Environmental Issue:
Landfills can have adverse effects on the environment ("EcoEvaluator" 2015). We need to reduce landfills by decreasing the amount of recyclables that are improperly disposed of. Since many of Augustana 's students have recently moved out of their homes for the first time, and their parents may have been the main contributors to the environmentally friendly practices, the Sustainability Fair is hoping to educate people on how to practice sustainability on their own. The students may think there is no point in learning how to properly dispose of waste because they do not understand the negative effects of neglected recyclables, or they might believe recycling to be too inconvenient .
Society ignoring sustainable practices could lead to excessive landfills, which could allow for the leachate produced by landfills to contaminate freshwater supplies (Dickman, and Rygiel. 1998). The small scale issue of overflowing landfills includes the lack of advertising aimed at the people who need it most- young adults (Saphores, Jean-Daniel, and Nixon. 2014). When many new adults move out on their own they do not know how to recycle properly because, as children, their parents attended to the waste management. The large scale issue is the adverse effects that not recycling and filling up the landfills with potentially recyclable items causes to the environment. 'The most important determinants of household recycling are people 's attitudes toward recycling. '(Saphores, Jean-Daniel, and Nixon. 2014 abstract). Some people believe that we will never fill up the landfills, and the liners we have in place are sufficient to combat against leaching and subsequently believe that recycling is unnecessary and redundant. Some students may also be convinced that it is a much too inconvenient practice to integrate into their home lives. Therefore, we must educate people on the dangers of overflowing landfills and sustainability practices in general. There are potentially recyclable materials such as packaging wastes around the holidays, that are simply thrown in the garbage which significantly impacts the landfill levels as 1/3 of Canadian waste is from packaging (Dearden, and Mitchell. 2012 464) The larger issue includes the aforementioned negative effects such as leachate contaminating fresh water sources, overflowing landfills, and Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) which are both 'classes of persistent organic pollutants with potential major health and environmental concerns '(Li, Danon-Schaffer, Li, Ikonomou, and Grace. 2012. abstract). Many products that contain PBDE- and PFC are eventually thrown away in landfills. In samples from 28 waste management sites in Canada, PBDEs and PFCs were detected in almost all landfill leachate samples (Li, Danon-Schaffer, Li, Ikonomou, and Grace. 2012.) Knowledge about these effects are important because if people would confront the small issues first,and …show more content…
It is my goal to positively reinforce the knowledge students learn pertaining to waste management and recycling. We want to engage young people in our activities so they will hopefully be able to retain the knowledge that they gain.My group and I have cultivated the game‘What goes where’ Twister-in which we play twister with limbs that are potentially recyclable materials and circles that are the colours of recycling bins. This tests the knowledge of some Augustana students and improves the knowledge of others. We are also going to be playing Waste management Jeopardy-in which we offer positive reinforcement for people’s prior knowledge regarding waste management, and encourages people to learn something
Landfills can have adverse effects on the environment ("EcoEvaluator" 2015). We need to reduce landfills by decreasing the amount of recyclables that are improperly disposed of. Since many of Augustana 's students have recently moved out of their homes for the first time, and their parents may have been the main contributors to the environmentally friendly practices, the Sustainability Fair is hoping to educate people on how to practice sustainability on their own. The students may think there is no point in learning how to properly dispose of waste because they do not understand the negative effects of neglected recyclables, or they might believe recycling to be too inconvenient .
Society ignoring sustainable practices could lead to excessive landfills, which could allow for the leachate produced by landfills to contaminate freshwater supplies (Dickman, and Rygiel. 1998). The small scale issue of overflowing landfills includes the lack of advertising aimed at the people who need it most- young adults (Saphores, Jean-Daniel, and Nixon. 2014). When many new adults move out on their own they do not know how to recycle properly because, as children, their parents attended to the waste management. The large scale issue is the adverse effects that not recycling and filling up the landfills with potentially recyclable items causes to the environment. 'The most important determinants of household recycling are people 's attitudes toward recycling. '(Saphores, Jean-Daniel, and Nixon. 2014 abstract). Some people believe that we will never fill up the landfills, and the liners we have in place are sufficient to combat against leaching and subsequently believe that recycling is unnecessary and redundant. Some students may also be convinced that it is a much too inconvenient practice to integrate into their home lives. Therefore, we must educate people on the dangers of overflowing landfills and sustainability practices in general. There are potentially recyclable materials such as packaging wastes around the holidays, that are simply thrown in the garbage which significantly impacts the landfill levels as 1/3 of Canadian waste is from packaging (Dearden, and Mitchell. 2012 464) The larger issue includes the aforementioned negative effects such as leachate contaminating fresh water sources, overflowing landfills, and Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) which are both 'classes of persistent organic pollutants with potential major health and environmental concerns '(Li, Danon-Schaffer, Li, Ikonomou, and Grace. 2012. abstract). Many products that contain PBDE- and PFC are eventually thrown away in landfills. In samples from 28 waste management sites in Canada, PBDEs and PFCs were detected in almost all landfill leachate samples (Li, Danon-Schaffer, Li, Ikonomou, and Grace. 2012.) Knowledge about these effects are important because if people would confront the small issues first,and …show more content…
It is my goal to positively reinforce the knowledge students learn pertaining to waste management and recycling. We want to engage young people in our activities so they will hopefully be able to retain the knowledge that they gain.My group and I have cultivated the game‘What goes where’ Twister-in which we play twister with limbs that are potentially recyclable materials and circles that are the colours of recycling bins. This tests the knowledge of some Augustana students and improves the knowledge of others. We are also going to be playing Waste management Jeopardy-in which we offer positive reinforcement for people’s prior knowledge regarding waste management, and encourages people to learn something