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

The properly recycled bottles project. Justin Freedman The purpose of this project is to see how many bottles were properly recycled. Our hypothesis is if the factlty and students recieve education then the number of bottles properly recycled will go up.
 * Introduction:**

Recycle bins 1-8 Hand counter Gloves
 * Materials:**

1) Split into 4 groups, group 1: sklut center and dome group 2: outside gyms, inside cafeteria group 3: rea hall and 7th and 8th grade courtyard group 4: science building curtyard and tennis courts. 2) Walk to group 2 recycling bins. 3) Take out every plastic bottle. 4) Count every bottle. 5) Count how many caps are on the bottles and how many caps are not on the bottles and find how many bottles have liquids and how many dont have liquids. 6) Record data. 7) Return to class 8) Combine data of all 4 groups. 9) Find total percentages from all bins all over the school. 10) Put out mourning anouncement 11) 2-3 days after anouncment repeat steps 1-12. 12) Propose solution.
 * Procedure:**

Indapendent Variable: Amount of education. Dependent Variable: Amount of bottles properly recycled. Control Group: First data collection before education. Group: Second data collect group after education.


 * Data:**


 * || 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 || 74% || 4 || 11% || 8% ||

Total of all collections before announcement

Collection One (after 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% ||
 * || 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(before anounce) || 367 || 40 || 11% || 2 || 1% || 11% ||


 * Analysis:D[[image:max's_graph_for_wiki.jpg width="944" height="557" caption="max's_graph_for_wiki.jpg"]]**

During our expierment we figured out two trends. One trend was the percentage of caps stayed the same and the other trend is that percentage of caps and fluid went down three percent.

Our hypothesis was supported because before the announcement our percentage of bottles with fluid in the bottles was 14% and after the announcement it was 11%. One promblem we had was getting everybody together at the same time, which is a human error.Some challenges we had collecting data was some bottles were the same as the collection before. Our solution is providing a little pencil cup on the side of the rececycling bin so it is more convient for the recycler to properly dispose the caps.
 * Conclusion:**