Education Opportunities

Frederick County Recycling encourages schools, clubs, scouts, homeschoolers and other community groups to learn more about solid waste management, recycling and programs which protect the environment by touring the regional landfill.

Please telephone 665-5643, ext. 1 at least two weeks in advance. Lesson plans and environmental education support materials are available upon request. 

Landfill Exploration

Check out this video for a quick exploration of the Frederick County Regional Landfill. It was prepared by a group of Millbrook High School seniors in cooperation with landfill and public works staff.

Recycling Matters

The cans, plastic bottles, paper and cardboard you recycle each day create raw materials for industry, not only sparing valuable recyclables from the trash, but creating jobs, reducing litter and saving natural resources. Here's how your old plastic bottles are made into new carpeting!

Also, take a look at how your recycled soda cans are made into new cans and return to the grocer's shelf in just 60 days!

Conserve the Chesapeake Bay

We all live downstream. Each action we take that affect our local waterways, be it litter, chemicals applied to our lawns and gardens, or run-off during heavy storm events, all impact the bay. The good news? There are many ways that you can learn more about the bay, the critters that call it home and ways to protect our local and ultimately, bay waters.

The river that first comes to mind in this area is the Shenandoah. Its health is critical not only to our community as a source of drinking water, recreation, and wildlife habitat, but the entire bay watershed as the Shenandoah makes its way to the Potomac. A local grass-roots organization, Friends of the Shenandoah, became the first effort of its kind to conduct on-going water monitoring and protection in the bay watershed in 1989. Find out how to volunteer your time at water monitoring.

Get your hands dirty and your feet wet. Join a river or stream cleanup. Find out more about volunteering and environmental success stories along the Potomac and its tributaries at conservation success.

Discover the abundance of critters that call the Chesapeake Bay and its shores home. Find out more about healthy fish habitat. View videos about what you can do to protect bay life -- from the importance of oysters as water filters to the health of bay grasses and the conservation of tree buffers along the bay at learn at home student investigations.