics recycling. Examines the need to develop markets.
(Dow Chemical, 1990)

Title: We’ve Got the Whole World in Our Hands
Subject: Water conservation and recycling
Audience: Grades K-3
Length: 10 minutes
Summary: Using San Jose children and the theme song, “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands,” characters Dan and puppet Cornelius Crow examine water conservation and recycling of glass, metals, paper and plastics. Some specific references to San Jose.
(City of San Jose, California, 1989)

Title: What Are We Toxin About?
Subject: Household Hazardous Waste
Audience: Middle School to adult
Length: 8 ½ minutes
Summary: Viewer is taken on a toxic household home tour to examine the more that 60 hazardous items found in the average home. Examines effect on ground and surface water and indoor air. Suggests alternatives which are less toxic.
(Washington State Department of Ecology, 1993)

Title: Wormania!
Subject: Worm Composting
Audience: Grades 3-5
Length: 26 minutes
Summary: Features close-ups of live earthworms in their natural habitat and in action. Models, graphics, and clear descriptions cover how worms move, their role in soil ecology, how worms breed, and how to set up a worm bin for composting organic waste. Four original songs make this a fast-paced, educational, and entertaining video. Includes teacher’s guide.
(Flower Press, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1995)