1. Home
  2. Material Detail: Recycling Rules: Understanding Recycling and a MRF

Material Detail

"Recycling Rules: Understanding Recycling and a MRF" icon

Recycling Rules: Understanding Recycling and a MRF

In this activity, learners simulate the separation techniques that materials recovery facilities (MRFs) use and then design their own series of recycling techniques. Learners identify four ways recyclable materials can be separated and sorted at a MRF: conveyor belts, blowers, flotation, and magnetism.

Keywords:
Social Sciences, Conveyor Belt, Recyclable Materials, Human Impact, History/Policy/Law, Structure and Properties of Matter, NSDL, Biological Science, Sorting, Ecology, The Nature of Science, Physics, Engineering and Technology, Chemistry, General, Blower, Electricity and Magnetism, Magnetism, Science and Society, Materials Science, Forestry and Agriculture, Technology and Society, Life Science, Flotation, Physical Science, Garbage, Trash, Invention and Innovation, Recycling, Geoscience, Technology and the Environment, Anthropology, Risks and Benefits, Materials Recovery Facility, Engineering, The Scientific Process, General Science, Technology, Impacts of Technology, The Design Process, Waste Stream, Education, Vibration and Waves
Disciplines:
Go to Material 
Bookmark / Add to Course ePortfolio
Create a Learning Exercise
Add Accessibility Information
Rate
Add a Comment

Quality

  • User Rating
  • Comments
  • Learning Exercises
  • Bookmark Collections
  • Course ePortfolios
  • Accessibility Info

More about this material

Material Type:
Simulation
Date Added to MERLOT:
July 27, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:
May 2, 2021
Authors:
Submitter:
Barbra Bied Sperling
Hispanic Serving Institution
Primary Audience:
Middle School
Technical Format:
PDF, Website
Mobile Compatibility:
Not specified at this time
Language:
English
Cost Involved:
No
Source Code Available:
No
Creative Commons:
Unknown

Browse...

Disciplines with similar materials as Recycling Rules: Understanding Recycling and a MRF
People who viewed this also viewed
Other materials like Recycling Rules: Understanding Recycling and a MRF

Comments

Log in to participate in the discussions or sign up if you are not already a MERLOT member.