Hakeem Chothia
Mr. Smiley
5/23/2012
Reduce, Reuse, and Put it in the Box
My Dorm project assigned to me by Mr. Smiley has gone pretty
well. I had successful hall meetings and got good feedback from students about
what they think of recycling and how to make it fun and more interesting so
that people engage in it more. Due to my research and investigation on dorm, I
found the main hall that has been throwing trash into the cans bin. We are now
taking a further step into this project by ordering bin covers for the cans bin
so that only cans will be able to go in them. From the hall meetings I held I
knew that most halls were not doing a bad job when it came to recycling. The
only hall struggling to recycle was 3rd Scott and not because they
were not educated but because of their laziness. After weeks of hall meetings
and new signs on hall, my Local Contemporary Environmental Issue class started
to see some change in the amount of trash in the cans bin. They started to
generate more cans and less trash every time they checked. I left this project
alone for a little while to see if its change was constant.
I was given a new dorm project to undertake which counted as
my exam. This project required me to put up 5 boxes on every hall; a box for laundry
supplies, one for clothes, another for coat hangers, one for school supplies, and one for any reusable
items. This project was to get all the unneeded and unwanted reusable items
from students on every hall for two main reasons; to reduce the amount of waste
that goes to the landfill and to donate some of the reusable materials to the
less fortunate people. This project is done every end of year at Christchurch
School. As students start to pack up their stuff to take home, they are bound
to find things that they do not need but can be reused again and instead of
throwing it away. We collect them to avoid waste and so that we can be able to
give to our community. This project also required me to make signs and hold
hall meetings. In my hall meetings I had to explain why we were doing this and
why it was important; I explained that most of the things that are taken to the
landfill are reusable items that are just thrown away because they were not
needed or wanted anymore even though there are people out there that need the
things we throw away. It is safe to say that this project also went
successfully.
Both of my Projects were sustainable and they related to the
three E’s which are the economy, equity and the environment.
The Big 3 E’s
The Economy
Equity
The environment
The boxes on
hall
These two projects are sustainable projects because they both help save the
environment we live in. Recycling and Reusing items not only save our
environment but also save lives.
