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The follow materials can be purchased from CU Press.

 
   

Product Number
Reource Title
Cost
43167 Master Composter Program Guide and Resource Manual
12.00
43169

--- with Compost: Truth or Consequences video (15-minute)

30.00
43168 Compost: Truth or Consequences (15-minute video)
25.00
43093 Compost...Because a Rind is a Terrible Thing to Waste (65-page manual only)
22.50
43090

--- manual and both videos (30-minute and 7-minute)

35.00
43088

--- manual and 1 video

30.00
43086

--- 7-minute video only

20.00
43087

--- 30-minute video only

22.50
43092 Composting: Wastes to Resources packet
3.95
43172 Do You Know Where Your Garbage Is? (12-minute video)
23.25
43460 It's Gotten Rotten: Composting as a Topic for Scientific Inquiry for High School Students
26.25
43171 Life After the Curb: Recycling Processes (20-minute video)
23.25
43094 Recycling: Mining Resources From Trash (packet)
8.95
43170 Turning Over an Old Leaf: Municipal Yard Waste Composting (7-minute video)
23.25


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Composting: Wastes to Rsources: A guide for those who want to educate youth about composting. The packet includes a 36-page instructional guide, two posters, and eleven designs for compost systems. 1996. back

Do You Know Where Your Garbage Is? A 12-minute video for youth which presents options for what we can do with the garbage that we can't reduce, reuse, or compost. Two animated characters and documentary footage help us explore the more controversial issues of composting, incinerating, and landfilling and how these can be part of a community's waste management plan. Informative for all ages. 1992. back

Life After the Curb: Recycling Processes: A 20-minute video for youth which shows how materials are reprocessed into new products. It shows separation and recycling processes and end products for plastic, steel, aluminum, glass, and paper. Reasons to reduce, reuse, and recycle are covered, and ways to reuse materials are shown. 1990. back

Master Composter Program Implementation Guide and Resource Manual: This two-part manual provides the resources needed to create and implement a Master Composter program. Part 1, the "Master Composter Program Implementation Guide," is designed for staff developing and implementing a Master Composter Program within a community. It covers recruiting volunteers, responsibilities, and presents examples for community outreach and education programs.

Part 2, "Master Composter Resource Manual," is aimed at the Master Composter volunteer. This section describes the Master Composter Program, teaches the science of composting, illustrates methods for composting at home, including vermicomposting, and contains educational and outreach activities that can be conducted by Master Composters. 1998. Also available as a package is a 15-minute video, "Compost: Truth or Consequences." back

Recycling: Mining Resources From Trash: A resource packet for educators that shows what's in your trash can, what's made of recyclable materials, and where it should go. Includes a 33-page guide with activities for youth and 5 posters that illustrate waste composition and the products of recycling: aluminum, paper, glass, and plastic. 1990. back

Turning Over an Old Leaf: Municipal Yard Waste Composting, The 20% Solution: This 7-minute video featuring representatives from diverse communities, was produced to help local officials and citizens understand how recycling yard wastes through composting and chipping can save money. From small rural municipalities to large urban counties, keeping yard wastes out of disposal facilities and recycling them into compost and chips makes sense. 1992. back

   
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