1. Waste Management Introductory Discussion

2. City of Toronto Garbage Workers Strike
Summer 2009
What did your family do?
What things do you remember people talking about?

4. What types of materials make up the largest part (by volume) of our landfills?
How do you think the volume of waste in landfills can be reduced most easily?
How do you think garbage has changed over the past 100 years?

6. What happens to your garbage?
How is it disposed of? Where does it go?
How does (might) the disposal of garbage affect you, other people, or the environment?

7. In addition to household garbage and human waste, what types of waste do you produce?
What kind of information could be gathered about a family by studying its garbage?