Biology Lab: Recycling Success

Goal: Determine a way to measure "recycling success"

This is a "doityourself" lab -- you'll need to come up with what data you'll collect and how you will measure "success" in recycling.

Materials

• This will depend on what measurement you use (volume, weight). You may need scales, a way to calculate volumes.
• Consider limiting what waste materials you will include in your assessment. It may not be possible to measure certain kinds of waste safely (such as sewage), but you might be able to count normal methods of disposal as recycling if your community returns waste safely to the natural world. For example, you may have a program that turns yard waste into compost.

Procedure:

1. Determine your procedure and the length of time over which yo will conduct your survey and determine results.

Report: Be sure that you include all your procedures and data. Your conclusion should estimate how much you could increase recycling levels in your home environment (if you are perfectly "Green" already, this amount may be zero!).

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