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


 * __Recycling Bin Project__

[|VOICETHREAD] THIS IS OUR VOICETHREAD

__Introduction:__**

The recycling program at the middle school is not very good. Students and faculty have put plastics in the recycling bin that isn't suppost to be there like bottles with the fluids still in them. So, my group and i have decided to find the percentage of misrecycled items, and teach everyone hear at school to collect the percentage of recycled items and think of a solution to the massive recycling problem. Our hypothesis is: if the people at school learn how to recycle properly then the number of misrecycled bottles would go down.

__**Materials:**__


 * gloves
 * hand counter
 * clip board
 * data table
 * group 1-8's recycle bins

__**Safety Concerns & Precautions:**__


 * Sickness from the fluids

__**Procedure:**__

1. Go to Group 4's recycle bin(tennis courts, science building courtyard) 2. Take every plastic bottle out of the recycling bin (Group 2) 3. Count plastic bottle and record how many 4. Count every plastic bottle then count how many bottles have caps 5. Count every bottle that has fluid in them 6. Determine the percentage of bottles that have caps 7. Determine the percentage of bottles with fluid 8. Combine data of every bottle in the school from other groups 9. Combine data of every bottle with cap in school from other groups 10. Combine data of every bottle with fluid 11. Find total percentage and ratio of all bottles that have caps 12. Put out announcement 13. 2 to 3 days after announcement repeat steps 1-8 14. Propose solution

Group 1: Dome/Sklut, Old Powerade Machine Group 2:Inside cafeteria and outside gym Group 3:7th and 8th grade courtyard and library Group 4:tennis courts and science building courtyard

Experimental Group: 2nd data collection

Control Group: First data collection

Independent Variable:amount of education

Dependent Variable: amount of bottles properly recycled on campus

__**Analyasis:**__
Collection 1(before announcement)


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

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

__** Conclusion: **__

Yes my hypothesis was supported because after we told everybody, they actually followed what we said. They recycled more of the right things. Some of the problems with our experiment was that their were too many bottles with fluids and caps in them. So, we need to start to reduce that. These are definitely human errors because we are the people who are putting these in the recycling bins. A challenge that we faced was everybody being available at the same time. A solution that i can propose is I can watch what i put in the recycling bin every time i put something in the recycling bin.