Mummy Style Trash
May 3, 2008 by Jennifer
Mummies and our current trash situation are a lot alike. If you’re working on teaching your younger kids about biodegradability, then the mummy slant works nicely.
Biodegrade: at the most basic means to rot (decompose), and vanish, leaving no trace. Trash, like mummies is tough stuff, hard to rot, hard to make vanish completely.
We know that Egyptians buried their leaders and in some cases family members in mummy fashion. We also know that we bury our trash in landfills.
The mummies were buried in places devoid of air, sunlight, and water. So is our trash. Not the trash on top of the pile, but trash on the top of the pile, becomes trash on the bottom of the pile quickly.
When it comes to mummies, we’ve found some in perfectly good shape (for a dead fellow) that are thousands of years old. In thousands of years, how nice of shape will our trash be in? If you’re talking bottom of the barrel, odd are, some will be in pretty good shape.
What to do instead of tossing trash in a landfill:
- Don’t buy an item in the first place, unless it’s recyclable.
- Recycle everything you can.
- Reuse items or buy used or recycled when possible.
Mummies are fun to find, cool to see, and can teach us great facts about history. I doubt we’ll be saying the same about the cool-whip container our great, great, great grandkids find.
- Are You Recycling?
- Recycling Video for Smaller Kids
- Trash Control & What Can’t be Recycled
- Trash Control & What Can’t be Recycled
To explore mummies visit the following resources:
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Great post. Too bad termites don’t eat some of this stuff.
You know you’d think they’d be good for something