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The Office of Sustainability Schools Program has a lot of different games that test your waste reduction knowledge and teach you how to protect the environment while having fun!
In this online game, you will learn about the waste management system and follow the pathways that garbage, recyclables, organics, and reusable stuff follow as they travel from our towns and cities.
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Test your knowledge of which materials go in your blue recycling, green compost, and black garbage carts in the RethinkWaste service area.
Email us at sustainability@smcgov.org to get any of the games below to play at school or at home!
Make decisions about waste reduction and the waste management system in order to move through the winding pathway from start to finish.
Video: How to Play This Game!
In this graphic organizer game, fill in the spaces by determining what natural resource a waste item is made from and where it goes when it’s time to let it go!
Video: How to Play This Game!
Follow the pathways of garbage, recyclables, organics, and reusable stuff after they get picked up and moved from our homes, schools, parks, and businesses.
Developed by the County of Marin, the Game of Floods is an educational game on sea level rise adaptation.