Waste Decomposition: Lesson 4

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Waste Decomposition: Lesson 4 Glass bottles will never decompose or biodegrade…

Objectives Students will discover how long experts think it takes MSW to break down. Students will create a chart for MSW decomposition times. Students will review factors involved in MSW breakdown inside a landfill.

Nevada State Standards: Grades 9-12 E.12.C.4 Students know processes of obtaining using, and recycling of renewable and nonrenewable sources. E/S E.12.C.5 Students know soil, derived from weathered rocks and decomposed organic material, is found in layers. E/S N.12.A.1 Students know tables, charts, illustrations and graphs can be used in making arguments and claims in oral and written presentations. E/S N.23.A.2 Students know scientists maintain a permanent record of procedures, data, analyses, decisions, and understandings of scientific investigations. I/S

Vocabulary Decompose: to break down into small elements. Recycle: to break down an item for reuse in producing the same or another kind of item. Example: plastic bottle into a fleece jacket or back into a plastic bottle.

Vocabulary Reuse: using an item again and again so it will not end up in a landfill. Example: jelly jars used as glasses. Reduce: to produce less waste by consuming less items. The best way to reduce is to buy items with less packaging. Example: purchasing shampoo in bulk or bringing your own container. Biodegrade: to break down into small elements through the use of micro-organisms.

Decomposition

William Rathje’s: Garbage Project William Rathje is an archaeologist with the University of Arizona. He began a project in 1972 called “The Garbage Project”. He is the author of Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage

More Rathje! The following quote provides an example of how long our trash stays in landfills. The landfill used in the example is in Arizona…a climate very similar to Nevada. “Instead of garbage that was at most a few days old, researchers began dealing with garbage that was ten, twenty, thirty years old—sometimes even older” (page 113). Rathje described the headlines of some of the newspapers found from 1971, 1967, and 1952. Dated newspapers help with the purpose of dating the garbage deposits.

More Rathje! In one landfill, Rathje describes organic material from a landfill layer from the 1950’s: “Almost all the organic material remained readily identifiable: Pages from coloring books that were still clearly that, onion parings were onion parings, carrot tops were carrot tops. Grass clippings that might have been thrown away the day before yesterday spilled from bulky black lawn and leaf bags, still tied with twisted wire…Whole hot dogs have been found in the course of every excavation…” (page 114).

Why is decomposition so slow in a landfill? Landfills are designed to prevent decomposition. In order for most items to decompose, they need air and water. Every day 6 inches of soil is placed on the landfill. The layers of trash are then starved of air.

Why is decomposition so slow in a landfill? In order to prevent the production and movement of leachate, water is discouraged from entering the landfill. Because of these conditions called “dry tomb”, items in a landfill decompose at a much slower rate than they would in other conditions.

How long will it take these items to decompose?

How long do you think these items will take to decompose? Aluminum can Banana Cigarette butt Cotton rag Glass bottle Leather boot Paper bag Plastic 6-pack rings Plastic jug Rubber sole of leather boot Styrofoam cup Tin (steel) can Wool sock

Questions to Answer Why does it take so long for items to decompose in a landfill? Based on the information above, why does it make sense to reduce, reuse, and recycle? How can your table of information be used to make an argument about decomposition? Why would William Rathje have maintained a record of data for this particular scientific investigation?