Wednesday, April 30, 2008

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.

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