The Garbage Museum!

Today Christina (4 year old) and I went on a field trip for her preschool to the Garbage Museum! I'm not making this up, there really is a Garbage Musuem! The picture below proves it!

It was a pretty cool place! They started off by telling us ways that we can use the food we don't eat to make soil. They showed the kids how you can put fruits, veggies, egg shells, etc into an outside or inside container and that the bugs will make amazing soil for you! This is the top of a little place that you can go inside that has fake bugs and fake food in it that you can touch, the top has ants, snails, slugs, and worms crawling on all the food and soil.

Here's Christina inside touching I think a slug...

Then they showed us this container that you can have inside your house that has red worms in it, this is also for soil purposes... It was pretty gross, they wanted us to smell it, it smelled like dirt, which is the point they were trying to get across, basically they were saying that it is insect poo, but it's amazing soil...

Ok right when you walk in you see this guy, this is Trashysaurus. He's made from only stuff that this one guy found dumpster diving. Some of the stuff looks brand new and some of it definitely should have stayed in the trash! It weighs 2 thousands pounds because I guess that's how much garbage the average person throws away...I don't know...

Here's his side:

Look at that poor little doll stuck in there...

Here's Christina hugging the dinosaur's leg

And here we both are in front of him...

I have no clue what this is, but it was pretty cool because that's all soda cans...

Here's Chrstina being such a good student! This is when they were teaching us about recycling and what all can and can't be recycled, I learned a lot! Well of course I'm kind of a dummy when it comes to recycling so there technically is a lot that I need to learn!

Here's where all the stuff gets dumped off of the trucks before it's sorted

Here's a truck dumping stuff...

The kids loved looking through the windows...

Here's the huge piles of Cardboard...

These are soda cans...

Those are only milk jugs...

Detergent bottles...

Me and cute Christina! This was right after we watched a movie about recycling rex, a dinosaur that learns to recycle to save a field from become a landfill...

And then here's Christina's "Please stop taking pictures" face on the bus ride home, she was really tired...