| GRN Recycle Talk FAQ Answer |
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 11:37:45 -0500 (EST) From: FRIEDMAN.FRED@EPA.GOV (Fred Friedman) Subject: Re: How to start reccle education in Malaysian schools?
March 14, 2000
The formal way is with one of the available and relevant curricula - eg from the UN, Australia, the EU, or if relevant, one called Lets Reduce Recycle from the US EPA. But you've got to shape the lessons to the level of material waste and utilization of scrap in Malaysia.
The informal way is to read up on it and directly apply the possibilities to the experience of your students and their culture. For example, if tires are already routinely reused to make sandles - as is the case in some parts of Southeast Asia - this might provide the basis for a lesson both in reuse and recycling, as well as in economics of manufactured and crafted materials.
Search ERIC for other relevant curricula; last i looked, around 1994, there were at least a few relevant materials and curricula.
- Research Library for RCRA