Davis Street Transfer Center

At the Davis Street Transfer Center, all the trash and the recycling from Alameda County goes here. The transfer center collects all the garbage the gets dumped into the"pit" where all the garbage goes. In the "pit" a giant machine rolls over all the garbage to create more room. Also to keep birds away from the garbage to prevent them from eating the garbage, the transfer center has a machine the generates a loud sound, similar to a gun to keep birds away.

I've learned that a lot of items that are being thrown away don't belong where they should be. At the transfer center I saw a lot of bottles and cardboard boxes that could have been recycled, but instead have been in the garbage pile. And the most shocking thing of all that I saw that could have been recycled was a refrigerator. We could make the worker's jobs at the transfer center easier if we just all our recyclables in the right categories.

After the garbage is done being sorted at the transfer center, the garbage then gets transfered to the landfill in Livermore. A landfill is a place where all the garbage goes. Usually landfills are located in remote areas. Also some "hills" you might see when you're in your car on a country side might really garbage hills because most landfills are artificial hills.



The Davis Street Transfer Center is a waste treatment facility that serves 20 Bay Area cities. The facilities goal is to divert 75% of municipal trash away from landfills and into recyclable materials.

Davis Street Transfer Center

Recycle plastics and bottles
Recycle wood into garden mulch which fertilizes the ground
Process yard trimmings for compost
Recycle e-waste: old computers, electronic equipment and cell phones

http://www.dsgardencenter.com/index.asp


Information about landfills

http://science.howstuffworks.com/landfill.htm

Waste Audit

The students gathered trash from different classrooms and wanted to see what kinds of materials they would find in the trash that weren't supposed to be there.





Then the students weighted the trash they gathered from the class rooms.












Next the students dumped the trash on to a plastic to sort the trash.






After dumping the trash, the students sorted the garbage into different piles; plastics, bottles, food, paper, etc.

Litter Survey

My classmates and I wanted to see how littered our school would be before and after lunch. we took a picture of certain areas before lunch, then after lunch.

Before lunch the campus was very clean, almost immaculate, you couldn't find a lot of litter.








Then after lunch you couldn't tell that you were looking at the same area as before. there was litter everywhere. It seems that the students don't care about what they are doing to their campus or how it looks. Students would rather leave their food wrappers, lunch bowls, or fruit peelings on the ground, than just walk a few feet to a garbage can.

Recycleing At Home

I recycle at home to help reduce litter and so that companies can reuse materials I don't Need anymore, like plastic, glass cans, and cardboard.

Even if you don't recycle at home, you should start. It may not seem that you are not making a big difference, but least you're not adding to problem. The more people you get to recycle the more healthier our planet will be.

Welcome

Welcome to my blog where I will be discussing about the 4R's. In case you don't know know what the 4R's are, they stand for; Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,& Rot. I will also talk about SLWRP (pronounced like slurp) which stands for Service-Learning Waste Reduction Project. It is a program that helps raise awareness of alternative ways to recycle things that you may not need anymore.