What happens to buried garbage? How does garbage change? What problems does garbage cause? By taking a trip to a recycling center, landfill and town dump kids will come to understand what happens to trash and garbage after they throw it away. The program focuses on the environmental problems created by solid waste and offers suggestions for ways to alleviate the problem. Children will come to understand that through daily conservation methods, people can control the amount of waste they produce.

Originally released by Mazzarella Media, 2014. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on July 20, 2016.

Earth's Recycling System (1:35); --Where does Garbage go? (6:17); -- Recycling (3:19); -- Waste Review (0:23); -- Credits: Trash and the Environment: Real World Science (REVISED) (0:36); .