It's Your Planet Too - Ep4: Fuel from Trash
Science: Year 6
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9m 34s
What Happens to Your Garbage? Making, fuel From Trash Using Hyper-Speed and Composting. You probably know that we humans make a lot of garbage. We use stuff and we throw it away, everyday. You may also know that we use a lot of fuel, especially fossil fuels like coal to create electricity for our homes and buildings, and oil to make gasoline for our cars. You’re probably already learning about how we need to recycle our waste, and reduce the number of fossil fuels we use. But what you may not know is that there are people who are working on a solution to all these problems, using technology we’ve had since the 1800s!! Today we’re going to go back in time, and explore how we can create sustainable, clean fuel from all the garbage we make everyday.
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