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

I. Introduction:
At CCDS Middle School, there is a recycling program. This program allows students and faculty to recycle plastic bottles. Many people attempt to recycle bottles with either fluid inside or a cap still on it, which the recycling company may throw in the trash. It's possible that the recycling company may throw a way a whole group of recyclable goods do to one bad bottle. The goal of our project is to discover the percentage of misrecycled objects, educate the faculty and students, collect the percentage after the education, and propose our solution to end the problem with improperly recycling. If the students and faculty are educated, then the number of mis recycled bottles will go down.

II. Materials:
Health Risks
 * Clip board
 * Hand Counter
 * Recyle Bins
 * Gloves
 * Recycle Bins
 * Possibley a pencil cup (solution)
 * Sickness and infections from fluids
 * Possibly damage to eyes in fluid comes in contact

** III. Procedure: **
1.Go to group one recycle bins( My group 1 dome/sklut, old powerade machine__) (Group2: Inside cafeteria, outside gym) (Group 3: 7th 8th grade courtyard, Rea Halll and library) (group 4:science building courtyard, tennis courts) 2.Take every plastic bottle out of the bin 3. Count every plastic bottle and record how many 4.Count how many bottles have caps on them and then record 5.Count how many bottles have fluids 6.Determine the percentage and of bottles that have caps 7.Determine the percetage of bottles that have fluids 8.Combine data of every bottle in school from other groups 9.Combine data of every bottle with cap in school from other groups 10.Combine data of every bottle with fluids in school from other groups 11.Find total percentage of all bottles that have caps 12. Put out announcement 13. 2-3 days after announcement repeat steeps 1-8 and record. 14. Propose solution

Independent Variable: Amount of Education Dependent Variable: Amount of bottles properly recycled on campus after announcement

Control Group: The first data collection(before announcement) Expiermental Group: 2nd Collection(after announcement)

IV.Data:
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 announcement) || 367 || 40 || 11% || 2 || 1% || 11% ||

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V.Analysis:
Our graph above shows that the percent of bottles with caps stayed the same while our percent of bottles with fluids went down around two percents, which resulted in the total number of fluid and capped bottles decreasing.

= = After we concluded our research and totaled up the numbers, our graphs above show our research did agree with our hypothesis. It agreed with it because even though we the % of bottles with caps did not changed or get higher, the total amount of bottles with fluids and caps did lower. Our Human errors consisted of us not doing all the collection on the same cycle day, and our last two collections were two consecutive days. Our Expiermental errors were the diffrence in what some groups called a bottle with liquid and what the one without liquid. Another Expiermental error was we didn't know what to do if we found a cap in the bottom of the recycle bin if it wasn't attached to a bottle. The only other thing we found difficcult was having everyone able to collect data together. There were many times when some of us were able to collect but others couldn't. Our proposal is to nail a pencil cup over every bin in order to make it more convinent to throw away caps, if there's not a trash can close by.