Video Campaign for NYU trash sorting
For the video campaign, my group got together and decided to interview one of the manager from the Lujiazui property sanitation department. Before that, we were really just walking around campus filming some trashcans and what we have observed. What was interesting was the 7th floor of the AB but we decided not to include it in the video due to the flow of it. The 7th floor, also known as the science floor has many labs for biology, physics, chemistry and more. In those labs, they consist many chemicals and bio-hazardous things that needs to be disposed correctly. Therefore, in the lab, there is a bio-hazard waste bin that you don’t see anywhere else on campus. But the question is, what if students on other floors wants to throw out batteries or lightbulbs and the labs are locked? Where would students throw them? Some suggestions would be actually going down to the B2 and just sort it there because they have all the bins available and it would save the ayis some time to sort if you just threw it in the normal trash.
After walking around the campus for a bit, we decided to interview someone with real knowledge about trash waste on this campus. I actually knew exactly who to ask because of my previous project in another class so I suggested we go talk to the property management. We wrote down some questions like how much residual, recyclable, and wet waste does NYU Shanghai produce? Also, what are the ayis work time and schedule. We just wanted to create some hard facts that we can inform the community so we could cut down our waste as well as the ayis time of sorting our incorrectly sorted trash.
Below is our visual representations of the campaign:
Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gYw1JdQzpE
What we did in class/ ironing notes
In class on Wednesday 10/9, we learned how to use an iron to melt plastic bags. I teamed up with Ben and melted two plastics bags into one and created a little pouch.
We also took some notes for future reference when we use the iron for our project.
-4 layers of melting: 4 pass through with 160 degree celsius
-Lower the temperature next time (the temperature was a bit high and melted too much of the plastic)
-Always keep the iron moving then ironing instead of just placing it on the plastic (because it will melt too much)
-Even though the temperature setting was the same for the iron, the longer the iron was on, the hotter it was getting.
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