At-Home Activity #5
Disappearing Trash
Stuff you will need:
An apple core
A leaf of lettuce (any kind)
A piece of plastic wrap
A piece of Styrofoam
A smaller size shovel

What to do:
1. Find a spot where you are aloud to dig four holes.
2. Dig your four holes. They have to be wide enough to put something in.
3. Place the leaf of lettuce, the apple core, plastic wrap, and Styrofoam each in their own hole.
4. Fill the holes up with dirt.
5. Make sure you can find them again, you should mark the spot you buried them.
6. In a month or so dig them up again.
7. The apple and the lettuce should be gone, but the other things will be there!

What You'll See: Materials that are biodegradable, like the apple core and the lettuce leaf, will break down and go back to the earth. Then they'll help other things grow! But things like the plastic and Styrofoam don't become part of the earth again. They'll remain litter for a long time...maybe even forever!
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