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Reflection week 2

   This week has been awesome and we have gotten so much work done. We grinded out our flyers which consisted of sustainability, composting, and recycling. These flyers had a ton of work put into them using the app canva Caroline showed us. We were productive with our work on these and finished them up in a few hours all combined. They were fun to make and we had so much fun doing it. we got busy at home and started our morning by setting up a call with Mark Kodak, Caroline’s step father. Mark has a strong background in the recycling business he worked for sunshine recycling. His job for them was to create a business model to most effectively recycle. His job consisted of a lot of math, he had to calculate how much energy it would take to ship recycling to the factory versus how much it actually took to recycle the bottle. For isolated towns like Telluride CO, he found that energy to ship the recycling was more than the actual process. This brought up a great point for Is as we have be
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Wolfboro Day 14

 Today we picked up more trash than we ever have before.  It was an extremely successful day at lake Winnepisaukee.  We started off our day on the trial that ran through the middle of part of the lake with a nice view. There were several people fishing off the trail and while picking up trash we found a lot of fish- related trash left behind. After walking on the trail we made our way around the lake where we found serval pieces of trash.  We filled up an entire bag of black trash! After getting back to catherine’s we seperated the trash because there was a few bottles. We brought this to the dump afterwards. Hours 1-2 
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Express fest work day 13

 Today we used our time to take a trip to staples. We got a massive poster board along with markers, crayons, stickers, and construction paper. We also printed out more flyers and pictures of other fellow urfers we talked with so we could put them on the board. We worked on the poster for a couple hours, we used our art skills, talked about our interviews, and put some of our flyers on it as well. We also took time to put all of our Instagram stories and reels together @trashnomopew  Daily hours 3
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Day 12 interview Mark and Dump run

 Today we got busy at home and started our morning by setting up a call with Mark Kodak, Caroline’s step father. Mark has a strong background in the recycling business he worked for sunshine recycling. His job for them was to create a business model to most effectively recycle. His job consisted of a lot of math, he had to calculate how much energy it would take to ship recycling to the factory versus how much it actually took to recycle the bottle. For isolated towns like Telluride CO, he found that energy to ship the recycling was more than the actual process. This brought up a great point for Is as we have been promoting recycling for our senior project. He talked about the benefits, our earth looks cleaner, and we are protecting wildlife and ourselves! His main point of his business was to take these recyclable items and naming them into something else instead of shipping them off to a factory. He used an example of a glass bottle, grinding it up into sand and selling it to the tow
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Bradley Lake cleanup and Flyers Day 11

 Today our team was very lucky to have gotten the opportunity to spend it at Bradley Lake thanks to Mindy Bicknell. After talking to Mindy about my senior project, she very nicely offered for our group to go to her lake house on Bradley at some point, so we decided to take her up on that! We did not find a lot of trash at Bradley, we stopped a few times on the side of the road and also down at the “Main beach” but it was a close it community and was very clean. Although we didn’t find success, it was still a great thing to see. We thought it was going to be a different outcome at Bradley lake because it was a super windy day. After talking to Ron at the summit of Mt Kearsarge, we realized that wind should be accounted for in any environment especially on a body of water! We ended up going to Elbow to see if we could find anything but again no success. We made our way over to Concord and hung up pour flyers on composting, recycling, and sustainable living anywhere we could along Concord
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Mt Kearasarge

 Today was very eventful and one of my most favorite days during senior project!! We decided to join Lola, Grace, and Kelby’s hiking adventure and trudged our way to the summit of Mt Kearasarge. Catherine, Caroline, and I decided to bring our grip grabbers along with us for the hike up. We managed to grab a few pieces of trash but nothing crazy. Once we got to the top, we climbed up the fire lookout tower where we were greeted by a nice man named Ron! Rob proceeded to show us how what he does during his day at work. It was very interesting and we decided to ask Ron some questions about trash. He said, “Most of the trash I see is during the fall, many peoples water bottles will be placed down carelessly and then blown away by the strong gusts of wind” (Ron). He explained how most of this trash ends up at the bottom of the mountain and people like him have to go out of their way to pick it up. He said that due to global warming, there has been a significant increase in forest fires aroun
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Prep for activities fair and flyers Day 9

 Today was a very productive day, we started off the morning with a homemade egg breakfast. We composted the eggshells and egg carton from Catherine’s neighbors chickens! Then we watched “Our Earth” a Netflix documentary on the ocean and how we need to make a change before it’s too late. This documentary was inspiring and we learned a lot from it. It talked about greenhouse gas emissions being released into the atmosphere, this is due to cars, planes, and many other man made products. It was also made clear that living a sustainable life can help improve the problems us humans have made in nature. After this, we each three different flyers. These flyers were made up of living sustainably, importance of recycling, and composting. We worked hard on these and also learned in the process! It was fun and our team definitely wants to make more of these. Total hours 6 
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