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Selection of Topic
What is your career pathway?
Biological Science
Your capstone should take one of the topics that are common to your pathway electives and build a real
world project out of that topic. Which topic will you select for your capstone?
I will implement a recycling program at the local NWFFL (North Weymouth Flag Football League)
fields, and compare how foreign countries, specifically Spain, France, and Italy, recycle in comparison
to how we recycle in the United States.
How will your chosen electives help you create a project about this theme? (Be specific about each
elective.)
AP Environmental Science as well as AP Biology will help me talk about the effects of recycling on the
communities in both the United States and Europe. As I have recently gone overseas, I collected pictures
of European methods of recycling.
Do you already have a group? Circle Yes or No. If so list the names of the people in your group along
with their pathway
I am doing my capstone with Aoife Duffy. She is in the Medical pathway. YES
Step 3:
Capstone Proposal
Student Name _____Patrick Sullivan _______________________
Project Advisor________Mrs. Gosselin_____________________________
Career Pathway __________Biological Science______________
My project idea focuses on a topic related to my career pathway. It will
sustain my interest and I will be able to complete the required research on
this topic. It offers an aspect of new learning and growth for me as I
incorporate the 7 core skills. I understand that my project must have
audio/visual evidence and that I will give a presentation of my work at the
capstone fair in March.
Breaking your project into definable steps will make the process much easier
for you. Setting up a timeline will help you begin and assist you in
continuing to make progress throughout the time allotted for the project.
Figuring out how much this project is going to cost may keep you from
running into problems later in the project. If you put some time and effort
into planning at the beginning, you will find the process of completing your
project much easier to handle.
2. My goal (s) for this project: (Make sure these have a real world
application)
My goal for this project is to implement a recycling program, collect
photos or recycling systems overseas as well as gather interviews, and
collect photos and videos of recycling in different United States
locations.
The Senior Capstone Project will provide enormous benefits for your child
now and for the future. Successful completion of the Senior Capstone Project
is a valuable tool in determining their mastery of the content they have
learned over the past twelve years, as well as providing them the
opportunity to learn and practice critical 21st Century skills that they will
need for their future endeavors.
Patrick Sullivan
Capstone
Ms. Gosselin
13 September 2016
Journal of Progress
At this point in my work, Aoife and I have already gathered much of the data of our
project by traveling overseas. With our topic partially being focused on international ways of
recycling, taking pictures and videos of locals talking about their countries ways of recycling
was exciting and new. They are much more organized that us in that they use color coating for
bottles, plastics, and paper. The French were the worst recyclers compared to Spain and Italy
who had compact systems down pat that worked very well. Back in the United States, I have
been taking pictures of our methods of recycling when visiting colleges. Also, Aoife and I have
started a program in Weymouth at the flag football fields for recycling, and my data should begin
in the next journal of progress.
Patrick Sullivan
Capstone
Ms. Gosselin
26 September 2016
Journal of Progress 2
Building off of my last journal, Aoife and I have used our central question and zeroed in
our focuses for the project. We have obtained our new recycling bins and put them down at the
Flag Football Fields in Weymouth by Abigail Adams Middle School. After the first weekend, we
had moderate success, but we expect even better results in the future. Since some people threw
trash in the barrels by accident, we are zip-tying down the barrels and drilling circles in the lids
to only bottles and recyclables can go through. Also, we are laminating signs to tag on each of
the barrels that are alerting people that we are doing it for our capstone and to please recycle. As
far as my research is going, my annotated bibliographies should reflect my international
recycling information, as our central question includes both international and national methods
of recycling. I want at least 3 of them to center in on each of the countries I have visited in Spain,
France, and Italy. Right now, no new materials are required for my progression in our project as I
basically have everything at our fingertips. Everything is moving slowly, and future journals and
annotated bibliographies should have me hopefully talking about progress with our real world
application, and how its improving the environment.
Step 5:
Journal of Progress 1
Each journal entry should be dated and titled based upon the part of
the process in which you are currently working.
The Journal of Progress will be used in steps 4-8 of the Capstone Timeline.
Starting with Step 4 and ending with Step 8, you must send your advisor
your journal entries once a month on the date that the step is due. You will
compile all of these entries into your capstone portfolio. This will be
displayed when you present at the capstone fair and will be passed into your
advisor along with your reflection paper at the end of the project.
On the next page, we have included a sample journal progress entry. You
should plan to follow this format.
Date: 10/9/16
Start of Week:
Place a check next to the corresponding date. Choose only one. You must do an
entry 2 times a month, due on homeroom days when steps are due.
By the end of this upcoming Sunday, I hope to increase the recyclables I collect at
the North Weymouth Flag Football League fields, and get out of our current slump of
low turn-outs due to the weather.
What are your needs, including time, space, materials, and personal contacts?
I need to be at the fields by 7:30am on Sunday, October 9 th, 2016 and strategically
place the bins throughout the fields. I need to come back at 1:30pm to collect the
barrels and review how much I have collected. Later that night, I will meet up with
Aoife and weigh our bins along with record our variables for the week.
What obstacles do you anticipate and how can you overcome these obstacles?
Advice and support is always nice in my ventures, but at this point, I am really just
collecting my data for my real world connection.
End of Week
Date: __________10/9/16________________________
Very low turnout, not just for the recyclables, but for the players and people in
general at the fields. I was correct in that the weather did cause a major problem,
causing my numbers to be very low. On the other hand, the barrel in the dry area
collected a little bit more than the wet area, which can be valuable to my variables.
Discuss how you employed each of the core skills this week.
Problem solving The placement of the barrels down the the fields had me
think logically about the best location for the barrels.
Technology I used my computer to do the annotated bibliographies
Collaboration Aoife and I worked together on recording the data after the
collection of the recyclables, and discussed how we can improve our
collection rates
Oral communication - Began to ask public about if they use recycling program and
how they feel about it
Step 5: Patrick Sullivan
Journal of Progress 2
Each journal entry should be dated and titled based upon the part of
the process in which you are currently working.
The first entry each week should address what you anticipate for the
week including:
o What you plan to accomplish by the end of the week
o Your needs, including time, space, materials, and personal
contacts
o Any obstacles you anticipate
The Journal of Progress will be used in steps 4-8 of the Capstone Timeline.
Starting with Step 4 and ending with Step 8, you must send your advisor
your journal entries once a month on the date that the step is due. You will
compile all of these entries into your capstone portfolio. This will be
displayed when you present at the capstone fair and will be passed into your
advisor along with your reflection paper at the end of the project.
On the next page, we have included a sample journal progress entry. You
should plan to follow this format.
Sample journal of progress entry:
Journal of Progress
Current step: 5
Date: 10/16/16
Start of Week:
Place a check next to the corresponding date. Choose only one. You must do an
entry 2 times a month, due on homeroom days when steps are due.
By the end of the week, I hope to gain more knowledge of my recycling programs
progress down at the Flag Football Fields by collecting the recyclables I collect.
What are your needs, including time, space, materials, and personal contacts?
I hope for good weather, as it directly affects my progress. I need to arrive early so I
can set up my new variables for the week, and be prepared to collect my
recyclables at about 1:30pm. My target is 10 pounds of recyclables this week.
What obstacles do you anticipate and how can you overcome these obstacles?
Date: ____________10/16/16______________________
I was much more successful this week than last week, totaling nine pounds of
recyclables. My variables included warm, sunny weather with a cool breeze, and I
separated the barrels from the trash, instead of leaving it right next to the others.
All 3 of the barrels ended up on Mitchell field with the younger kids, and more
players. The barrels were available for use from 8:30am until 1:30pm on Sunday,
October 16th.
Discuss how you employed each of the core skills this week.
At the capstone fair, Aoife and I plan to have a tri-fold board set-up with mainly
our numbers and findings in small blurbs with the meat of the project in our
capstone binder on the table. We want to have a laptop set up ready to go with
all our images from foreign countries and how their recycling methods are
improved compared to ours in the United States. We will bring in one of our
barrels to help explain our recycling methods for the real world application, and
be prepared with our survey results and our interviews.
Patrick Sullivan
Ms. Gosselin
Capstone
28 November 2016
Synthesis Paper Step 6
Central Question: What are the underlying incentives of recycling in Foreign Countries and in
the United States? How does Recycling affect the environment?
In searching for an answer to this question, all of the information I have found for this
process have been learned through databases and the internet, or through personal interactions
doing my real world application. When I first approached this problem, it was hard for me to
understand why people do not recycle. Clearly, its beneficial to our earth because of its abilities
to slow the rate at which landfills are used and reduces finances because products are being
reused (Guide). So before I investigated why our recycling outputs as a nation are low, I studied
how other countries recycle and why it works for them.
My partner Aoife and I went abroad with the high school and investigated how Spain,
France, and Italy recycle, and if they are considered a high output or low output country in terms
of recyclables collected. Starting in Spain, we noticed that they color-coat their bins, as they sort
recyclables differently instead of single-stream. According to an article published by Spanish
Unlimited, they have barrels for cardboard and paper, bottles, cans, and even cooking oil
(Tyson). In France, they are considered a horrible country as far as Europes standards go for
recycling. France only recycles 23% of their waste, a number far below Europes target of 50%
by 2020 (Inge). Finally, in Italy, they are much better than their neighbors France. Considered the
marquee country in Europe, Italy claims to own the best system of collecting recyclables, hosting
recycling events for other countries and also color-coating similar to Spain (Italian). While
present in the countries, I was able to garner approximately 50 photos of how these countries
recycle, and was able to gather two interviews from people who worked in Spain and Italy. In
comparison to Germany though, all countries need to step their game up (Delfin).
Now that I understood how those foreign countries recycled, and I know how American
recycles because I recycle every day, I wanted to know its true effect on the environment. I began
my research by going to the website I believed to have the answers for me in the EPA, or
Environmental Protection Agency. Here, I found that when we recycle, we are promoting the
prevention of pollution, collecting new raw materials, and saving money and energy (Rec.
Basics). Digging deeper (literally and figuratively), I researched through the EPA what recycling
does for nutrients in the environment. I learned that nutrient pollution can single-handedly ruin
aquatic ecosystems, and cause acid rain which is horrible for earth (Nut. Pollution). The only true
negatives of recycling is that debris can be mixed in, but that people definitely should not be
shying away from recycling (Carson). The amount of natural resources we leave for future
generations is truly insurmountable, because of how slowly they grow (Bryant). An article
published by Care2 Healthy Living also highlights that recycling helps save habitats and
improves living conditions for animals in the wild (Citron-Fink). Before people knew the results
of recycling, I wanted to know why people started recycling in the first place. The answer is
actually simple: deforestation and a decrease in everyday costs for the everyday man (Painter).
Taking this all into consideration, I focused my real world application around this in creating a
recycling program at the North Weymouth Flag Football League in hopes of improving our area
in Weymouth.
Lastly, I wanted to know if there was a reason people recycled, and if enforced, could in
return improve the earth. As I began research, the Journal of Health and Social Behavior had an
article on how OECD companies were implementing recycling programs into all of their
businesses in order to flourish as a company, which I found interesting (Rec. Markets). But the
article I found on the National Center for Biotechnology Information, despite being short, was
very influential. The article spoke out about how a case study was done in Hong Kong about
when they offered households a monetary reward for recycling, the per-household weight of
recyclables increased (Yau). Now knowing that money could be the key, I investigated that
variable. A Norweigan article I found includes monetary rewards in countries like Norway
(Halvorsen), and that even in the United States, a point-based system which exchanges for
money is being developed (RecyclePerks).
Overall, my question has been answered, and I feel comfortable with all that I have done
with my real world application. I feel prepared to move forward with the Capstone process.
Works Cited
Bryant, Jessamy. What Will Happen If We Dont Recycle? Recycling. Weebly, 22 Oct. 2014.
Web. 21 Oct. 2016.
Carson, Amy. How Does Recycling Affect The Environment? Positives and Negatives. Bright
Hub. Ed. Laurie Patsalides. N.p., 08 July 2010. Web. 21 Oct. 2016.
Citron-Fink, Ronnie. 5 Reasons Why People Dont Recycle and 5 Reasons They Should.
Care2 Healthy Living. Care2.com, 04 Aug. 2011. Web. 21 Oct. 2016.
Delfin, Marty. Recycling Woes. Iberosphere. N.p., 16 Mar. 2011. Web. 21 Oct. 2016.
Halvorsen, Bente. Effects of Norms and Policy Incentives on Household Recycling: An
International Comparison. Resources, Conservation, and Recycling 67 (2012): 18-26.
Www.ssb.no. Aug. 2010. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.
Improving Recycling Markets. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 53.3 (2007).
Www.oecd.org. OECD. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.
Inge, Sophie. French Recycling Rates Slammed as Disastrous. The Local France. The Local
Europe AB, 24 Apr. 2015. Web. 24 Sept. 2016.
Painter, Sally. Why Do People Choose To Recycle? LoveToKnow. N.p., 26 Dec. 2010. Web. 21
Oct. 2016.
Recycling Basics. EPA. Environmental Protection Agency, 07 Apr. 2016. Web. 24 Sept. 2016.
Recycling Incentive Program. RecyclePerks. InkThemes, n.d. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.
Recycling Is Important. Recycling Guide. Fubra Limited, 14 Feb. 2008. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.
The Effects of Nutrient Pollution: Environment. EPA. Environmental Protection Agency, 27
Jan. 2016. Web. 24 Sept. 2016.
The Italian Mode: How Italy Leads the Way in Europe in Separate Waste Collection Systems.
Recycling & Waste World. MA Business Ltd, 19 June 2014. Web. 24 Sept. 2016.
Tyson. Recycling in Spain, Spanish Culture. Spanish Unlimited. Internet Educational Services,
06 Nov. 2014. Web. 24 Sept. 2016.
Yau, Yung. Domestic Waste Recycling, Collective Action, and Economic Incentive: The Case in
Hong Kong. National Center for Biotechnology Information. U.S. National Library of
Medicine, 30 Dec. 2010. Web. 27 Nov. 2016
Describe how you will present your capstone to your advisor and the
attendees at the capstone fair.
Aoife and I will have a tri-fold board set up at our table. It will be mostly covered
with before and after data of how much recycling our real world application has
collected and mark the improvements made in Weymouth using our techniques
learned from Europe. The rest of the board will contain underlying motives for
recycling across the world, and display what we learned from Spain, France, and
Italys progress made in the recycling universe. On the table, we will have a laptop
ready to go with a slideshow of our pictures showing the difference between
European countries recycling and how the United States recycles. Also, we have
two interviews with people from Europe talking about the importance of recycling
in their homes.
Please sketch out and label what your tri-fold will look like and
describe in writing what your table will look like at the capstone fair
night.
Core 21st Description of how the presentation of your project will help you
Century Skill showcase your mastery of this 21st century skill. Refer to the
school-wide rubrics to help you with this.
Strategic The strategic reading involved in finding my research for my annotated
Reading bibliographies will be displayed in my portfolio present either on the laptop in
electronic form, or in a binder on the table
Written The Written Synthesis, Self-Assessment Reflection and my written
Communicatio communication at the capstone fair will also be present in whatever form of
portfolio I have, which will allow me to communicate with the judges how
n important my sources were in my investigative research.
Research The research done to answer Aoife and Is central working question has been
quite extensive, as we have photos from other countries researching their
recycling methods, interviews gaining insight, and going through databases
researching underlying incentives of recycling.
Problem Following the steps to complete the capstone project and your capstone
Solving portfolio will definitely require problem solving, because we want to be fully
prepared for any questions come capstone fair night, and during research,
problem solving is needed to weed out the bad sources and keep the good,
beneficial ones.
Technology The slideshow of pictures from both foreign countries and the United States
recycling systems will be present. Also, the two recorded interviews will be
present, and my portfolio itself may even be online.
Collaboration My partnership with Aoife all throughout the process of capstone, and
meeting fairly regularly with Ms. Gosselin will have me extremely well
prepared for the Capstone fair and any questions the judges throw my way.
Oral The presentation of my project, as well as communicating well with the
Communicatio judges on the night of capstone fair will go very smoothly thanks to the
preparation I have with my collaboration skills learned.
n
Each journal entry should be dated and titled based upon the part of
the process in which you are currently working.
The first entry each week should address what you anticipate for the
week including:
o What you plan to accomplish by the end of the week
o Your needs, including time, space, materials, and personal
contacts
o Any obstacles you anticipate
The Journal of Progress will be used in steps 4-8 of the Capstone Timeline.
Starting with Step 4 and ending with Step 8, you must send your advisor
your journal entries once a month on the date that the step is due. You will
compile all of these entries into your capstone portfolio. This will be
displayed when you present at the capstone fair and will be passed into your
advisor along with your reflection paper at the end of the project.
On the next page, we have included a sample journal progress entry. You
should plan to follow this format.
Date: 11/6/16
Start of Week:
Place a check next to the corresponding date. Choose only one. You must do an
entry 2 times a month, due on homeroom days when steps are due.
By the end of the week, I plan to have completed my survey after speaking with
approximately 50 people at the Weymouth Flag Football fields. Also, I would like to
collect one last week of data, considering the barrels will be placed in new spots for
the weekend and the weather should be clear and cold.
What are your needs, including time, space, materials, and personal contacts?
I am going to need my Dads help delivering the barrels in his truck from my house
to the fields. Also, Aoife and I need to set up the barrels before the first game at
eight oclock, so we must plan on arriving by 7:45am. I need Mike Concannon, the
man who owns the league, to give me consent to go through with the survey.
What obstacles do you anticipate and how can you overcome these obstacles?
The only real obstacle that could get in my way for my final day of the real world
application is the weather, which I really cannot control. It is also not a big deal
because if the games are canceled this week, they will be rescheduled for next
weekend, so my data and survey answers will be completed regardless.
End of Week
Date: 11/13/16
The week went exactly as planned, which is always nice. Aoife and I arrived at
Mitchell Field bright and early, set up our barrels, and let people begin recycling. As
this was going on, we walked around to various players and parents on the field and
asked them how they felt the recycling program went and if they thought it was
influential and made a difference. We were limited on time, so we asked as many
people as we could to gather a good sampling size. Aside from the real world
application, I conducted more research on foreign affairs for recycling and found
sources I think may be worthy of becoming an annotated bibliography of mine.
Discuss how you employed each of the core skills this week.
Each journal entry should be dated and titled based upon the part of
the process in which you are currently working.
The Journal of Progress will be used in steps 4-8 of the Capstone Timeline.
Starting with Step 4 and ending with Step 8, you must send your advisor
your journal entries once a month on the date that the step is due. You will
compile all of these entries into your capstone portfolio. This will be
displayed when you present at the capstone fair and will be passed into your
advisor along with your reflection paper at the end of the project.
On the next page, we have included a sample journal progress entry. You
should plan to follow this format.
Date: 11/20/16
Start of Week:
Place a check next to the corresponding date. Choose only one. You must do an
entry 2 times a month, due on homeroom days when steps are due.
By the end of the week, I plan on having Step 6 all completed! I need to do the
Synthesis Paper and the annotated bibliographies as that will be the only portion of
this step I will be missing after submitting my second journal entry.
What are your needs, including time, space, materials, and personal contacts?
I want to try and space everything out throughout the week so I am not scrambling
to finish everything on Sunday, although I fear that may happen as I am going away
for Thanksgiving. If that does happen, I will need all day Sunday and I will need to
find a quiet spot to put forth the best work I can. I need my laptop and my notebook
with all my real world application information too.
What obstacles do you anticipate and how can you overcome these obstacles?
The only obstacle I can anticipate is my laptop deciding to no longer work, but I can
overcome this obstacle my borrowing my neighbors laptop or going to the library
and renting a computer.
My advisor can help me this week by being supportive considering my real world
application is already done and I just need to get the paperwork done. I need to
meet with her also so I can show her our progress.
End of Week
Date: 11/27/16
Throughout this week, I have been extremely busy. I did pace myself out a little bit
by getting the first journal entry done along with the step 6 paper. On Sunday, I
finished the synthesis paper required for step 6 along with the annotated
bibliographies. While it took a long time to complete, I finished step 6 and am ready
to tackle step 7.
Discuss how you employed each of the core skills this week.
Each journal entry should be dated and titled based upon the part of
the process in which you are currently working.
The first entry each week should address what you anticipate for the
week including:
o What you plan to accomplish by the end of the week
o Your needs, including time, space, materials, and personal
contacts
o Any obstacles you anticipate
The second entry each week should include the following:
o A summary of your progress for that week
o An explanation of what core skills you employed during your
work
The Journal of Progress will be used in steps 4-8 of the Capstone Timeline.
Starting with Step 4 and ending with Step 8, you must send your advisor
your journal entries once a month on the date that the step is due. You will
compile all of these entries into your capstone portfolio. This will be
displayed when you present at the capstone fair and will be passed into your
advisor along with your reflection paper at the end of the project.
On the next page, we have included a sample journal progress entry. You
should plan to follow this format.
Date: 12/7/16
Start of Week:
Place a check next to the corresponding date. Choose only one. You must do an
entry 2 times a month, due on homeroom days when steps are due.
By the end of the week, I want to have at least worked on the Step 7 sheet, and
begin thinking about how my tri-fold board will look.
What are your needs, including time, space, materials, and personal contacts?
I need to put aside a few hours to complete my real world application data, a tri-fold
board, and I must meet with Ms. Gosselin for my collaboration grade and for input
on how to link my central question and my real world application.
What obstacles do you anticipate and how can you overcome these obstacles?
The only obstacle I can foresee is an issue with scheduling a meeting with Ms.
Gosselin, so I will go to her as soon as possible so Aoife and I can display our real
world application.
End of Week
Date: __________________________________
I scheduled my meeting with Ms. Gosselin, and I bought my tri-fold board. By next
week, I will meet with Aoife to plan out what will go on our board, and will have met
with Ms. Gosselin to get her input on how to connect my real world application and
central question.
Discuss how you employed each of the core skills this week.
Each journal entry should be dated and titled based upon the part of
the process in which you are currently working.
The first entry each week should address what you anticipate for the
week including:
o What you plan to accomplish by the end of the week
o Your needs, including time, space, materials, and personal
contacts
o Any obstacles you anticipate
The Journal of Progress will be used in steps 4-8 of the Capstone Timeline.
Starting with Step 4 and ending with Step 8, you must send your advisor
your journal entries once a month on the date that the step is due. You will
compile all of these entries into your capstone portfolio. This will be
displayed when you present at the capstone fair and will be passed into your
advisor along with your reflection paper at the end of the project.
On the next page, we have included a sample journal progress entry. You
should plan to follow this format.
Sample journal of progress entry:
Journal of Progress
Current step: 7
Date: 12/14/16
Start of Week:
Place a check next to the corresponding date. Choose only one. You must do an
entry 2 times a month, due on homeroom days when steps are due.
By the end of the week, I will have Step 7 and both journals of progress will be
completed. I have had my meeting with Ms. Gosselin, and now have the information
I need to push forward.
What are your needs, including time, space, materials, and personal contacts?
I needed to put aside time to meet with both Ms. Gosselin and Aoife to discuss our
tri-fold board and go over our real world application.
What obstacles do you anticipate and how can you overcome these obstacles?
The only obstacles this week are that I am very busy, so I need to make sure I leave
time for myself to get my work done and collaborate with Aoife.
Ms. Gosselin helped me connect my real world application with my central working
question which will prove to be vital.
End of Week
Date: __________________________________
Summarize your progress for the week here:
I was successful in meeting with Ms. Gosselin for advice, and Aoife and I have begun
preparations on our tri-fold board.
Discuss how you employed each of the core skills this week.
Patrick Sullivan
Capstone
Ms. Gosselin
26 September 2016
First 5 Annotated Bibliographies
Inge, Sophie. French Recycling Rates Slammed as Disastrous. The Local France. The Local
This article is very relevant to what I am trying to achieve because it highlights how
France is not doing well when it comes to recycling. Unlike their European neighbors,
France only recycles approximately 23% of household waste, a statistic far below the
average. According to the article, they are going to easily miss the new European hopeful
standard of achieving every country in Europe to be at 50% by 2020 and 70% by 2030.
Labeled as disastrous, waste disposal companies seem to be at blame according to the
public as they feel recycling is not clear. More than half of the countrymen who took a
survey said they do not know the difference between the green dot logo and the actual
recycling three arrows. The Triman Logo seems to be the popular logo choice to get
France back on track.
Recycling Basics. EPA. Environmental Protection Agency, 07 Apr. 2016. Web. 24 Sept. 2016.
In this informational page, the Environmental Protection Agency lists out reasons why
recycling is useful and why we should all partake. This source will be the backbone for a
survey Aoife and I create most likely. By recycling, we reduce the amount of waste sent
to landfills, conserve natural resources, prevents pollution, collect new raw materials, and
save energy to begin with. The EPA also covers how recycling is simple, efficient, and
not time consuming by showing the three steps to recycling. Collecting and processing
leads into manufacturing which finishes in purchasing products made from recycled
goods, which benefits everyone. A continuous circle that only leads to improvement.
The Effects of Nutrient Pollution: Environment. EPA. Environmental Protection Agency, 27
This article published by the Environmental Protection Agency speaks about the effects
of nutrient pollution, which will contribute to my capstone by being a good contrast to
my real world application on the benefits of recycling and elimination of pollution from
an area. Nutrient pollution can contribute directly to the failure of aquatic ecosystems and
effect algae underwater. This creates aquatic dead zones, which are horrible for our
ecosystems. Acid rain affecting water, and air pollution contributing to ozone pollution
makes it much worse for our environment, and the purpose of the article clearly is to
improve the environment by making the public aware they are the ones destroying the
earth.
The Italian Mode: How Italy Leads the Way in Europe in Separate Waste Collection Systems.
Recycling & Waste World. MA Business Ltd, 19 June 2014. Web. 24 Sept. 2016.
This article is going to aid me in my comparison between the ways foreign countries and
the United States recycle, and which European countries are better at recycling and
leading the way for Europe. In this article, Italy is highlighted as the marquee leader in
recycling, hosting events and coloring their bins for distinct recyclables such as bottles,
plastics, and papers. An event in Milan was hosted where questions were asked and
discussions commenced in an effort to improve the world. Their style is arguably the best
in the world right now.
Tyson. Recycling in Spain, Spanish Culture. Spanish Unlimited. Internet Educational Services,
This article by Tyson is helpful to me for capstone because I have corresponding pictures
that go along with what he says in the article, making my PowerPoint presentation is
more reputable. In Spain, no matter the size of the city, the country is taking an initiative
by introducing colored recycling bins for different materials to Europe. Blue bins are
specifically for cardboard and paper, marked also with a grey stripe. The green bins with
a small opening and a smiling bottle are for bottles only. The yellow barrels are for tin
cans, although this color picks up the most waste statistically because people mistakenly
put CDs in it. Lastly, orange bins are for recycling used cooking oil. These barrels are less
seen, but are of massive importance as cooking oil damages the environment.
Patrick Sullivan
Ms. Gosselin
Capstone
24 October 2016
Step 5 Annotated Bibliographies
Bryant, Jessamy. What Will Happen If We Dont Recycle? Recycling. Weebly, 22 Oct. 2014.
Web. 21 Oct. 2016.
In a compact few paragraphs, Ms. Bryant uses her sources to describe what would happen
to our environment if everyone stopped recycling, and if all of our progress was stopped.
She stresses to everyone how important the practice of recycling is, because it leaves
more resources behind for future generations to use. Sustainability is stresses in her
response, and references a woman by the name of Saahithi who reverses the conversation
from what will happen to what is already happening, by expressing her unhappiness
about incineration. This source is very helpful to me because it can be used almost as
complexity when explaining recyclings effect on our environment, or simply as another
supporting piece of evidence from a different perspective.
Carson, Amy. How Does Recycling Affect The Environment? Positives and Negatives. Bright
Hub. Ed. Laurie Patsalides. N.p., 08 July 2010. Web. 21 Oct. 2016.
In this article, Amy Carson, assisted by Laurie Patsalides, goes the distance in describing
what recycling does, what it is used for, and how we can do it in an effective and efficient
way. She goes into how recycling reduces pollution, saves money, and improves the soil,
hoping that these valid points will encourage those who do not recycle currently. For
negatives, debris from the work can be harmful, but for the most part, recycling is a very
important routine humans should get in the swing of. This article is useful to me because
I can link it to how I am cleaning the environment in the flag football area, and
contributing to lengthening the earths life.
Citron-Fink, Ronnie. 5 Reasons Why People Dont Recycle and 5 Reasons They Should.
Care2 Healthy Living. Care2.com, 04 Aug. 2011. Web. 21 Oct. 2016.
Citron-Finks article does a great job of being concise and to the point when describing
the main factors that determine why certain people do not recycle. She also explores why
humans should study to prolong the earths lifetime. As far as why people do not recycle,
answers such as, Recycling is inconvenient, or Recycling doesnt make a difference,
so why do it? This highlights the ignorance of the everyday man, and how this opinion
and attitude desperately needs to be educated to the earth can live longer and to its
potential. If these people knew how much energy is saved, wildlife is protected, and
athmosphere is withheld, I hope the common man would recycle, which is the goal. This
article is helpful when I will contrast these findings with my interviews with the opinions
on recycling from foreign countries.
Delfin, Marty. Recycling Woes. Iberosphere. N.p., 16 Mar. 2011. Web. 21 Oct. 2016.
A quick article, Marty Delfin speaks to how Spain really needs to step it up as a whole
country, in comparison to recycling powerhouse Germany, in terms or their recycling
productivity. In 2009, Spain has only recycled 15% of their garbage, and 52% of Spains
garbage has been dumped in a landfill. This article is helpful to me because since Spain
has made great advancements over the last few years in recycling, this article provides
great contrast between their old and new states.
Painter, Sally. Why Do People Choose To Recycle? LoveToKnow. N.p., 26 Dec. 2010. Web. 21
Oct. 2016
In this article, Painter summarizes the benefits to recycling through common statistical
evidence. She begins by stating all kinds of people have motives for recycling, whether
its leaving their footprint on earth, or being economically smart, as recycling saves
everyone money. Sally highlights that the general populations main motives for
recycling are deforestation, a decrease in their everyday costs, and garden recycling.
Lastly, she states that recycling should be definitely incorporated into everyones life, as
it not only saves you money and makes your living conditions better, but it sets up a
bright future for your family. This article is helpful to me because it helps answer a part
of my central question in peoples motives and incentives for recycling.
Patrick Sullivan
Capstone
Ms. Gosselin
27 November 2016
Annotated Bibliographies 10-15
Improving Recycling Markets. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 53.3 (2007).
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD for short,
released a statement article explaining that from January 2007 on, all OECD governments
will treat recycling with a higher importance to themselves. Knowing and understanding
that growing societies result in more waste collected, they are setting recycling targets for
companies to follow so that they are making their contribution to society. By publicly
identifying past mistakes made with recycling, theyre setting out specifically to improve
upon those areas. They realize that recycling paper, for example, not only saves the
amount of trees we are cutting down, but it also reduces energy needed to make paper
since it already has the raw materials it needs. This article covers several key questions,
such as Can consumers be persuaded to buy products manufactured from recycled
waste? or How can recycling markets be made more efficient?
Yau, Yung. Domestic Waste Recycling, Collective Action, and Economic Incentive: The Case in
Hong Kong. National Center for Biotechnology Information. U.S. National Library of
While this article focuses on recycling in Hong Kong, a foreign nation, it can used as
proof to show that incentives in recycling will result in a better environment, clearly due
to more people recycling as a unit. Proven throughout analysis and two case studies,
monetary incentives work well in both environments. With all variables consistent with
past weeks, the weight of recyclables turned in by the average household increased. This
article is quite useful in that in zones in on what life would be like in the United States if
an incentive was offered for people to recycle, saving the earth.
Halvorsen, Bente. Effects of Norms and Policy Incentives on Household Recycling: An
Halvorsen composed a 20 page article comparison of countries and their recycling habits
and if they work or not. Household recycling, for the most part, is voluntary work. The
article describes the differences in factors affecting household recycling activities across
10 countries. In the article, Halvorsen finds that recycling is most effective when the
person believes it is good for the environment and that it is a duty, not an option.
Increasing the supply of recycling materials and door-to-door pickup of recyclables are
the two most popular ways to improve recycling. It is also noted that monetary incentives
dont hurt either.
Recycling Incentive Program. RecyclePerks. InkThemes, n.d. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.