For the solution letter, we had to write to someone about recycling or helping someone recycle. I wrote to Mr. Isaac, who is the Director at HTHNC. I had developed a sorting system that was easy and efficient. It would separate people garbage into, recycle, trash, and compostable. The waste that this school would create would lessen from my sorting system. I enjoyed the project because I felt it actually had meaning to it and it connected to the real world. We were actually making something even if it was just really small.
Solution Letter Final:
1420 West San Marcos Blvd
San Marcos CA, 92078
December 5, 2014
Director of High Tech High North County
1420 West San Marcos Blvd
San Marcos CA, 92078
Dear Mr.Isaac,
Hello, my name is Mason Royal. I'm a freshmen at your school High Tech High North County. I'm currently on the Ramirez/Geller/Vetter team. I'm writing to you regarding the recycling system at school and also ways to improve it. The issue I have noticed now is things aren't being sorted, everything is going to trash when it should be being recycled. I have emptied out a trash and seen plastic bottles or wrappers, things that shouldn't be in the trash can. I have created a sorting system that is easy and also efficient. My sorting system would lessen the recycling going into trash and even maybe in time make our school zero landfill. This will hopefully reduce the waste our school creates. Now all I need you to do is really just apply it to the school, really just make it all happen.
My sorting system is one that a school uses that I read about online. The school is known as Minnetonka Middle School West, a lot of school use different methods but this is one that I thought looked the best. It was simple but yet still efficient and got the job done. They just put it in their cafeteria. We’d have it in other places such as inside the school, lunch tables, and around the turf. The students at Minnetonka Middle had about 93% improvement in capturing recyclables and successfully sorting their compostables. There would be 3 trash cans lined up next to each other and there'd be a cap going over the three cans. That divides them into three separate categories, trash, recycle, and compost. Our system will be similar to theirs.
Other schools have created a recycling system and it has worked great for them. At North Routt Community Charter School, one single teacher started a recycling program. Subr (2014) says,“We promote non-waste. Every room has a recycling bin.” What she did was promote recycling in her community and the schools, with posters and reaching out to the students around the school and it seemed to have worked. Later Kelly Subr got help in promoting non-waste from people around her community and school. It was her idea and actions that made their school zero landfill. Through the help she got it really pushed it through and made it happen.
It could also save a lot of money for the school and the families of students. Some places in the USA have a deposit on recyclable bottles and cans like California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York. For example, a $0.10 deposit for each can or bottle we buy. In order for us to get our money back, we need to recycle them.The students could reuse plastic bags. Also reuseable things like aluminum water bottles that I know our school sells. This way parents wouldn't spend as much money on buying things. It'd make the trash pile less and help out the schools recycling too. So what we could also do is maybe promote kids to buy some of these reuseable things I mentioned and also try to get parents to get into it as well.
These are all reasons why that I think you should go through with my recycling system. I feel that it won't let you down and it'll really work if we try it. If you want to contact me for any question my email is: [email protected]
Sincerely,
Mason Royal
9th Grade Student
Solution Letter Final:
1420 West San Marcos Blvd
San Marcos CA, 92078
December 5, 2014
Director of High Tech High North County
1420 West San Marcos Blvd
San Marcos CA, 92078
Dear Mr.Isaac,
Hello, my name is Mason Royal. I'm a freshmen at your school High Tech High North County. I'm currently on the Ramirez/Geller/Vetter team. I'm writing to you regarding the recycling system at school and also ways to improve it. The issue I have noticed now is things aren't being sorted, everything is going to trash when it should be being recycled. I have emptied out a trash and seen plastic bottles or wrappers, things that shouldn't be in the trash can. I have created a sorting system that is easy and also efficient. My sorting system would lessen the recycling going into trash and even maybe in time make our school zero landfill. This will hopefully reduce the waste our school creates. Now all I need you to do is really just apply it to the school, really just make it all happen.
My sorting system is one that a school uses that I read about online. The school is known as Minnetonka Middle School West, a lot of school use different methods but this is one that I thought looked the best. It was simple but yet still efficient and got the job done. They just put it in their cafeteria. We’d have it in other places such as inside the school, lunch tables, and around the turf. The students at Minnetonka Middle had about 93% improvement in capturing recyclables and successfully sorting their compostables. There would be 3 trash cans lined up next to each other and there'd be a cap going over the three cans. That divides them into three separate categories, trash, recycle, and compost. Our system will be similar to theirs.
Other schools have created a recycling system and it has worked great for them. At North Routt Community Charter School, one single teacher started a recycling program. Subr (2014) says,“We promote non-waste. Every room has a recycling bin.” What she did was promote recycling in her community and the schools, with posters and reaching out to the students around the school and it seemed to have worked. Later Kelly Subr got help in promoting non-waste from people around her community and school. It was her idea and actions that made their school zero landfill. Through the help she got it really pushed it through and made it happen.
It could also save a lot of money for the school and the families of students. Some places in the USA have a deposit on recyclable bottles and cans like California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York. For example, a $0.10 deposit for each can or bottle we buy. In order for us to get our money back, we need to recycle them.The students could reuse plastic bags. Also reuseable things like aluminum water bottles that I know our school sells. This way parents wouldn't spend as much money on buying things. It'd make the trash pile less and help out the schools recycling too. So what we could also do is maybe promote kids to buy some of these reuseable things I mentioned and also try to get parents to get into it as well.
These are all reasons why that I think you should go through with my recycling system. I feel that it won't let you down and it'll really work if we try it. If you want to contact me for any question my email is: [email protected]
Sincerely,
Mason Royal
9th Grade Student