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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SIGNAGE

Dean Lovett Science 1 3-1-10

Intro:

Today in the US, trash is a serious problem. Over the years our country has increased its recycling, but there are still things that are being thrown away that could be recyled. If Daniel, Lizzie, Alec, and I tape signs on trash cans reminding them to recycle then students will increase there recylcing because the signs that are placed above the trash cans will persuade the students to recycle.

Materials:

Paper Tape Trashcans Laptop GPS

Safett Concerns:
 * To wear gloves when you reach in the trash cans so you dont carry/spread bacteria
 * Be careful so that you dont cut your hand on sharp objects that could be in the trash cans

Safety Guideline Numbers:
 * 2
 * 15
 * 26
 * 45
 * Number of recycleable || Day 1 no signs || Day 2 || Day3 ||
 * Lamonica || 2 || 12 || 8 ||
 * Wolf || 4 || 8 || 14 ||
 * Kiplinger || 4 || 6 || 4 ||
 * Mancia || 4 || 2 || 5 ||
 * Rattery || 4 || 4 || 8 ||
 * Thorn || 10 || 4 || 2 ||
 * Crews || 3 || 1 || 6 ||
 * Dennis || 6 || 3 || 1 ||
 * Warren || 2 || 2 || 1 ||
 * Rich || 9 || 2 || 0 ||
 * Cramer || 7 || 4 || 1 ||
 * Findley || 4 || 7 || 2 ||
 * Magarity || 9 || 1 || 0 ||
 * Average || 5.2 || 4.3 || 4.0 ||

Analysis: On the graph it shows that once the members in our group posted signs on the trashcans; the numbers of recyclables in trashcans decreased. The first day of the experiment had an average of 5.2 recyclables in the trashcans without signs. Then on the second and third day the amount of recyclables in trashcans decreased to a total average of 4.15 as you can see on the graph below.

Conclusion: Once we found our data we saw that our hypothesis supported our graph and the data table. The data table and the graph both proove that having signs on trash cans reminding them to recycle increases the number of recylables in recycling bins and decreases the number of recyclables in trash cans. The erros we had in the experiment were that we recorded data on the wrong trashcans and that was a human error. Some challenges we had were that some members in our group did not want to reach in the trash cans to collect data and some felt awkward to interupt classrooms to retrieve the trashcans. The solutions we had to these challenges were that we used gloves to reach in the trash cans and we politley told teachers that we were collecting data for our science project.