Waste Audit Blog

This activity consisted on weighting the trash displayed, which was gathered from the school, also to store the different kinds of garbage in bins to weight the amount of every different trash. It was interesting learning the different kinds of trash that is thrown in the school, since many garbage was in moderate conditions that could have been reused. It seems that students don't care about our ecosystem.



The bag containing a big amount of garbage weighted 8.1 pounds. The idea to weight the bag with the garbage was to consider the weight of all the kinds of trash mixed together, without separating ans class of trash.



After weighting the bag full of trash, the garbage was dumped to the floor, which was covered of plastic bags. The trash was duped in the floor in order to classify each type of trash that the bag contained. These different kinds of trash were set in different bins.


The purpose of dumping the trash on the trap, was to sort the different kinds of garbage that the bag contained. Common trash kinds were found as, paper, plastic bottles, gum, left over food and food wraps.





Every pile of trash was weighted in different bins. All these different materials were put in a bin separately, to weight them, and take the amount of trash of each kind weighted on the bag full of trash.




If every person in the world puts just a little of their will to help our ecosystem this world would last more. Classrooms can reduce consumption and disposal of materials by using the material until it does not work anymore, and get well benefit from it by using it as many times as it can be used. Many people buy the same materials they have already without using them. If we could be more sensitive of our community and care about our surroundings we could have more benefits in the future, because wasting extra materials that we don't need will someday extinguish those materials. The four R's can be applied in the materials gathered from the school.
We can reduce the waste of food, there was many left over food thrown, the paper can be reuse since many paper had just a little writing. The paper can be recycled as well as the plastic bottles, and the food wraps. Finally we can use the grass that is been thrown in the garbage to rot and make compost. Classes should focus on diverting the amount of paper and food being thrown, without using them wisely, and the food not been eaten.

Litter Survey

Based on pictures that several students took of Tennyson High School's areas before and after lunch. A litter survey let us know the changes of contamination in our school before and after lunch. Before lunch the school was not invaded of many litter. By the administration wing not a single litter was shown, as in the grass knoll. Many other ares like the quad area were clean.



After lunch the areas ,such as grass knolls between hall ways, were completely clean before lunch, were covered by litter. In just an hour the school was a mess. It is very hard to believe how we humans make a dump of our community, not thinking of our own health.

Recycling At Home

At home I practice the 4 R's, and i think everyone should do that too. In my home we reduce electricity, when nobody is watching t.v or using a room, televisions are turned off as well as light. When a clothing does not fit me anymore and are in good conditions i give them to my sister so she can take advantage of them. Recycling is a very important thing too, I have a bin to recycle glass, bottles, plastic and stuff that can be recycle to get benefit from. Also I have a different bin of yard waste, which we use to throw grass or plants that can be rot.

Persuing World's Contamination At Tennyson

Saving Earth is an important fact, all humans should stop and think for a second.
Earth is getting contaminated more and more everyday, we are killing our own future our child's future. this blog is to invite people to recycle, reduce, reuse, and rot. In Tennyson High School recycling does not work very well. SLWRP stands out for Service Learning Waste Reduction Program. It is very important that the 4 R's are followed. the 4 R's are Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot. You can reduce by not wasting material you don't need, you can reuse by buying or using material that had already been used but that are in well conditions, you can recycle bottles, aluminum, paper, glass, plastic and many other materials that can be made again. Tennyson students need to get involved in this because a person more following this steps is a help for our community, for our world.