The Green Challenge

[Audio] The Green Challenge By: Zach Lewis. Close-up of shoots growing in stone cracks.

[Audio] What did I do? I implemented recycling into my household as a way of being greener and to see how many recyclable materials we were throwing into normal trash bags without realizing..

[Audio] What are Things That we Recycle in Bermuda? In Bermuda we recycle, Glass Tin cans And Aluminum.

[Audio] What did I Expect? I expected that there would be more recyclable trash than there was from my household. I didn't realize how much recyclables we were throwing away into normal trash without even thinking..

[Audio] Weeks 1 and 2 Week 1 and 2 my family and I were still trying to get used to recycling as we hadn't done it for so long, we always had 2 trash cans right next to each other, so we were getting confused sometimes and putting things in the wrong bin..

[Audio] Weeks 3 and 4 By week 3 my family and I were used to the recycling and started to see how many things like glass bottles and cans we were throwing away instead of recycling..

[Audio] Weeks 5 and 6 Weeks 5 is where we saw the most waste because we had a family function at my house so there was a spike in how much recyclable waste we produced. Week 6 we saw less waste than we had seen the whole time with only half a blue bag full of waste..

[Audio] Week 7 and 8 Weeks 7 and 8 also did not have too much waste we produced just 1 full blue bag and a few cans within these two weeks..

[Audio] Did it go as I expected? No, it did not go as I expected I expected to see a lot more trash from just my family as we are a family of 6. I also did not expect it to be as difficult as it was to fully implement recycling into my household..

[Audio] Challenges I had along the way Some challenges I had along the way was trying to remember when I'm throwing something away to make sure I'm putting it into the right bin. It was even more of a challenge trying to get my family to do it as well..

[Audio] Some Facts about Recycling in Bermuda In Bermuda we Generate around 82,000 tons of recyclable waste annually. Yet we only recycle around 1,640 tons annually. That means we recycle around 2% of our annual recyclable waste. This is very low compared to the average percenage in the USA where they average around 35%..

[Audio] This is the chart with the comparison of how much waste my household produced versus the average household in the U.S.

[Audio] Work Cited. Codes on papers. Work Cited. https://www.grownyc.org/recycling/facts#:~:text=Waste%20in%20New%20York%20City,up%205.7%25%20of%20our%20waste. https://www.bookcleango.com/blog/recycling-statistics#:~:text=The%20municipal%20solid%20waste%20(MSW,ended%20up%20in%20the%20trash..

[Audio] The End. The End.