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 The following videos and books are available to ACI customers, educators, and students for check-out at the ACI San Leandro office. A photo ID is required for video check-out. If you are interested, please contact Carrie Dobert, ACI's Public Education Specialist, at (510) 346-8150, or by email at CDobert@alamedacountyindustries.com.* *Please type your phone number in your e-mail message so we may call you in the event that our e-mail is blocked. Thank you. |
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Videos:
"Do the Rot Thing - The Simple Art of Home Composting" - Alameda County Waste Management Authority, 2002.
Do the Rot Thing demonstrates the basic steps and shares simple tips that make composting at home fun and easy. You can reduce waste, recycle, and reap a harvest of home-made compost by using materials from cooking and gardening. You'll meet four Alameda County residents who show how they use compost, the natural fertilizer that improves every type of soil, around their yards.
"Kids Talkin' Trash" - Alameda County Waste Management Authority, 2002.
In Kids Talkin' Trash, Alameda County youngsters learn how to make less garbage by practicing the four R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot. By making less garbage, we protect our environment and save valuable landfill space for parks, farms, houses and places for wild animals to live.
"Taking Back Our Trash... A Film About Waste" - Alameda County Waste Management Authority.
A film about waste management.
"Taking Back Our Trash II: Putting Waste to Work" - Alameda County Waste Management Authority, 2000.
In Taking Back Our Trash II: Putting Waste to Work, we see dramatic changes that have taken place. We're servicing our waste stream more efficiently, and far less is winding up in landfills. Alameda County is recycling at a rate nearly four times greater than just a year ago.
"Going to the Source: A Video About Waste Prevention" - Alameda County Waste Management Authority, 2003.
Against a backdrop of environmental commitment, commercial innovation, new technologies, development of new markets and a reflective examination of consumerism, Going to the Source highlights commercial success stories and practical steps we can take to stop waste - at its source.
The Alameda County Waste Management Authority makes the above listed videos available to residents, businesses, and schools for free. For your free copy, call the Stop Waste Hotline toll free at 1-877-STOPWASTE (1-877-786-7927), or visit their web site at www.stopwaste.org. and click on Free Resources.
Books:
Buell, Carl Dennis. Acting for Nature: What Young People Around the World Have Done to Protect the Environment.
Heydey Books: Berkeley, 2000.
Gibbons, Gail. Recycle! A Handbook for Kids. Little, Brown and Company: Boston, 1992.
