Kazer Lake Everett

 Today was our first day starting our trash pick-up adventure.  In advance, we had already gotten tools like grip-grabbers, trash bags, and gloves. This equipment was essential for our work because it protected us from harmful objects. We got to Kezar Lake at 10am today and started our journey. Even as we were pulling in, the three of us noticed that there was no public trashcan. I got out of the car and immediately picked up seven items of trash with my grip-grabber. These items were in the parking lot where several people look to throw out their waste in a trashcan. The grip-grabber was nice because it let me reach trash in thorn bushes, and the gloves protected my hands. We walked around the trail of the lake and found a lot of trash near the waterline, these items were sometimes hard to get to because it was hard to keep your balance while snatching them. We found several bottles, cans, wrappers, and small baggies, all could be easily avoided with reusable containers! Our group left the lake at 2:00pm, and we took a thirty-minute lunch break at around 12:00pm. Once we got back on campus we carved out thirty minutes to look at Kazer Lake and plot out the best spots to leave trashcans available for the public.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Reflection week 1

      This week has been a massive learning experience for sure! We have had our ups and downs and navigated each of our days to make the most out of them. We went into this project thinking we were going to pick up trash every single day but we started to incorporate talking to small businesses as well which was a great addition. Each of us contribute to the project in positive ways, Caroline has helped a lot with the formatting of flyers, Catherine has provided us her home and shown us all of the spots we have traveled to, and I have helped by providing the drip grabbers buckets and gloves we use.       We started our trash pick up journey at Lowe’s where we stocked up on equipment. This was a fun day, and we also decided our first stop for project period. Kezar Lake was the first trash pick up site we did. It was a windy day and the sun was out, all three of us were excited to get to work. This was a small lake with a lot of camping ground and we fo...
Read more

Rail trail

 Today my mom our mentor came up to Catherine’s which was good because we have been talking over FaceTime. We went to proctor because we had a lacrosse game but we traveled up earlier than we needed to. Because we had time to kill we decided to go to the rail trail and show our mentor what we do in real life time. She was impressed with how much we have learned and was happy to see us scavenging for trash on the rail trail. My mom was interested in the store boneafide. We went there with her after she left catherine’s house and picked up some lunch containers and reusable rags! We said goodbye to our mentor, she was very pleased with our work. Our team is very excited to start interviewing more sustainable company managers 
Read more

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 Con...
Read more