Many solid waste facilities offer tours for schools. Call your local facility or local government office of solid waste to find out if there are any tours in your area. Generally, the tour consists of a presentation to the students about how a landfill is built and maintained. They also typically discuss how some garbage is diverted to recycling facilities, as well as what happens when a landfill becomes full. The tour ends with a bus ride through the dump. It is truly a field trip your class will never forget. Seeing the size of landfill and the amount to garbage gives people a sense of why it’s so important to reduce waste.