Recycling

Reduce, reuse, and recycle! Learn ways you can help the environment by reducing waste, reusing materials to make new objects like birdhouses, and find new ways shrink your footprint.

Cardboard with recycle symbol and the words Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

7 Steps to Shrink Your Trash

No single step can solve our waste disposal problems.

Crushed plastic bottles arranged into recycle symbol

Bring the Bottle or Can Home!

You and the other residents of Wisconsin are doing a great job recycling at home.

photo of a vermicomposting container with worms and vegetable scraps

Build Your Own Vermicomposting Box

Get started composting with worms!

Recycling seperated into different catagories

Here's how you can help the environment by reducing waste

Take small portions of food and go back for "seconds" if you are still hungry.

Home Recycling Survey

Team up with a teacher or guardian and find out how well you reduce, re-use, and recycle.

How to be a vermiculturist

Vermiculture - A four-syllable word for the care and feeding of your worms.

Nature's Recyclers Coloring Book

Fun coloring pages of nature's own clean-up crew!

Our Earth - What a Waste?

Recycling -- It's Working

Recipes for Composting

Easy ways to start composting!

Recycle for the Birds

Read our ideas for reusing materials to create birdhouses and feeders.

Recycling and Beyond Story - Closing the Loop

A story about what happens when you recycle!

Trash to Treasures for the Holidays

You can help the environment this holiday season by thinking of ways to use less energy and create less waste.

kids putting items in recycling bin outside a house

Waste

Where does trash go when you throw it away? Is there really an 'away'?