Recycle This!

Team: 125

School: Tibbetts Middle School

Area of Science: Environmental science

Interim: Team: 125
School: Tibbetts Middle School
City: Farmington
State: New Mexico
Team Members: Jacob Hensley, Jesse Duarte
Date 12/2/09
There is a problem in Farmington. We don’t recycle, It has become a crisis and we want to get people to start, but How can we encourage our community to participate? First, you have to identify what the actual problem is. Is it that the residents do not know about the recycle program or they choose not to participate or that they do not know how to go about getting a recycle container. This is our problem and these are the things we are going to do to achieve it.
My Colleague and I have found a way to solve this crisis. We are going to identify the problem through research, we believe the problem could be a combination of all three issues that we have identified (does not know about the recycle program, chooses not to participate, or does not know how to obtain the containers). To do this we will encourage the citizens of Farmington to recycle through education and knowledge of the earth dying with out eliminating our carbon foot print. To encourage this behavior we are going to start putting posters up through out town, emailing our teachers to get them to spread the word. We have been invited to talk on the local radio about this problem. Getting the word out to our community is priority. This will help us to achieve are goal and to get people to recycle in their homes and the homes of their friends and families. Our goal is to convince the citizens of Farmington to recycle and help save our planet, because without the help of EVERYONE, our planet will soon come to an end.
We have researched the amount of Farmington's recycling and the nation as a whole. The progress that we have made before this time contains our proposal, and some research on the land fills with the amount of pounds of recycling Rio Rancho has recycled.
We are about to start our simulation . What we are hoping for are results. The ultimate goal would be to have at least 10% more people recycling than are currently participating. Our recourses contain at least more in recycling thats are plan so far.
Some of the questions we will ask personally are, how many pounds of trash and recycling do we get a year, What is the availability of recycling bins, were does all the recycling go? How do we get these bins? May we take a tour of the site? When we have asked these questions, we will be able to get a better picture of how Farmington sits as a city in the Recycling world and how we will be better able to help our community. Are you starting the program anywhere else in the U.S. Those are just some of our questions.
Zero waste, all Recycle

Bibliography

http://www.zerowasteamerica.org/Statistics.htm Retrieved 11/18/09
WM Waste Management Supports Reuse, Recycling & Conservation


Waste management personal Johnny
Retrieved 12/3/09

Team Members:

  Jesse Duarte
  jacob hensley

Sponsoring Teacher: Shirley Maurer

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