Trash or Treasure

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Length: 3 minutes

The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in Harrisburg are working together to provide elementary school students with information about environmental conservation. “Trash or Treasure,” an interactive game show full of interesting presentations and prizes, introduces young students to the three R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

The game show combines science and art, a mixture that appeals to children and effectively educates at the same time. The program is geared at impacting young students as Pennsylvania’s next generation of consumers.

Governor Ridge supports this effort and hopes that it will help with his goal of increasing Pennsylvania’s recycling rate from 32% to 35% by the year 2003. “Trash or Treasure” looks like a very promising aid for achieving this goal.

Host Wendy Wastenot holds the show Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. and on Sundays at 1:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. at the Big Science Theatre. The admission ticket for the Whitaker Center covers entrance into Wendy Wastenot’s show.

For more information about the Science Center, explore www.whitakercenter.org, and to learn more about DEP, go to www.dep.state.pa.us.