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Edible
Landfill Recipe
Assemble the following:
- A clear plastic cup which is your landfill cell (or premade
tart or pie crust);
- Crumble cookies (any kind that will crumble) and place a
small layer in the bottom of the cup. This represents the 3'
of clay placed in the bottom of the cell to prevent fluids from
seeping out;
- A thin layer of vanilla pudding for the plastic liner;
- Two 1" pieces of licorice "whips" to represent
leachate collection pipes;
- More cookie crumbs to be the sand and gravel layer to protect
the pipes and plastic from punctures.
Next add the "garbage:"
- 1 teaspoon fruit cereal to represent organic waste such as
food or leaves;
- 2 teaspoons rice cereal to represent paper and cardboard
which makes up 40 percent of landfill contents. Almost all of
this layer could be recycled to save space in the landfills;
- Some white chocolate chips for plastics;
- Some butterscotch chips for glass;
- Mini marshmellows for metals;
- Chocolate cereal "rings" for tires;
- Top with a small chocolate candy to represent everything
else.
Finishing touches:
- Drizzle chocolate syrup to show leachate, the moisture that
percolates through layers of waste material;
- Cover with another layer of plastic - vanilla pudding, that
is;
- Cookie crumbs for soil;
- Green sprinkles for grass;
- Punch in 2 straws to represent Methane gas collectors.
Eat it, if you still have the stomach for it!
Take a field trip to your local landfill and see how your
town's trash is handled.
How could you help fewer items to wind up in your landfill?
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- Projects
for a Healthy Planet : Simple Environment Experiments for Kids
by Shar Levine, et al
- Designed to help children understand the causes of pollution;
examine alternatives to the use of non-renewable resources; and
learn to create environmentally friendly products.
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