Pretend City Goes Green | Pretend City Children's Museum

An Educational Initiative focusing on going green and reducing waste in our community sponsored by OC Waste & Recycle

Pretend City Goes Green is an educational initiative designed to educate the community, grown-ups and children about the importance of waste reduction in our community. Through activities and programming that focuses on the “Four R’s” – recycling, reducing, reusing, and rebuilding, Pretend City hopes that families will be encouraged to build new habits that lend to living an environmentally sound lifestyle.

Why Go Green?

• According to the EPA, the waste produced per person per day has increased to 4.3 pounds
• Pre-packaged foods, toys, sanitary items and more are contributing to 251 million tons of waste each year
• Californian’s alone create 1.06 tons of waster per person each year

Through environmental education and eco-friendly actions these numbers can be reduced significantly.

Simply Put

Ensure that your family has a safe and healthy community for current and future generations.

Play with a Purpose

Pretend City is an environment that fosters and encourages learning through play! There are many different areas of learning that are covered when your child plays at Pretend City and now we have added one more, environmental education.

While your child explores the exhibits and works with our well trained and educated staff of early childhood educators, they will begin to have an understanding of a wide variety of concepts that will help them understand the importance of waste reduction and following the Four R’s!

Member’s Go Green

As part of our play with a purpose activities, each month there will be a specially dedicated day for our members to go green with us.

Check out this month’s days and activities:

May
• Members Go Green – Magazine Mix-Up
• Members Go Green – Newspaper Art
• Members Go Green – Crazy Crayons

June
• Members Go Green with Sid the Science Kid – Wondrous Water
• Members Go Green with Sid the Science Kid – Awesome Air
• Members Go Green with Sid the Science Kid – Lowering Landfills
• Members Go Green with Sid the Science Kid – Stump Surroundings

Our City Goes Green

Pretend City understands that in order for families to support us going green our physical environment must lend itself easily to reducing waste. To that end, Pretend City has introduced some new items to the city:
• Current recycling bins have been updated in an eye-catching design to easily identify where recyclables go
• We have introduced only green certified cleaning and sanitizing products
• All products found in our restrooms are certified as green

Our Play Partners – OC Waste & Recycling

The mission of OC Waste & Recycling is to provide Waste Management services, protect the Environment, and promote Recycling in order to ensure a safe and healthy community for current and future generations.

OC Waste & Recycling manages one of the nation’s premiere solid waste disposal systems serving 34 cities and over three million residents. On behalf of local residents and businesses, OC Waste & Recycling has developed a solid waste management system composed of a network of three active landfills and four household hazardous waste collection centers. The ‘Waste Free OC-Saving Room for Tomorrow One Choice at a Time’ campaign calls for residents to preserve our local landfill system by practicing the Three R’s: reducing, reusing and recycling.