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The Kentucky Environmental Education Council

The Kentucky Environmental Education Council was established to improve Kentuckians’ understanding of their environment.  Although the major focus is primary and secondary education, the council also works with colleges and universities, businesses, local governments, private organizations and citizens; in fact, anyone who wishes to help themselves or their students better understand our relationship to the natural world.  Our goal is to provide citizens with the knowledge they need to make their own informed decisions about their environment. Click here to browse many environmental education publications including Be a Solid Waste Survivor.

The Art of Recycling – Creative ways to recycle by making art. This Imagination Factory site includes a Trash Matcher (ideas for using various items) and a Badge Matcher page with information for Brownies and Girl Scouts.

Charge Up to Recycle! Battery Lesson Plan  – Grades 5 and up. The lesson plan uses batteries as the basis for developing students' math, science and history skills while teaching the benefits of recycling rechargeable batteries. The lesson plan was developed by Keep Indianapolis Beautiful in cooperation with the Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation. 

Case of the Broken Loop – The detective follows the trail of the Garbage Gremlin and students learn about reducing waste and conserving resources. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) publication.

Teachers Guide to Glass Recycling  – Educational guides for K-12 produced by the Glass Packaging Institute.

History of the Recycling Symbol –  In 1970, graduate student Gary Dean Anderson won first place in a contest sponsored by a paperboard company for his design based on the Möbius loop. Read more about it here: The History of the Recycling Symbol and Gary Anderson has been found!

Paper recycling – Educational flyers on paper reuse, recycling and sustainable forestry produced by the American Forest & Paper Association for classroom use by K-6 teachers.

Recycle City – U.S. EPA site for students that shows what happens to garbage and why recycling is important. Recycle City includes a game and other activities.

School Recycling Guide – Our Recycling Assistance staff created a School Recycling Guide for teachers interested in developing a recycling program in the classroom. Division publication.

Recycling Programs – U.S. EPA guidance documents and other support to individual communities wishing to undertake recycling programs. 

Scrap Map -- Grades K-6. It explains and illustrates recycling by following autos, aluminum beverage cans and newspapers through the recycling process. ISRI: Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc. publication.