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A one-ton dinosaur made disclosed of trash, five-foot earthworms that make their firesides in a 16-foot compost pile and a game-show mode of address cage where visitors will be shielded in "clean garbage" are among the star attractions at the Children's Garbage Museum and Education Center of southern west Connecticut in Stratford.

The just-completed, 5,000-square-foot center features a learning laboratory, amphitheater, 125-foot skywalk above the adjacent recycling plant and 15 interactive, hands-on exhibits to help teach youngsters for what cause to reduce, reuse, recycle and rethink throw,away lifestyles.

The focal point of the exhibit is a 24-foot-long one-ton "Trash-osaurus," a brontosaurus made entirely from advanced in years irons, used toys, car scraps, worn out sporting equipment and other pieces of trash. Sculptor Leo Sewell, Beitel Displays, Philadelphia, supervised a team of artists who scroung the highways of the city, collected non, recyclable items sent to