8+Science+3+Martin's+MSW+Project

I. __Introduction-__

Charlotte Country Day School produces a lot of watse everyday. Much of the waste is made either in the cafeteria, classrooms, or the middle school bookstore. In my 2010 MSW project, Tom Hunter and I chose the middle school bookstore for our experiment. We chose the bookstore because lots of students buy things from the bookstore and the productrs they buy turn into waste. The purpose of our experiment is to make the middle school bookstore more eco-friendly. We can make the bookstore more eco-friendly by having "green" or biodegradeble products put in the bookstore and having these products for sale. Our hypothesis for this experiment is, if we change some of the products in the bookstore then, a lot of the waste created by our school will go down and make our school more eco-freindly.

II. __Materials-__
 * Bookstore products
 * Catalog
 * Mrs. Allford
 * Middle School Bookstore
 * CCDS pencil
 * 1 inch white binder
 * CCDS notebook

Saftey Concerns- None

III. __Procedure__ 1. Walk to the middle school bookstore that is in the 8th grade hall 2. Ask Mrs. Allford about her products 3. Get a list of the inventory of the items in the bookstore 4. See if anything in the inventory is eco- friendly 5. Ask for sales records for each item 6. Look around the bookstore for products 7. Research the products and see if any of the are made out of recycled material or can be re-used 8. See how much students buy everyday 9. Walk back to the classroom 10. Get a computer 11. Research eco-friendly products that are sold in the Middle School bookstore 12. Find eco-friendly products 13. Go back to the bookstore and talk to Mrs. Allford about our ideas for different items that are more eco-friendly

Independent Variable- Recyclable pencils, notebooks, and binders sold in the Middle School Bookstore Dependent Variable- Amount of pencil, notebook, binder waste produced by the bookstore

__IV. Data:__
 * Item ||  |||| Amount sold in cycle |||| Single mass |||| Total mass |||| Description ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Pencil ||  || 138 ||   || 5.5g ||   || 18,975g ||   |||||||||| made of wood that aren’t recycleable or biodegradeable ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 1' Binder ||  || 4 ||   || 406.7g ||   || 40,670g ||   |||||||||||| plastic on the outside that is not recycleable or biodegradeable ||   ||   ||
 * Spiral Notebook || 16 ||  || 456.3g ||   || 182,520g ||   |||||||||||||| notebook is not recycleable or biodegradeable because of plactic on the cover ||   ||

__V. Analysis:__ 25 seven day cycles in a year- 242,165 kgs
 * Eco Friendly Bookstore ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Item ||  ||   ||   |||| Total mass of waste ||   ||   |||| Description ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * PM Biodegradeble pencil ||  || 0 kgs ||   ||   ||   |||||||||||| This product will biodegrade when it is put in the ground ||   ||   ||
 * Earthview binder ||  ||   |||| 0 kgs recyclable ||   ||   |||||||||||||| This product will produce less or zero waste if recycled properly ||   ||
 * Eco-friendly Notebook ||  ||   |||||||| 0 kgs recyclable and doesn't use trees |||||||||||||||| This is a sugarcane based product so it doesn't use trees to make notebook ||
 * Eco-friendly Notebook ||  ||   |||||||| 0 kgs recyclable and doesn't use trees |||||||||||||||| This is a sugarcane based product so it doesn't use trees to make notebook ||

__VI. Conclusion:__

In the experiment Tom and I conducted our hypthesis was supported. It was supported because we took three regular products from the bookstore and measured how much waste they created; then we found a better, eco-friendly product that can replace the three items. These products were either biodegradeble or recyclable and created less or no waste. In the experiment there were some errors. One experimental error was that the procedure said to ask and get sales records for each item in the bookstore. But that was too many products so we only did research three items. Another error in the experiment was a human error. The human error was that we didn't go down to the bookstore to talk to Mrs. Allford about our ideas about the new products we found. Some challenges we faced during our experiment when we were collecting data were, that we had trouble coming up with ideas about how to see how much the bookstore wastes. Some solutions we are proposing to make the bookstore more eco-friendly are putting and selling; papermate biodegradeble pencils, earthview binders, and, eco-friendly notebooks in the Middle School Bookstore.

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