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ReportPossible Scenarios for Action: Landfill Scenarios
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Possible Scenarios for Action
| Soil | Water | Energy and Industry |
| Investigate the reasons why Styrofoam cups, food containers, plates, etc. will never disappear from landfills. Design an advertising billboard for an environmental awareness campaign, and make a small scale drawing. |
About 77% of all the water that your family uses is for personal hygiene and toilet flushing. Propose a practical household water conservation plan with five suggestions. Create a poster that will depict your plan. |
Evaluate the tasks of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and choose the one task you consider to be the most important. Make a taped recording detailing your choice and your reasoning, and send your tape to the EPA in Washington, D. C. |
| Select the three best alternatives to sanitary landfills, and, in a written proposal to a local government official, defend your choices as more environmentally sound methods of waste disposal. | The Cuyahoga River near Cleveland, Ohio was so polluted from industrial dumping that it actually caught fire. Imagine you have inside information about an industry that is polluting a river near you. What will you do? Create a flow chart with a step-by-step plan of action. | Survey the types of emissions (and their effects) from an untreated, coal-fired electricity generating station. As though you were a concerned citizen observer using scientific instruments, keep a three-day diary of your observations and create an action plan based on your observations. |
or choose a similar situation of your choosing.
| Using Power Point, present your action plan to the class based on the situation that your group has chosen. |
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