~Do kids think trash disappears to a place second-star to the right, and straight on ’til morning?
The Bite
Not if they’ve been to a landfill. Rubbish doesn’t end up in some imaginary, far-away place; most of it ends up nearby in a garbage dump. Peter Plan a trip to one with the kids for a down-’n'-dirty (but enlightening) daytime outing.
The Benefits
*Teaching kids that trash doesn’t just disappear – especially important since each of us creates about 4.6 pounds of trash per day, and 55% goes to landfills (the other 45% is recycled or incinerated).
*It’s 99% cheaper than a trip to Knott’s Berry Farm – and you might even come home with some used car parts…or something.
Personally Speaking
Dad used to take her to the dump occasionally as a kid, where she’d watch him chuck garbage over the side of their truck and into dumpsters, always thinking that those dumpsters must be magic since they never ran out the room for more garbage.
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