Recycling Experiment

We took these results over a two day period with several different bottles in two different locations around HSPVA and approximately 165 students and faculty passed by the empty bottles. Both locations made it convenient to recycle with bins located less than 3 feet from the recyclables.
Out of these 165 peoples only 16 recycled the bottles.
That is only 10 percent which is actually the national average
People in the U.S. throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles an hour.
That means only 250,000 those bottles are recycled
These un-recycled bottles end up in landfills and ocean water which can cause damage to animals and us.
Between 7 and 8 percent of the worlds CO2 gasses are produced by fossil fuels used to manufacture plastic bottles. This may not seem like much, but it is worth millions of tons of fuel.
Recycling takes up less energy. To manufacture one new plastic bottle, it takes enough energy to power a 60 watt light bulb for six hours. At this rate you could power your whole house from the 2.5 million bottles thrown away each hour in the United States.
There are also many other things you can recycle like paper and tin cans which we have special bins for located all around the school.
Our mission for the students and faculty of HSPVA is to make recycling a sixth sense so we can make for a greener Houston, Texas which has the most CO2 gases released in the whole United States.
It may not stop global warming but it CAN and WILL make a difference.
It starts with YOU and ends with a better and more GREEN environment. Biggest Point

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Education

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• environment
• recycling
• experiment
• plastic
• bottle
• hspva
• pva
• low-carbon

[Underfaith]

What do you expect the vast majority of people only care about themselves or what benefits them at the present time. Also when you recycle plastics they do not all actually get recycled it's based on the type of resin the plastic is made from and if the cost of recycling it is worth the energy and money used to do so. A lot of recycled plastics don't get recycled. So if you really want to make a difference try and get people to stop drinking from plastic water bottles they use once.

[dancinfool25]

@Underfaith haha Obviously you are looking for a fight. I didn't ask anyone's advice on how to improve my experiment. It wasn't without flaws obviously. I'm only a high school student. Give it a rest and go lecture somebody else.

[Underfaith]

@dancinfool25 Looking for a fight? for what pointing out the obvious and possibly pointing your cause in the right direction? I think what you mean to say is thank you. It does not matter if you didnt ask for someone's advice or not putting videos on youtube will generate critisisms. Only a highschool student? that's a poor reason for ignorance, you might want to stop putting yourself down and adopt a yes I can additude instead of making up reasons of why you can't or why you don't understand.

[dancinfool25]

@Underfaith I put it on youtube to show my class at school. haha Thank You I guess

[Underfaith]

@dancinfool25 Apologies, I really did not mean any disrespect and you did do a good job.

[lekotar]

Wow she was so beautiful..

[centeromega]

oh hell yes, fish year