This Month In Science#10

This month in science The Human Impact Institute came to our class and introduced us to their program. They told us to choose between Waste, Water, Transportation, and Energy . My group Yasmin, Sofia, Mayra and I chose Waste. We chose this because here in New York you see a lot of waste everywhere we go so we thought that waste is a very huge impact in our lives that if we don't do something quick about it, waste can easily take over our lives.

 We went around the Lower East Side to take a survey. When Yasmin and I finished the survey we took the data and put it into Google Docs that sorted out all the information for us. We also had to take a survey on how much trash we throw out and how much of it do we recycle. We also tested water from Brooklyn, our school (New Design High School) and the fish tank using a tablet that detects if the water had chlorine,  bacteria, and its hardness. After that we planned out a slogan for our T-shirts that we are going to make that  has to be related to the waste problem. Our team slogan is "One Starts, Millions Continue". When we made  all the changes that needed to be made to our slogan we came up with a picture that explained what our slogan was about. Our picture was a little boy throwing trash on a pile of trash instead of the trash can that was right next to it. We did some refining to it just to make it better.

In this month I learned a lot about the Lower East Side that I didn't know. Im not very familiar with the area but when I went around doing the survey other than getting to know the area more I also learned that around this area there isn't a lot of people who recycle. There is a lot of trash being used in the Lower East Side because there is a lot of companies around here. Also even though there is a lot of businesses here most people travel by train, which is a good thing because in conserves gas and there will be less pollution. Something that I really got scared was when i realized that this school water has bacteria and the fish tank water seems to be cleaner.  Also I learned how to take a main idea and turn it into a catchy slogan (which was very easy). This month was a very fun and educational month and i can't wait to see my team's design on a T-shirt

Human Impact Ad Campaign

Well this picture that you see here above is my creation of what the slogan "One Starts. Millions Continue..." What I meant to prove is that there is a mother duck and her ducklings, its been always told that the ducklings always follow the mothers footsteps so that's what this picture shows. The mother is throwing garbage in the water and so are the ducklings. This is just like us humans that once we see and piece of garbage  on the floor instead of picking it up we actually continue to put more trash. I chose this idea because is a myth that the ducklings are always following the mother in everything she does, and i thought that symbolizes us when we follow the person that put the first piece of trash there.

Wasted: New York City's Giant Garbage Problem

This article is basically about the bad and the good stuff that happens to the waste us New Yorkers create. My group and I were reading it and we learned that the waste in the old days was either burnt in the incinerators, throw in the ocean or just picked up to be sent to a poor neighborhood. The article was also saying that Steven Cohen had an idea of how to convert the garbage into energy but certain people did not agree with that. Even thought they did not like his idea they came up with something new that involve high pollution truck to carry out the garbage into a landfill, which was still bad because the trucks cause pollution.

While reading this article I just thought that in wasnt fair that in some cases the trash that was collected was sent to the poor neighborhoods. Also i found it interesting that before there used to be incinerators that burned the waste in the buildings. I felt that the article was very informative because of that i leanred what the people in the past did with the waste before the new system we have now.