Backyard Composting: Your Complete Guide To Recycling Yard Clippings. (1993, 6^th printing) Harmonious Technologies. Harmonious Press, P. O. Box 1865-100, Ojai, CA 93024

Composting: The Hands-On Gardener. (1997) Ball, Liz. (Smith & Hawken). Amending the soil with homemade compost both renews the ground and recycles Nature’s resources. Workman Publishing Company, 708 Broadway, New York, NY 10003-9555.

Easy Compost: the Secret to great Soil and Spectacular Plants. (1997) Hanson, Beth (Ed.) Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Inc.

Easy Composters You Can Build. (1995), Nick Noyes. Storey Books, Schoolhouse road, Pownal, Vermont, 05261.

Let It Rot!: The Gardener’s Guide to Composting. (1998) Campbell, Stu. Storey Books, Schoolhouse Road, Pownal, Vermont 05261.

The Complete Book of Compost: the easy, economical, earth-friendly way to help your garden grow. (1998) Francis, Robert. Berkley Books, New York.

The Rodale Book of Composting. (1992) Martin, Deborah L. and Gershuny, Grace. Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pennsylvania. Composters bible. Easy methods for every gardener to improve soil, recycle kitchen and yard waste, grow healthier plants, and create an earth-safe garden.

Scriptographic Booklets- Channing L. Bete Co., Inc., 200 State Road, South Deerfield, MA 01373.

About Hazardous Products in the Home: a guide to proper use and disposal. (1996)
Booklet number 49411A-11-92.

About Managing Yard Waste. (1991) Booklet number 48801

Breaking the Waste Habit: a guide to "waste reduction". (1990) Booklet number 48769B-6-94.

Put Waste In Its Place: a guide to household solid waste management. (1989) Booklet number 48280.

What You Should Know About Recycling. (1989) Booklet number 48595.

"Rot and Roll" by Stan Slaughter, cassette tape. Includes I Am an Animal, Inch By Inch, The Composters, Put Me In The Compost Pile, The Landfill Blues, Garbage (side one); The Garbage Blues, Recycle Shuffle, I Am Recycled, Cosmic Stew, I’m From The Earth, Let’s Go Up To The Forest (side two).

Landfill Model by Enviroscape. This new interactive model demonstrates how modern "sanitary-landfill" systems of today differ from unregulated open dumps of the past. It shows the different layers of a landfill and the ground water below it. It demonstrates how the improper disposal of items can contaminate our ground water supply. This model takes approximately one-half hour to set up and take down.

Worm Bin - An aerated container with red worms and bedding. The red worms recycle nutrients from organic materials to make fertile soil. Portable; 17" long, 14" wide and 13" high. To be used with video "wormania," "Recycling with Worms", and books, "Worms Eat My Garbage," and "Worms Eat Our Garbage." Students can feed food scraps to the worms (list included of what foods are acceptable) .

Worm Digest, "Worms Deepening Our Connection to Food and Soil," volumes 1 through 24. Lots of information concerning vermi-composting.

25 Ways To Love The Earth. A list of 25 earth friendly things to do. - 1 sheet

1993 Conservation Education Catalog; Developed by the Conservation Education Advisory Board.

Actions Speak! (Louder Than Words); Curriculum Guide. The Social and Environmental Impact of Solid Waste, 71 pages; middle school (grades 6-8). ILENR/RR-91-22, September 1995.

Adventures of the Garbage Gremlin*: Recycle and Combat a life of Grime. Comic book for students in grades 4-7. *See Recycle Today! on page 9.

All Trashed Out- Recycle, Reduce, and Reuse; Grades K through 6, ILENR, 1992. DCCA, 1995. (#ILENR/RR-92/02). 69 Pages.

Another Awesome Aerosol Adventure: Teacher Guide & Video; Teacher guide on the design and use of aerosol products. Consumer Aerosol Products Council, 1995.

Boat- (Newspaper) instructions - 4 pages.

Boat Folded-paper - 3 pages.

Children's Art Hazards; Lauren Jacobson, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), 16 Pages.

Compost column instructions and information - 4 pages.

Conservation Quest - Fun and Games for our Friends Copy-ready pages. 23 pages. Illinois Department of Conservation. 1993

Cycles for Science - Five book set, grades 9-12, Steel Recycling Institute, 1995. General/Earth Science, Community Volunteer Projects, Biology, Chemistry, Physics.

Earth Academy Coloring and Activity Book; Grades 3-5. Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc.

Earth Cycles - Activity Guide for Teachers (Grades 3-5) and Youth Advisors and Student Leaders (Grades 9-12). With information/worksheets - copy-ready, also posters on steel can recycling. 30 pages. 1998

Earth Trek... Explore Your Environment; Information and Activities. USEPA Office of Public Affairs, 1987. (doc. # OPA-87-004) 24 Pages.

Guide To Fun Recycling Projects for Educators: The Three R’s Activity Book. Grades K-8. This publication is dedicated to increasing environmental awareness among Illinois students and achieving long-term behavior changes to ensure the wise use of our natural resources. 12/99.

Illinois-Specific Environmental Issues; Illinois Dept. of Energy & Natural Resources (ENR)/Hazardous Waste Research & Information Center (HWRIC), 1990.

Investigation Recycle! Activities & Trivia; Game, copy ready. ILENR/RR-93/01 23 Pages.

Let's Recycle!; Lesson Plans for Grades K-6 and 7-12, USEPA 1980. 38 Pages.

Let's Reduce and Recycle*: Curriculum for Solid Waste Awareness; Lesson Plans for Grades K-12, USEPA/Solid Waste and Emergency Response, August 1990. (#EPA/530-SW-90-005). 144 Pages.

*See Recycle Today! (below)

McHenry County Schools Recycling Lesson Ideas and Background Information, Grades K-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8.

Mission Possible! A Teacher’s Guide for Grades 9-12. Students Building Solutions for Their Community’s Recycling Needs. Produced by Quality Educational Resources, Julia Walsh (Illinois Teacher of the Year, 1976), President. "Mission Possible!" presents lessons on solid waste management and related educational materials emphasizing the 3Rs - reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. These units meet the "Applications of Learning" in the Illinois Learning Standards and align with some of the Illinois Academic Standards in Language Arts, Science, and Social Studies. 12/99.

Music (Environmental). 1 page. 1993.

Paper Recipe Sheet, Make Your Own.

Plastics in Perspective; Curriculum, conveys importance of plastic waste reduction and recycling, high school. ILENR/RR-91/18, September 1991. 96 Pages.

Puppet Construction Guide - 7 pages.

Put Waste in its Place - a guide to household solid waste management booklet. 15 pages. 1996.

Recycle Our Available Resources; grades 4-8, ILENR/RR91/15, September 1991. 52 Pages

Recycle Today! (Pamphlet describing the curriculum) provides a varied, entertaining, and informative way for educators to teach young people about recycling and other solid waste issues. Recycle Today! incorporates broader sociological, economic, and scientific information about the world we live in. Recycle Today! consists of four publications that focus on the importance of recycling, and how it can have an impact on trash management and the environment.

(1) Let's Reduce and Recycle: Curriculum for Solid Waste Awareness; Lesson Plans for Grades K-12, USEPA/Solid Waste and Emergency Response, August 1990. (#EPA/530-SW-90-005). 144 Pages.

(2) *School Recycling Programs: A Handbook for Educators describes a number of school recycling program options, along with step-by-step instructions on how to set up a program.

(3) Poster - "Ride the Wave of the Future Recycle Today!

(4) Adventures of the Garbage Gremlin: Recycle and Combat a Life of Grime. Comic book for students in grades 4-7

Recycled-Browning-Ferris Industries MOBIUS® Curriculum. Understanding the Waste Cycle, Vol. I (Grades 4-6). 121 pages. 1990.

Recycling in the Schools Week (K-12). Teacher’s Activity Guide. Minnesota Department of Education. 1982.

School Recycling Programs, A Handbook for Educators. 24 pages. EPA. 1990. * See Recycle Today!

School Science Laboratories--A Guide to some Hazardous Substances; Council of State Science Supervisors/U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 1984. 58 Pages.

Solid Waste Activity Packet for Teachers with audio tape of songs; ENR & The Cooperative Extension Service, University of Illinois, 1990 & 1991.

Solid Waste: From Problems to Solutions - A Teacher's Handbook on Waste Reduction; 16 Pages. ENR-OSWRR, 1990.

Sparky’s Lifesaving Lessons and Flammable Liquids, grades K-3, 9 pages and Daredevil’s Lifesaving Lessons About Flammable Liquids, grades 4-8, 9 pages, with poster. By gas appliance manufacturer’s association.

Teacher's Guide to Selected Videotapes on Solid Waste Management: Richard S. Treptow, Chicago State University, Field Test Copy.

The Land We Depend On: Fifth Grade Classroom Guide on Solid Waste Issues; IEPA Office of Public Information/DLPC, 1989. 110 Pages.

Waste Free Lunch Day - Guidelines. 3 pages.

Waste Reduction Guide for Illinois Schools; ENR-OSWRR, 3/94. 3 Pages.

Wisconsin Explorer Activity Book, Grades 4 and up. 32 pages. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.