When you walk into The Childrens Garbage Museum in Stratford Connecticut you're immediately confronted by a colorful, 12-foot-tall dinosaur made out of junk. Trash-o-saurus resembles something out of the animated movie Robots.

Pennsylvania sculptor Leo Sewell, who grew up near a dump, fashioned the seven-metre piece out of old "no parking" signs, cell phones, shoes, licence plates, sunglasses, plastic toys and anything else he could get his hands on. Visitors are given a list of things to find on the dinosaur, and it's no easy feat.

The sculpture is 2,000 pounds, representing the average amount of garbage and recyclables each person in Connecticut discards each year. Like all the exhibits, Trash-o-saurus was designed with the goal of teaching how important recycling is. Check out The Garbage Museum this Earth Day on April 22nd.