WASTE AUDITS, GENERAL WASTEEvery school pays to have waste collected and taken to a landfill. If students and teachers can reduce the amount of waste collected, then this bill can be reduced. Finding out how much waste your school is producing is very important. Once you know this information, there are a large number of possible activities that students and teachers in your school can do to reduce waste.
How much waste does your school produce each day? In a week? All year?
Answer the questions below. The custodian will be able to provide you with some of the answers. Your group will need a calculator to figure out other answers. Use the following information to help you answer the above question.
| How many garbage containers are in your school? | . | ||||||||||||||||||
| How many bags of garbage are collected every day? | . | ||||||||||||||||||
| How many containers of garbage are collected each week? | . | ||||||||||||||||||
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Calculate the volume of the containers by using the following formula:
length _____ x width _____ x height _____ = _____ m3 |
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Find out when the garbage is collected. For one month, record
how full the containers are on pickup day.
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| How many containers were collected during the month that your group was checking? | . | ||||||||||||||||||
| How many containers would be collected in one school year? (Multiply the number for one month by 10.) | . | ||||||||||||||||||
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What is the volume of garbage that your school will produce in one year? (Multiply the number of containers by the volume of one container.)
containers _____ x volume _____ m3 = _____ metres of garbage/year |
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How many times would this fill your school gymnasium? (Divide the volume of garbage your school produces in one year by the volume of an average school gym, about _____ metres cubed.)
volume of garbage produced _____/volume of gym _____ = _____ gyms of garbage |
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