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

Introduction:** The purpose of this project is to figure out how good our CCDS community is at recycling bottles. Our hypothesis is if the faculty and students recieved education then the number of bottles properly recycled will go up.
 * Middle School's bottle recycling project

Safety Risks Procedure: 1. We split the 8 people into four groups.( group 2) 2. Walk to group 2 recycling bins(outside gym and inside cafeteria) 3.Group 3 goes to their recycling bins.(rea hall and courtyard) 4.Group 1 goes to their recycling bins.(sklut/dome and old powerade machines) 5.Group 4 goes to their recycing bins.(science building court yard and tennis courts) 6. Take every plastic bottle out of the recycling bin. 7. Count every bottle. 8. Count how many bottles have caps or fluid on/in them. 9. record data and show the percentage of bottles with caps to bottles without caps and bottles without fluids in them to bottles with fluid. 10.return to class 11. combine data of all four groups. 12. find total percentages to see how many people take off caps and pour out fluids. 13.Put on morning anouncements. 14.2 or 3 days after anouncement repeat steps 1-12 and record 15. propose solution.
 * Materials:**
 * clip board
 * hand counter
 * gloves
 * recycling bins
 * Sickness from fluids
 * Fluids in your eyes

Independent variable: Amount of Education Dependent variable: Amount of bottles properly recycled on campus after anouncement

Control group: The first data collection(before anouncement) Experimental group: 2nd collection(after anouncement)

Collection 1(before anouncement)


 * || Total bottles || bottles w/ caps || % of cap bottles || bottles w/ fluid || % of fluid bottles || % of fluid + % caps ||
 * Group 1 || 12 || 6 || 50% || 1 || 8% || 58% ||
 * Group 2 || 117 || 18 || 10% || 7 || 6% || 21% ||
 * Group 3 || 68 || 16 || 24% || 3 || 4% || 28% ||
 * Group 4 || 5 || 2 || 40% || 0 || 0% || 40% ||
 * Total( all groups) || 202 || 42 || 21% || 11 || 5% || 26% ||

Collection 2(before announcement)


 * || Total bottles || bottles w/ caps || % of cap bottles || bottles w/ fluid || % of fluid bottles || % of fluid + % caps ||
 * Group 1 || 105 || 9 || 9% || 2 || 2% || 10% ||
 * Group 2 || 53 || 3 || 6% || 1 || 2% || 8% ||
 * Group 3 || 67 || 4 || 6% || 1 || 1% || 7% ||
 * Group 4 || 48 || 1 || 2% || 0 || 0% || 2% ||
 * Total( all groups) || 273 || 17 || 6% || 4 || 1% || 8% ||

Total of all collections before announcement


 * || Bottles || of cap botls || % of cap botls || of botls w/ fluid || % of fld bottles || % of fld + btls ||
 * Total(before anounce) || 475 || 52 || 11% || 15 || 3% || 14% ||

Collection One (after announcement)
 * || Total Bottles || Bottles w/ Caps || % of Cap Bottles || Bottles w/ fluid || % of Fluid Bottles || % of Caps + % of Bottles ||  ||
 * Group 1 || 50 || 12 || 24% || 1 || 2% || 26% ||  ||
 * Group 2 || 70 || 3 || 4% || 1 || 1% || 6% ||  ||
 * Group 3 || 22 || 3 || 13% || 0 || 0% || 13% ||  ||
 * Group 4 || 38 || 5 || 13% || 0 || 0% || 13% ||  ||
 * Total || 180 || 23 || 13% || 2 || 1% || 14% ||  ||

Collection Two (after announcement) Total of Collections after announcement
 * || Total Bottles || Bottles w/ Caps || % of Cap Bottles || Bottles w/ fluid || % of Fluid Bottles || % of Caps + % of Bottles ||  ||
 * Group 1 || 58 || 2 || 3% || 0 || 0% || 3% ||  ||
 * Group 2 || 18 || 2 || 11% || 0 || 0% || 11% ||  ||
 * Group 3 || 37 || 7 || 19% || 0 || 0% || 19% ||  ||
 * Group 4 || 74 || 6 || 8% || 0 || 0% || 8% ||  ||
 * Total || 187 || 17 || 9% || 0 || 0% || 9% ||  ||
 * || Bottles || # of cap botls || % of cap botls || # of botls w/ fluid || % of fld bottles || % of fld + btls ||
 * Total(after anounce) || 367 || 40 || 11% || 2 || 1% || 11% ||


 * Analysis:**​

1. Some of the trends of the graph are that the amount of bottles stayed the same for the most part and the amount of caps stayed the same, but the amount of fluid in the bottles changed a lot. That made the total % for the second run go down a lot.

Our hypothesis was supported because before the anouncement of caps and fluids was 14%, but then after the anouncement then percentage of bottles with caps and fluid went down to 11%. One of the problems that we had was getting everyone togeather at the same time to collect infomation, which is a human error. Some issues we had in collecting information is that we collected 2 days in a row and collected infpormation for the same bottles twice which just made our information not as good. Our soultion for our issue was to attatch cups onto the recycling bins for people to put there caps into so we can properly dispose the caps and be able to rececyle correctly.
 * Conclusion:**