Mummy Style Trash

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 …read more