Saturday, March 24, 2018
Assignment 21: Maggie Anderson
A problem I would like to solve is recycling in schools. You might assume from the recycling bins in almost every classroom that the problem is solved, that recycling thrives. But a brief study of human action belies this notion. So many students drop papers into a trashcan, right next to a recycling bin. They don't care. And if you ask them, I'll bet almost every one would voice support for recycling. One of the strongest examples of this is Physics. While the trash can sits in the middle of a central location, the recycling bin, by virtue of its size and shape, is half under a table a yard away, but still clearly visible. It kills me when I walk past it to put my paper in the recycling, seeing the trashcan filled with papers and watching my classmates throw more papers into it. I don't know whether they don't want to take the extra two steps or haven't bothered to notice, or actively look for, the blue bin. This class is the worst, but this happens to some degree in every class. Sustainability and stopping deforestation are very important to me and I know that schools by definition consume tons (literally) of paper every year. A while ago, people tried to solve this problem by putting recycling bins in schools. I'd like to solve it by putting recycling in schools.
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