Kids Make Recycling Video for Schools
Meet Larry Landfill, anchor puppet of “The Larry Landfill News.
“The Larry Landfill News” is a 20-minute video of a broadcast-news-style show in which a friendly puppet pops out of a yellow city recycling bin to teach youngsters about the recycling programs offered by the city of Los Angeles.
The video, distributed free to elementary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District and to many churches, temples and youth organizations, is the brainchild of Taffy Patton, a teacher in the magnet program at Vena Avenue School in Arleta.
Patton gathered 15 current and former students to put together the news show.
“It was a blast to make,” she said.
The students took three days to make the video at a studio provided by a local cable-TV company. The children also taped a public service announcement to be aired on television, Patton said.
The video project was sponsored by the L.A. Resource Program, a division of the city’s Bureau of Sanitation.
“We want to get them in the habit of recycling, to get them when they are young,” said Judy Boasberg, spokeswoman for the program.
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