activity questions

One of the main things I learned from sorting through all of the trash that we found was how wasteful many people were. There were many uneaten sandwiches, unopened snacks, and wasted food that could have been eaten. This plays a big role in the sustainability focus of this year. Being wasteful is about as far away as you can get from being conservative and being sustainable. When you think about it, most Americans are very lazy, and when your lazy, you always try to take the easy way out. Even if the easy was out is not always the right way, many people do not take into account the significance of their actions. For example, littering. When people act lazy and throw their trash onto the ground, they don't take into account what happens to the trash after it is thrown onto the ground. They assume that someone will pick up all of their trash, but they are wrong. Most times the trash end up going down drains and into the sewers, which can't be good. Another thing I learned is that There is actually a lot of things that can be recycled that I thought would never be able to. If you look on the bottom of any container, you can check if it is recyclable or not.

This activity got me thinking. Would reusing the left over food as pig food be a good idea? or would composting it in one of our composts be a better idea? both help the society in a number of ways. By feeding the pigs the leftovers, it will diminish the need for farmers to buy food for them, and also put our leftover food to a good use. Composting the leftover food is also a good idea. By doing this, we can turn the food that we used into nutrition for plants, and complete a full cycle of sustainability. It will directly affect the MPI community and also get the students and teachers one step closer to making our classes live and breath sustainability.