Recycling Awareness

We did this project in about two weeks time and I can say that I learned a lot from it. I didn't much care about the environment like many teens I know. I learned that if we recycled then the world would be a much cleaner place. I also learned that the items that I throw away could also be recycled. I also saw the extent of littering that we have seen at school and I feel that the school wouldn't look half bad as long as we don't litter. I didn't even know what compost was before we started and now I know that is an organic substitute for fertilizer and that it has no pesticides.
I didn't care about recycling and thought only to sell bottles for money like my family does sometimes. I now recycle whenever I can and it has changed my perspective of how I see the world . I could recycle boxes instead of throwing it away and I can also recycle the food scraps so that it can be made into compost. Around my house my parent always recycled and we didn't notice it because we did small things like by from thrift stores and sell bottles. This project really helped me get into recycling and through public awareness I believe that the public can get into the recycling habit too.
We at T-high have gotten together with our Leadership class and are going to get recycling bins for all our classrooms. The main thing that we are seeking top do is get our students aware of the problems with not recycling. The students are in a way responsible for the trash and we are trying to tell them to be cleaner. The program we are going to set up will make this school much cleaner and help the world.


For more information on the ways you can help contact them at:

The Davis Street Transfer Center is a waste treatment facility that serves 20 Bay Area cities. The facilities goal is to divert 75% of municipal trash away from landfills and into recyclable materials.

Davis Street Transfer Center

Recycle plastics and bottles
Recycle wood into garden mulch which fertilizes the ground
Process yard trimmings for compost
Recycle e-waste: old computers, electronic equipment and cell phones

http://www.dsgardencenter.com/index.asp


Information about landfills

http://science.howstuffworks.com/landfill.htm

Davis Street Transfer Center

This facility is quite remarkable if you think about it. It recycles the materials it gets by separating the trash that it takes in. The facility is there to help the reduction of the landfills. The center separates and composts 75% of the materials that they get.We learned that a lot of people throw away a lot of things that can be recycled and that as long as they don't see it they don't care. The problem is that it is easier not to recycle but to have someone else do it for us.
The transfer station takes the trash and finds things that can be recycled or made into compost and they recycle them such as plastic and electronics.the thing that most people don't know is that the trash is thrown into landfills and there they sit . The landfills are holes in the ground that you trash into and in the end product it is a mound in which they put fake grass and make it look like a mountain.The landfills have a protective plastic surrounding so that the liquid can't escape. The landfill in our Alameda County is Located in Livermore and it is called the Altamont.

Composting at THS Farm

In the afternoon after lunch a class went to our farm and made a compost pile to help let the plants grow. The students made it and also learned that it is made from leaves and twigs, grass clippings, succulent plant matter, old compost and water. A compost pile is a fertilizer that uses no pesticides to make an all organic farm. The regular fertilizer is sometimes dangerous to the foods we eat so we at the farm use a chemical-free fertilizer to make the food as healthy as possible. This ensures that the food is good to eat and is very healthy for us too.
How to make a compost pile: