Senior Project Ideas

Going over the different topics that we went over in Environmental Science on Friday opened my eyes to the different topics that I could possibly base my senior project on.

Water

During the class discussion on water we discussed how limited water is in San Diego, considering we are in a water crisis, the discussion then floated to the different ways that people could save water. The most interesting that I found was the one where you take a half gallon milk container and fill it up with water and then put the jug in the toilet tank and which the jug then displaces the water. I thought that this was the most interesting one cause if you think about it half a gallon of water less each time adds up to a lot of water that your saving, possibly even 10 gallons a day. The weirdest one that I found was the "If its yellow let it mellow". I found this one the nastiest and one that I wouldn't even give a chance too. Hearing all the different ways that people save water got me really interested to want to learn more ways to save water. I know how Margaret doesn't want any boring documentaries this year but I think that I would want to possibly do a video on interviewing different people and finding out how they save water in there own way.

Waste

This was the topic that we didn't get to discuss in class due to the lack of time we had. But I was on the waste team and I found out some interesting facts from the landfill here in San Diego. What I got from "Miramar Landfill | Environmental Services ." were facts about our only active landfill here in San Diego, which is the Miramar Landfill. The most interesting ones I found was that recycling is what’s extending the life of the landfill and two-Thirds of our waste in San Diego can be recycled. These two I found the most interesting because they bought two more questions after I read them. One being

• Where does all the trash go when the landfill reaches its capacity?
• Recycling is extending the life of our landfills to what extent though?

So just overall researching about waste made me more interested in my original idea that I had for my senior project. The original idea was to make a song using the trash that we found kind of like STOMP but not necessarily with just trash can. The only problem that with this idea is that there's not enough environmental science being incorporated into this idea. So what I was thinking was maybe doing a video along with it that included facts that about recycling, the Miramar landfill, etc. So the idea could possibly be a music video.