Outreach No. 94 - Waste Part 4: What to do about Hazardous Waste (New York University - TVE - UNEP

Outreach No. 94 - Waste Part 4: What to do about Hazardous Waste (New York University - TVE - UNEP - WWF, 34 p.)

		(introduction...)
		OUTREACH information packs
		Acknowledgements
		Location map
		How to use OUTREACH packs
		How to use this OUTREACH pack
		Questions and answers: Hazardous waste
		Class activity: Bike and bike products
		News brief: European waste wraps Pakistani sweets
		News brief: Indonesia's scavengers seek ban on waste imports
		Activity: Hazardous waste on the Mexico-US border
		Article: Plastics: trashing the Third World
		Puzzle: A junk trap!
		Article: Deadly litter chokes livestock
		Fiction: Adventures of Ranger Rick: Rick and the gang learn about a trashy problem
		Article and class/group activities: The Basel Convention
		Article: Keeping tabs on toxics
		Chart: Household products: potential hazards
		Activities: What to do with hazardous waste
		Puzzle: Odd one out
		Activities: Use safer alternatives to house and garden ''toxics''
		Article: Mobilising against toxic waste
		Article: Oil spill!
		Class/group activities: Cleaning up oil spills

SOURCE
OUTREACH

SUGGESTIONS FOR USE

Teachers: As an exercise to evaluate students' recognition of hazardous household products.

Children's environment and health magazine/newspaper supplement editors: Include on a puzzle page.

Here are some household products. All except one are hazardous materials. Which is the odd one out?

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Answer: salt