Tag Archives: Spring 2016

Our Team presented our project in class on April 28, 2016. I talked about the trash issues as well as the recycling processes around the world. Youlee talked about the issues around Berks county as well as potential solutions to deal with the increasing amount of trashes. Zhenghao Ji talked about the issues on campus and Jasmine talked about our service hour projects as I have described in earlier posts. Doing this project first seems to be very boring and I am only doing this project for the class. However, after we have done so many interesting and inspiring things for this project, I gradually fell in love with the term “Environment Friendly”.  We have researched many materials that indicating the situation around the world is getting worse and if we do not take actions, the Earth would eventually not be able to accommodate all of us. I apologize for not sharing many interesting activities at first because we focused on researching the issues initially. I have learned a lot during this project and that has been a real education, I sincerely hope you have also learnt something useful and I urge you to be “environment friendly”.

In the spirit of not wasting anything, we came up with a brilliant idea to use the plastic bottles’ bottoms to create plastic curtains for the greenhouse. We colored the plastic using markers and then used fish lines to connect each of them.

It is so surprising that we can make half a greenhouse’s wall out of a weeks bottle consumption on Berks campus. Approximately, there are over 500 plastic bottles being tossed away in the library every week and based on the calculation, finishing this greenhouse, 3,000 plastic bottles are enough. We cut the bottom of the bottle and put the bottles on the bamboo sticks. Then we nail the bamboo into the wooden frame. This project really should ring the bell for us that there are so many bottle consumptions every weeks, that could cost a lot of money to even recycle. Don’t be afraid to drink tap water.

Finally it’s presentation day.

Our trash display board consists of three individual sections and they are facts, observations and issues. Each of our group member researched 2 buildings on our campus and came up with many interesting facts. We dig into trashcans in each building to figure out the recycling rates, which by the way is not ideal at all. There are so many misplaced trashes in each trashcan, especially for plastic bottles and paper wastes. In addition, we counted how many trashcans and recycling bins are there in each building and we finally came with with 5 possible solutions to help the recycling process on campus.