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 * __How Hand Dryers instead of Paper Towels Could Reduce the MSW on Bissel Campus__

Introduction:** There is a lot of muncipal solid waste on Bissel Campus, and my group plans on tackling this. Our main focus is on the waste coming from all the bathrooms on campus. We want to see if it would be better to have hand dryers versus paper towels. Paper towels can not be recycled once used, so this causes a lot of waste which can be easily stopped if we install hand dryers in the bathrooms.

If the amount of paper towel dispensers our reduced and replaced with blow dryers, then the amount of municipal solid waste on campus would reduce

1. Scale ( Provided by Mr. Keilty) 2. Garbage bags for collecting the paper towels waste 3. GPS unit to mark bathroom locations
 * Materials:**

Saftey Concerns & Guidelines to follow: 1. The paper towels in the bathrooms might be contaminate with chemicals, so keep hands away from face. #15 2.Conduct our selves in a responsible mannor at all times. #1 3. Follow written procedure carefully. #2 4. Never work alone. #3 1. Gather all materials 2. Determine how many bathrooms are on Bissel Campus Approximatley 26 bathrooms on Bissel Campus
 * Procedure:**
 * 1 in Mrs. Preiss ' room
 * 2 lunch hallway
 * 2 locker rooms
 * 2 in Foreign Language building
 * 3 in trailers
 * 2 in teacher lounge
 * 6 in 5th/6th grade hall
 * 3 downstairs in Science Building
 * 3 upstairs in Science Building
 * 2 in 8th grade hall

3. Measure the amount of paper towel waste from all middle school bathrooms in one week with a scale 4. Avergage to get a daily amount of paper towel waste from the bathrooms 5. Determine the amount of paper waste the school could save if we switched over from paper towels to hand dryers

Amount of Trash in Bathrooms On Campus Average amount of trash in bathrooms per day= 1.325 lbs Approximate amount of trash from bathrooms per year that could be completely negated= 222.6 lbs
 * Data:**
 * || Day 1 || Day 2 || Day 3 || Day 4 ||
 * Weight Before Blowdryers (lbs) || 0.8 || 1.4 || 1.8 || 1.3 ||
 * Weight After Blowdryers (lbs) || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 ||
 * Analysis:

** Our results show that over a span of four days of collecting, the amount of paper waste that came from all the bathrooms varied. On the first day of collecting we got a little less than a pound, but on the next three days we got over a pound. The reason the data varied is because we collected at different times on each four days so this left different amounts of time for people to throw their paper towels away.

In our experiment we proved that if the amount of paper towel despinsers our reduced and replaced with blow dryers, then the amount of paper towel waste in the bathrooms would reduce. Our solution to this problem, installing blowdryers, would reduce the amount of paper towel waste to zero. Some errors that we had with the expirement were that we did not collect at the same times every day which made the amount of paper towels that we collected vary. On one day we collected during the morning which gave us less paper towels, and on the other days we collected during the afternoon so this gave us more paper towels. Some challanges that we faced were collecting the trash. This made it harder for us to pour the paper towels directly from the can to the bag. Our solution shows that it could dramatically reduce the amount of paper towel waste to zero. We would get rid of the need to use paper towels in the bathroom.
 * Conclusion:**

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