Materials, trash, and recycling project:
how does the chemical composition and structor of a substance determine its properties in regards to use capacity for re use and capacity for recycling?
The chemical composition of high and low polyethylene makes the plastic a high used product globally. High density polyethylene is typically used for milk containers juice containers detergent bottles and more heavy plastics like those. Most polyethylene can not be heated and turned into a different product or “up-cycled” in that way. You can though “up-cycle this type of plastic in your personal home. By taking these plastics and making them into things like holders for other things or just trying to re use them in your own home you can really help keep these types of plastic out of the recycling cycle and help clean the environment.
how do the choices we make as consumers impact our local community and environment and the global community and environment?
Taking the plastic crisis seriously in your personal lives although may not seem like it makes a change it actually impacts it greatly. If as consumers we stop buying large quantities of things that are packaged in large amounts of plastic then the business and corporations of these things will be forced to switch there packaging the a non plastic method. If you do have to buy plastics it is best to try and re use them in your own home and if you can't do that you have to make sure you know the correct way to recycle and what exactly can be recycled. By doing all of this we will help our own communities and the global planet at the same time.
what els did you learn throughout this project?
One of the biggest takeaways I had throughout this project was going on a field trip to all of the different recycling centers. I had done all of that before but i think i was in elementary school, so I obviously didn't pick up that much information, but being able to go now especially when global warming and recycling is such a huge topic in the world right now i found it super interesting to go see it first hand. The coolest thing I learned on these field trips is the process that recyclables actually goes though. I have always recycled but never known the process so getting to see it and her the guys talk about the effort they put into their everyday job with sorting the different plastics and materials really opened my eyes to the general idea of throwing things away and recycling things.
what grade do you believed you earned on this project?
For this entire project I think I deserve a B. as much as i would like to say an A don't believe that our final product came out exactly how we wanted to and i think we lacked a little in the actual chemistry facts about up-cycling. I think we do deserve a B though because me and my partner were engaged with the project and spend a lot of time and effort to create the final product that we made. We also spend a lot of time researching and getting the facts, just not a lot of it was the actual chemistry witch i think if we would have dug a little bit deeper we could have found.
how does the chemical composition and structor of a substance determine its properties in regards to use capacity for re use and capacity for recycling?
The chemical composition of high and low polyethylene makes the plastic a high used product globally. High density polyethylene is typically used for milk containers juice containers detergent bottles and more heavy plastics like those. Most polyethylene can not be heated and turned into a different product or “up-cycled” in that way. You can though “up-cycle this type of plastic in your personal home. By taking these plastics and making them into things like holders for other things or just trying to re use them in your own home you can really help keep these types of plastic out of the recycling cycle and help clean the environment.
how do the choices we make as consumers impact our local community and environment and the global community and environment?
Taking the plastic crisis seriously in your personal lives although may not seem like it makes a change it actually impacts it greatly. If as consumers we stop buying large quantities of things that are packaged in large amounts of plastic then the business and corporations of these things will be forced to switch there packaging the a non plastic method. If you do have to buy plastics it is best to try and re use them in your own home and if you can't do that you have to make sure you know the correct way to recycle and what exactly can be recycled. By doing all of this we will help our own communities and the global planet at the same time.
what els did you learn throughout this project?
One of the biggest takeaways I had throughout this project was going on a field trip to all of the different recycling centers. I had done all of that before but i think i was in elementary school, so I obviously didn't pick up that much information, but being able to go now especially when global warming and recycling is such a huge topic in the world right now i found it super interesting to go see it first hand. The coolest thing I learned on these field trips is the process that recyclables actually goes though. I have always recycled but never known the process so getting to see it and her the guys talk about the effort they put into their everyday job with sorting the different plastics and materials really opened my eyes to the general idea of throwing things away and recycling things.
what grade do you believed you earned on this project?
For this entire project I think I deserve a B. as much as i would like to say an A don't believe that our final product came out exactly how we wanted to and i think we lacked a little in the actual chemistry facts about up-cycling. I think we do deserve a B though because me and my partner were engaged with the project and spend a lot of time and effort to create the final product that we made. We also spend a lot of time researching and getting the facts, just not a lot of it was the actual chemistry witch i think if we would have dug a little bit deeper we could have found.