Davis Street Transfer Center

The purpose of the Davis Street Transfer Center is to bring all recyclables there and and crush them into squares to be further made into new plastic, paper, or aluminum materials. The Davis Street Transfer Center is a great help to the community because it's a local place just to recycle and get rid of litter that could be in the streets and places they don't belong. The Center is overwhelmed with materials that will be made into something new.

This picture is of some workers at the landfill in the transfer center.
This picture is of the the recyclables after they have been crushed and ready to be reused.
This picture is an up close of the cubes of recyclables.

Tennyson High School Farm/Compost Pile

The Tennyson High compost pile our class created on 4-11-08 was very exciting and fun. This was something I had never done before. What we did as a class was we took a trip down to one of our fields that we use for farming and used: twigs,leaves,grass clippings, succulent plant matter, old compost, and water to make a 4ft. wide 4ft. long 4ft. high pile of compost. The class helped to make the pile and did different chores to help meet the measurements which was the tricky part. However, by working together we were able to do just that. my role and responsibilities for making the compost pile was spraying water from the hose on the compost pile. A compost pile is used to help break things like old plant matter and uneaten food into soil or fertilizer. This helps benefit because this is fertilizer and soil that is organic. To make a compost pile you lay down all of the ingredients I named but add water in between all of them. It takes at least 2 weeks to completely turn into soil or fertilizer.

Waste Audit

This picture is of some trash that some students acquired and brought out to examine. The first thing that you notice when looking at this picture is that there are a lot of different recyclables all mixed together in one bag. There are paper, plastics, and cans that could have been taken out sorted and recycled into new materials.


This picture is showing students weigh garbage and show how many pounds of garbage are consumed in a number of hours. Just imagine how much garbage is consumed in one day? All this garbage we're making is actually recyclables we could make into new materials.

What students did in this picture was pour a bag of garbage on a plastic tarp to examine the different pieces of trash.

This picture shows how students sorted the recyclables from the garbage. You can see there are just paper and plastic in this photo. Things that you would usually see in a bag of trash is situated together to be further sorted and recycled.

Classrooms can help reduce consumption and disposal of materials by having a certain box or garbage can just meant for recyclables. For instance, if every class in the school just had a big cardboard box next to the trash I bet there would be more recycling going on than there is now. The 4R's could be applied to the materials found in the trash mostly by recycling, reusing, and rotting. For example, the plastics, paper, etc. can be recycled; plastic bottles could be reused; and the food that we don't eat or throw away can be rotted down into a compost pile to help put nutrients back into the soil and make fertilizer.

The specific materials the class should focus on is paper and plastic because that's mostly what classrooms deal with. When students no longer need certain paper that has already been graded or written on we could recycle it, instead of throwing it away. Also the plastic that usually comes off of teachers new materials or plastic bottles from people drinking water or juice can be recycled and made into new bottles.