Just in case you see a sign on your plastic item and you don't know what it is, here is the answer!
Today Claire and Hugo continued working on the presentation but at the end of class, all of us was working on it together. We also asked the cleaning lady where she puts all the recycled plastic and she told us that she put it down in the basketball plastic recycling bins. At lunch time Claire is going to ask Mr. Musco if he knows who picks up all the plastic and where it goes. If he does, we will do further research about that company that picks up the rubbish. I was working on the website, uploading pictures and videos, and Adam was figuring out a way to raise awareness at school without creating posters because we found out that people read the posters but they don’t really take action. We found that tetra pak is a type of marital, that is the material that milk is packaged in, that can be recycled into building material so we thought it would be a good idea to use that at school. Pictures of Tetra PakToday we got all our information on the weebly. We also started our presentation that Claire and Hugo are working on. Adam is finding where the recycled plastic is actually going from our school and if it is actually being recycled. I was working on the home work chart and calculating how much lunch plastic bottle waste are going in the bin and how much we can recycle. Here are the home work chart and the calculations in kilograms. Home Work SheetToday I think we all got a big amount of work done. Hugo helped Claire with finishing the graph about all the information we gathered. in the 2nd of December. Adam and I worked on the life cycle of a plastic bottle and we got it done. Adam is still working out where we will put all of our recycled plastic bottles . I think that is our main goal next time is to get a plastic recycling company to take our plastic bottles to recycle. Claire also send a email to Mr. Dare about what happens to the plastic bottles the school recycles. Life Cycle of a Plastic BottleLunch Time Waste from Middle School on 1/12Today we went down to the basketball court where the grade 11’s collected all the lunch waste yesterday. We first weighed all the plastic, paper and food/cans. We then separated it to recyclable plastic, recyclable aluminum/metal and the non recyclable things. When we came back to the classrooms Claire and Hugo worked on created a graph about all the measurements of the plastic, paper and food/cans and Adam and I worked on the plastic cycle. Pictures from 2/11 Lunch Time Waste Sorting |