english assingment

My Trash Footprint Assignment:

Project Space: What is your “Trash Footprint”? For one week, as much as possible, keep track of what you throw away. Try not to change what you normally do – just observe and report.

Ideally, this assignment is done by lugging all your trash around with you, and weighing it at the end of the week.

Keep track of the 3 main streams of garbage:

1) Food scraps (compostable garbage)-- Did you throw away a carton of cottage cheese or yogurt you never got around to eating? Make note of that. ½ of a sandwich?  A bag of lettuce? Did you let a tomato go bad?  Count it.

2) Recyclables (bottles, cans, paper, etc) Do you actually put these items in the recycling receptacles? Or do you throw them in the trash? Keep track.

3) Trash - All the other items that don’t fit in the other two categories. 

Type up your list and explain what you discovered about your own trash habits as a result of this exercise. What conclusions can you draw? This will probably be about  1-2 pages of writing. 250 words summary.