1996 - Recycle Center's "Recyclamania" Educational Interactive Exhibit

1996

"Burbank City Council member Bill Wiggins helped unveil 'Recyclamania,' the city's new interactive exhibit. It features a ceiling-high 'learning tree' and a walk-in compost bin constructed entirely from cans, bottles, bedsprings, phone books, clothes and other discards. The learning tree's panels open to reveal an educational dispay on a computer, video screens and a microscope observing worms at work. Nestled in its aluminum can leaves, a plexiglass road carries two recycling trucks bussing along their routes. Inside the glowing compost bin, leaves and grass gradually 'decompose' into fresh soil, aided by fungi, bacteria and animated flies. Designed by artists Ted Baumgart and Kreigh Hampel, 'Recyclamania' enlarges a user-friendly center that has attracted visitors from around the world since it opened in 1992." -LA Times Articles from March 19, 1996

500 S. Flower Street, Burbank 91502

• Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
• Ribbon cuttings
• Interactive Exhibits
• Education
• Wiggins, Bill
• Recycling
• Waste Management
• 1990s
• Public Works

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Burbank Public Library, Burbank in Focus Office

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Burbank Public Library, Burbank in Focus Office