Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Waste Audit

Class Room Trash
Students from the other CM
MA class were in charge of doing this activity. Their task was to go around the school and collect the trash from the classes. There was a lot of trash and students did a good job collecting lots of trash.


Weighing The Bag
Students after weighed the bag of trash that they collected. All the garbage together about 5 to 8 pounds.



Dumping Trash On The Tarp
After weighing the trash, the students dumped the whole bag of garbage onto the tarp.


Sorting The Trash
After dumping the trash onto the tarp it had to be sorted. The trash had to be sorted into different piles for the different types of trash. Seperate piles for bottles,paper,and food.


Weighing The Piles
The piles all together including paper,food,bottles, and other types of trash weighed all about 8 pounds. Paper was about 50% of the trash,food about 20%,about 20% bottles, and about 10% of other trash.


Classrooms can reduce consumption and disposal of materials more by putting recycling bins for every type of material in all the hallways and around the campus. Also putting recyling boxes in all the classrooms. Most of the materials can be applied to the 4R's. All the paper can be recycled. The food scraps can be decomposed. Bottles can also be recycled. Classrooms should focus more on diverting paper and bottles.

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