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Lab 13: Home Waste Inventory Objective: This exercise will help familiarize you with the data collection and evaluation of data you collect over the period of several days. Instructions: There are two parts to this lab, both of which include some data analysis. Answers to written questions should be presented as complete sentences and points will be deducted for spelling and grammar mistakes. Part 1 – Home Waste Analysis Use the table provided on the following page to analyze your personal waste stream over the period of three days. You will be analyzing both the number of items disposed of in each category, as well as estimating the weight and volume of waste you generate. Based upon the data you collect, answer the following questions. 1. How much of this waste could have been avoided by reducing reliance on disposable materials? Consider items that are disposable for which reusable alterna- tives exist. When looking at my household waste summary, one way that we reduce our reliance on disposable materials is by buying our milk and creamer products from the Holiday market. These milk containers are glass so while they do make up a lot of weight and recyclable class, we saved them and returned them directly to the store for recycling to get a credit on our grocery bill. This eliminates the need for waste management to pick up more weight in glass recyclables. We also usually have a lot of paper and paper board waste, usually these are big boxes from Costco purchased items or the large boxes that they have you take all your things home in. I do have reusable large, insulated grocery bags from Costco that would be a better option to use rather than using Costco’s large leftover boxes. However, I have a very imaginative daughter who loves making crafts out of every single large box that comes home from Costco, so we do utilize them to their maximum ability and capacity before tossing them. 2. How much of this waste could have been avoided by reusing some of these materials? I think some ways can be avoided by reusing the cardboard boxes or bringing my own reusable bags. I have a lot of food waste that added up quite a bit since I had to clean out my refrigerator, and I think a lot of that waste could’ve been reduced by composting it into my green can however I don’t think that Redding waste management allows us to do that yet. 3. Do you compost food and yard waste? How much difference would removing these items from your waste stream make? I currently do not compost my food waste because the city doesn’t allow us to put that in our green bins yet, but I am open to it in the future whenever we can do that. My daughter explained to me how her class did an assignment with worms and composting, and I think that might be a reasonable option that I could con- sider reducing how much food waste I have. I also do not compost my yard waste because I have a Gardener who throws everything away in the green bin. Currently I don’t think that I have an ideal location on my property to compost yard waste, so I don’t believe that composting yard waste would be beneficial in my neighborhood. The biggest difference that could happen from removing food waste from my waste stream is likely because we are fortunate to have many different food options in my home, and that can be taken advantage of when there are too many choices like single serving snacks for my children.
3-DAY WASTE GENERATION SUMMARY Waste Cate- gory Day 1 Weight Estimate (lbs) Day 1 Vol. Es- timate (gal.) Day 2 Weight Estimate (lbs) Day 2 Vol. Es- timate (gal.) Day 3 Weight Estimate (lbs) Day 3 Vol. Es- timate (gal.) 3-day Total Weight (lbs) 3-day Total Volume (gal.) Paper and Pa- per Board 10 20 30 30 10 5 50 55 Yard Waste 0 0 175 15 0 0 175 15 Food Waste 10 30 25 30 15 30 50 90 Plastic 5 15 0 0 10 15 15 30 Metals 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rubber, latex, and textiles 0 0 0 0 1-2 1 1-2 1 Glass 25 3 0 0 0 0 25 3 Wood 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Other 5 10 10 15 10 10 25 35
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