JAMES DICKEY
steelfield land fill class trip
journal entry 2-27-14
Recently my class and i went to the Steelfield landfill for a field trip. We had a lot of fun and learned a lot of things like how we can recycle more.
I thought the landfill was very cool, yet at the same time horrible for the environment . The landfill was very smelly, but after a while the smell faded away. There was a mountain of trash! The mountain of trash was 190 feet above sea level! We were only 50 feet above sea level. So there was a 140 feet tall mountain of trash! It was crazy how much trash the land fill had. That is why recycling is so important. We do not want that much trash polluting our planet.
Questions and Answers for steelfield landfill:
1. How did the trash island form?
Answer:
2. Do you have any ideas on how we can start to eliminate land fills?
Answer:
3. When was the steel field land fill created?
Answer: 1986.
4. How tall is the trash mountain?
Answer: 140 feet above sea level.
bay county waste to energy facility
JOURNAL ENTRY #2: 3-6-14
My class and I just went on a field trip to the waste to energy facility. At first i thought it was just a place that was smelly and horrible for the environment but it wasn't it was actually pretty cool.
The waste to energy facility was very cool and they do all they can to help the environment. but it was really stinky. i learned a lot of things that really interested me. It was really really fun yet really really stinky and hot! the incinerator burned a lot of things yet still it had a lot of things left over that went to the landfill. what ever was left over was taken to the landfill. I think that we should recycle more then we burn things.
questions and answers for waste to energy facility
1. Why do you not take the metal out of the trash before you burn the trash?
Answer: It is harder.
2. How much energy you create?
Answer: we create about 13 mega watts per hour.
3. do you have any ideas on eliminating incinerators?
Answer:
4. how hot do you keep the incinerator?
Answer: 1500 decrease Fahrenheit
Answer: It is harder.
2. How much energy you create?
Answer: we create about 13 mega watts per hour.
3. do you have any ideas on eliminating incinerators?
Answer:
4. how hot do you keep the incinerator?
Answer: 1500 decrease Fahrenheit
journal entry 5-13-14
cigarette butts and how they are toxic!
Recently my class and I went on a field trip to the science and discovery center and learned lots about cigarettes.
At the filed trip to the Science and Discovery Center we learned about cigarette butts. People just throw them out! These cigarette butts are highly toxic, and are killing the environment. Keep in mind ,people are just throwing them out! When we were at the Science and Discovery Center we saw that kids are drawing about stopping the use of tobacco, so that made us think "why don't we draw pictures to help our expedition about waste and how we can prevent it."