LOSTON ZABORSKI
Landfill Field Trip Feb 27,2014
I learned many great things for our expedition on the field trip to the landfill. One example is did you know that the trash mounds in Florida landfill can be 190 ft tall! That's pretty tall for a trash mound. I also learned that they are going to be filled up in 20 years and they are mining out an old landfill so they'll have more space. Also they have special ponds that hold fresh water and every year people dump fish like cod in and people can fish there. Our class also learned about a poisonous liquid called leachate and it has to be treated like sewage to be made safe. Also i learned about a piousness gas called methane and it damages our atmosphere. If you go to the landfill i hope you learn a lot!
Questions and Answers for Landfill
1. Q-How tall can some of the trash mounds be?
A-Up to 190ft tall.
2. Q-how many years till the landfill we bill filled up?
A-about 20 years.
3. Q-what is leachate?
A-it is a very poisonous gas that has to be treated like sewage to be kept safe.
4. Q-what is methane?
A-a poisonous gas that damages the atmosphere.
Bay County Waste To Energy Facility
A-Up to 190ft tall.
2. Q-how many years till the landfill we bill filled up?
A-about 20 years.
3. Q-what is leachate?
A-it is a very poisonous gas that has to be treated like sewage to be kept safe.
4. Q-what is methane?
A-a poisonous gas that damages the atmosphere.
Bay County Waste To Energy Facility
Journal entry #2 : March 6, 2014
Today our class went to the incinerator! Some of us learned a lot and some of us learned only a little. So I'm going to share what I learned with you. We learned all I'm telling you from Mr. Gerome Barthelemy. The place we went to was the waste to energy power facility.
And this is what I learned. First I learned they have this air shooter that shoots all the metals of a conveyor belt. So the don't get destroyed by the incinerator. Then the people who work at the incinerator will give all the metals to people who work with metals. So the metal will be recycled and turned into new metal.
I also learned the use the heat from the trash to boil water so the can power a machine called a turbine. I also learned that the machine called the incinerator can burn trash up to 1,500 Fahrenheit. That's really hot! Also you know all that trash that goes to the dump. We'll it goes to the incinerator. So lets say you have 100 dump trucks we'll if the went to the incinerator that 100 would be turned into only 10. So the incinerator burns most of our trash.
Also there is a special room were you can watch the trash burn and there are little alarms that go of if there is something wrong. And that's all I learned I hoped you enjoyed me telling you what I learned. Oh! and by the way if you ever go there it smells so beware. Thank you for reading.
And this is what I learned. First I learned they have this air shooter that shoots all the metals of a conveyor belt. So the don't get destroyed by the incinerator. Then the people who work at the incinerator will give all the metals to people who work with metals. So the metal will be recycled and turned into new metal.
I also learned the use the heat from the trash to boil water so the can power a machine called a turbine. I also learned that the machine called the incinerator can burn trash up to 1,500 Fahrenheit. That's really hot! Also you know all that trash that goes to the dump. We'll it goes to the incinerator. So lets say you have 100 dump trucks we'll if the went to the incinerator that 100 would be turned into only 10. So the incinerator burns most of our trash.
Also there is a special room were you can watch the trash burn and there are little alarms that go of if there is something wrong. And that's all I learned I hoped you enjoyed me telling you what I learned. Oh! and by the way if you ever go there it smells so beware. Thank you for reading.
Here's a poem about
Trash
Rubbish
Atmosphere polluting
Stinky
Huge mountains of junk
Trash
Rubbish
Atmosphere polluting
Stinky
Huge mountains of junk
The landfill should be eliminated it is a bad place for trash
750 MILLION people die because of water pollution! That is because people litter in the water, and it gets chemicals and bad liquids in the water so a lot of people die due to that. Also lots of sea critters die due to water pollution. If those critters die then the food chain will collapse, so they also depend on the good water to. So we need to stop polluting water! PLEASE!!!!