Good morning! This morning you will be learning about trash.
Consider --
You have just finished your meal at a fast food restaurant and you throw your uneaten food, food wrappers, drink cup, utensils and napkins into the trash can. You don't think about that waste again. On trash pickup day in your neighborhood, you push your can out to the curb, and workers dump the contents into a big truck and haul it away. You don't have to think about that waste again, either. But maybe you have wondered, as you watch the trash truck pull away, just where that garbage ends up.
Go to the following website: How Stuff Works - How Landfills Works
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/landfill.htm
In your blogs, answer the following questions:
Blog TITLE: Landfills
Blog Assignment:
1. How much waste does one person make a day?
2. Of all waste created, what percentage is recycled or used as compost?
3. In the US, how much trash is thrown into landfills?
4. What is the difference between a dump and a landfill?
5. Why is the flow of water near a landfill important?
6. When a landfill is built, why does there have to be so much extra land surrounding the actual landfill? What is this for?
7. Consider - considering how much trash Americans produce each year, what do you think are some potential problems that we may encounter?
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