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 * MSW Created by the Middle School Bookstore

I. Introduction**

Martin Lee and I have noticed that many products sold on the Middle School Bookstore are not eco- friendly so we are trying to make it more friendly to the environment. We want to reduce the amount of waste created by our school by changing some of the products sold in the Bookstore. My hypothesis is that if we change some of the products sold in the Bookstore, then a lot of the waste created by our school will go down and make our school more eco- friendly. We would be buying products that are recyclable or that are made from recycled materials.

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 * II. Materials**
 * Middle School Bookstore
 * Mrs. Allford (Bookstore lady)
 * Catalog
 * Products in the Middle School Bookstore


 * III. Procedure-**

1. Walk to the Middle School Bookstore in the 8th grade hall 2. Ask bookstore lady about her products and collect a list of her inventory 3. Ask which products are most often bought and if they are eco-friendly 4. Look around the bookstore for products 5. Research the products and see if any of them are made out of recycled material or can be re-used 6. See how much students buy every day 7. Walk back to science classroom 8. Get a computer and research eco- friendly products that are sold in the Middle School bookstore 9. Think of ways non eco-friendly products could be exchanged for eco-friendly products 10. Talk to the bookstore lady about our ideas about what products could be exchanged for more eco-friendly products

Independent Variable: Recyclable pencils sold in the Middle School Bookstore Dependent Variable: The amount of pencil 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 aren’t recyclable or biodegradable ||   ||   ||   ||
 * 1' Binder ||  || 4 ||   || 406.7g ||   || 40,670g ||   |||||||||||| plastic on the outside that is not recyclable or biodegradable ||   ||   ||
 * Spiral Notebook || 16 ||  || 456.3g ||   || 182,520g ||   |||||||||||||| notebook is not recyclable or biodegradable because of plastic on the cover ||   ||

25 seven day cycles in a year= 242,165g
 * V. Analysis-**

This graph shows that if we change our products from the ones we use now to these how much waste we will stop from being created. The only thing that would evolve cooperation is the recycling of the new products.
 * Eco-friendly Bookstore ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Item ||  ||   ||   |||||| Total mass of waste |||| Description ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * PM Biodegradable pencil ||  || 0 kgs biodegradable ||   ||   |||||||||||||| this product will biodegrade when it is put in the ground producing zero waste ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Earthview Binder ||  ||   |||| 0 kgs recyclable ||   |||||||||||| this product will produce less or zero waste if recycled correctly ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Eco-friendly notebook ||  |||| 0 kgs recyclable ||   |||||||||||||||||||||||| this is a sugarcane based product so it doesn't use trees to make the notebook. Sugarcane grows back very fast while trees don't ||
 * Eco-friendly notebook ||  |||| 0 kgs recyclable ||   |||||||||||||||||||||||| this is a sugarcane based product so it doesn't use trees to make the notebook. Sugarcane grows back very fast while trees don't ||

Yes my hypothesis was supported because if we do end up changing our products then we will be creating a lot less waste. Some of the problems with my experiment are that even though these new products are recyclable and biodegradable that is not saying that everyone will take advantage of that. The data we have presented is amusing that every student follows the guide lines to the new products. I don't think that every recyclable product bought will be recycled nor do I think that every biodegradable product bought will be put in the ground. These are human errors. Some challenges I faced finding data were finding products we could change. I had to, go to the Bookstore, find items that are available in either biodegraded or recycled form, and make sure they were available for the Bookstore to buy in its catalogs. If we switch to these new products then we will be creating a remarkably less amount of waste. Even though it might cost a little more to buy these new products it will be worth it in the long run.
 * VI.** **Conclusion-**

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