2-week progress report
the topic
After doing further research for my topic, I learned that Sweden is currently buying the unwanted garbage from other countries to help them provide energy through their recycling revolution. Sweden's recycling revolution first involves the organization of garbage provided by the citizens of Sweden. The trash is then separated into different categories from newspapers, plastics, glass, metals, electric appliances, light bulbs, and batteries. The trash is then sent to a waste-to-energy plant where the trash is burned and turned into usable energy. The energy is able to provide heating to more than 800,000 households. Moreover, Sweden is now buying trash from other countries, 2.7 million tons of trash to be exact. Sweden now recycles more than 99% of their garbage, and other companies and countries are joining the effort. The first step towards Sweden's success is recycling.
self-learn
Over the course of learning about my topic, I noticed that I discovered quite a few things about myself. One thing I have learned about myself through this experience is that I strongly support recycling and want to encourage other people to participate and join the effort. Recycling has endless positive effects on the environment and our world, and the best part is that recycling is extremely easy. It takes little to no effort and just a portion of a portion of someone's time to help recycle. However, I dislike how inaccessible recycling is for the American population. Many areas in my community have trash cans, but not recycling bins along with the trash cans. If we want to make an effort to recycle, we should make it easily accessible for the community.
setbacks
One setback that I experienced is that it's not as easy as it seems to help put out more trash cans. My initial idea was that I would just set up trash cans and recycling bins in any area that seemed to be lacking in an accessible waste bin. However, the city council would probably not be thrilled with a random high school student dropping trash cans and recycling bins all over the place. The problem comes in when the trash cans fill up and need to be emptied out. The people that normally clear out trash cans wouldn't be happy about collecting more trash and going to more places. I thought maybe I could clear out the trash myself, but I wouldn't know how to carry all the trash or where to dispose of it. I knew I needed to get an ok from the city council
next steps
The next step in my project is to talk to the city council and get their approval to help set up more trash cans and recycling bins in areas that don't have a sufficient supply. I would also need to get the alert the companies that handle disposing the wastes from the trash cans and recycling bins and to get their approval and support to help set up more trash cans and recycling bins in the area. I also want to help the recycling effect by education the American population. Two main reasons people don't recycle as much as they could is because recycling is not available or because people don't know whether something is able to be recycled or not.
application
Two ways I'm applying what I learned to my school and community is setting up more trash cans and to educate people on how to properly recycle. Putting out more trash cans in my school, my community, and around the area will definitely leave an impact since it will allow people to recycle more easily. Another way I plan to use my project to apply an impact to my community is to educate as many people as I can about recycling. Many people don't recycle because they don't know if what they are throwing away is okay to be recycled or not. I want to teach people what are proper items to be recycled; for example, what is considered plastics, papers, metals, cans, compost, etc. I also want to teach people if recycling is appropriate in different conditions such as a plastic bowl with food left over food in it. I hope that supplying my neighborhood with more trash cans and recycling bins and education our people can increase recycling and reduce the amount of trash that makes its way to landfills.
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