Trash clean up

  After week one, we had picked up a ton of trash, and learned about how to live sustainably. This week, we needed to learn more about where our trash was going, and why it was important. This also leads us to learning more about why we should live sustainably, and that there are many ways to incorporate it into our everyday lives. We gathered a ton of information this week through interviews, and our own research. We made flyers on composting, sustainability, and recycling. We cleaned up at Highland Lake, and Bradely Lake. Personally, the interviews were what made me learn the most throughout our project. We interviewed three different people, Muffy White, Ron, and Mark Kozak, all about separate topics.  Our first interview was with my aunt, Muffy. She is a professional organizer and styler, and she lives a very sustainable lifestyle. One of our questions for her was based on how she deals with waste and clutter from people's houses. She talked to us about how she takes trash to t

 Today we wanted to take a little extra time to work on our poster board for express fest. We drove to staples and got a big poster board, and we bought markers, that were all in recyclable packaging. We worked on various parts of our poster for a few hours. This included summarizing the interviews that we conducted, printing our trash can maps, and using our art skills. We were able to put up the maps of where we have been and where trash cans could be placed. We also created a wall with our flyers and where we talked about them and how we got there. We also spent time putting all of our instagram reels and stories that we have been updating daily, into one big video so people can watch it and understand our message(@trashnomopew). Daily hours: 3 Total hours: 57

 Today, we interviewed my step dad, Mark Kozak, and talked to him about one of his old jobs. He worked for a recycling company out of Telluride, Colorado called Sunshine Recycling. His job for them was to create a buisness model for them to most effectively recycle. In his work, he realized he had to do the math to calculate how much energy it took to ship the recycling to the factory, versus how much energy it took to actually recycle the bottle. Because Telluride is so remote, he found that the energy to even ship the recycling was more than the actual recycling process. This brought up a really good point for us, as we have been promoting recycling as much as we could for the last few weeks. We asked him, so why should we recycle if its just more energy and more fuels? He talked about many benefits of recycling. Not only does our earth look cleaner when we get rid of waste, but we also protect animals, wildlife, and ourselfs. He went into some detail about the microplastics and how

 Today we did two things. First, we headed up to the Proctor area and went over to Mindy's house which overlooked Bradley Lake. We did not expect to find much success here, because it is a close community and little neighborhood. We first walked around the road and down to the edge of the water looking for trash. Then, we drove around Bradley Lake stopping at different points and getting out to find trash in the woods surrounding. Ever since we talked to Ron, we have been mindful of what direction the wind is going and generally looking in that direction because trash can be blown and caught onto trees or into water. We didn't think our trash clean up would be this unsuccessful today, so we decided to pack up and head over to elbow to see if we could find any trash, but we struck out again. After this, we decided to head down to Concord, on the main street, near Bonified, and Catherines mom's store, and hang our flyers. Our flyers are a basic infographic of recycling, and i

 This morning we woke up early and got ready for our hike. We went to hike mount kersarge. We brought our grip and grabbers and a trash bag so we could clean up the trail. To our suprise, there was barely any trash. There was one trash can at the bottom of the trail. When we got to the top, we hiked to the top of the fire tower. Up here, we met a friend named Ron and he talked to us for over an hour about the mountian and his experiences with the earth and outdoors. After talking about his background, we asked Ron about global warming, and he explained that due to global warming there has been a big increase in forest fires around New Hampshire. This will add a lot to the awareness we will spread about living a sustainable life to better our earth. We also talked to him about the cleanliness of the mountian. He explained to us that it’s not as much littering, as it is people carelessly putting down a water bottle for example and it blowing down. He told us that the wind is why we norma

 Today we woke up ready to grind. In order to be focused all day, we decided to start our morning with a sustainable breakfast. We made eggs and composted the egg shells and egg cartons from Catherine’s neighbor. After this we watched the Netflix documentary “Our Earth.” This documentary talked about the ways we can save the ocean before it’s too late. It talked about things such as greenhouse gas admissions made from man made products. It emphasized the importance that living a sustainable life will reflect on the world. Then, We spent a lot of time on our flyers. We made 3 flyers, about composting, sustainability, and recycling, that we will hang up later in the week around the community. Our interview with my aunt was very helpful to put together the composting flyer. We wanted to make these to teach the community simple things they can do to save the earth. We got a lot done today and it was helpful to be able to put all the things we have learned onto paper. Daily hours: 6 Total h