China no longer accepting plastics from other countries

The world has a big problem. China announced that they will no longer be accepting plastics for recycling. Since January 2018, China had stopped accepting from other countries. This is because it causes them contamination problems. Unfortunately, this will have a great impact on countries who use to give their recycling to China because no one will accept their plastic.

China stopped accepting plastics. Significantly, the plastic that China received from other countries has not been properly cleaned or mixed with unrecyclable material. For this reason, China announces “For the protection of the environment and people’s health” and therefore stopped accepting plastics because of contamination problems. This is important because people need to know what really happens to our plastic and who is being affected by our actions and now NZ has to take responsibility for our plastics.

China not accepting plastic has been a massive problem to our country and others who used to give their plastics to China. Unfortunately, stockpiles of recycling have been stuck at Huntly MetroWaste. At one point, there was 400tonnes of plastic. Also in New Zealand, 150 tonnes of plastic ignited and burned down at the Smart Environmental recycling plant near Thames. If we don’t stop using single-use plastic we will have to deal with 111MT of additional plastics by 2030. This is significantly important to know because we have to be aware of the consequences of single-use plastics.

We need to stop using single-use plastic bags now or else we will be in deep problems in the future. This is because China has stopped accepting plastics from anyone. Why? Because of the contamination problems that are caused by plastics. This can also happen to us if we don’t put a stop on single-use plastic bags. But how? Wherelse are we going to put them after use? Recycling bin right. But do they really get recycled? Currently, there are tons of plastic stuck in our waste stations and the pile just keeps adding up which will eventually lead to contamination problems.

Mastes

Mastes tribe/Jaguar people are indigenous people that live along the Javari River in the remote area of the Amazon forest. They lived in small villages over the Amazon forest.  Interestingly, they use a “slash and burn” technique which releases nutrients into the soil. Their life has changed following contact from outsiders and missionaries encouraging assimilation into the modern culture. For this reason, many young Mastes have lost interest in their tribe. Big cities pulls younger Mastes away from their traditions and adapt to the modern lifestyle

Science dicovery (29/11/18)

What do we want to achieve today? Our plan for today is to make our final product. We are both going to do it cause it's a team job and we have a lot of flavours planned.

FINAL RESULT:
We made three Ice cream flavours. The first one was apple flavour. It was really good but it could have been better if we peeled the skin off before crushing it. The Oreo flavour was the best flavour. People liked it a lot. I think it was good as well but it was a little bit too sweet. We shouldn't have added extra sugar. Our last flavour was terrible. We added too many berries so we just threw it out.

Science Discovery

What we achieved today? We now know what we flavour we want to recreate our ice cream. We also started our presentation

PASSION PROJECTS (SCIENCE DICOVERY)

Our aim was to make different flavours of ice cream using dry ice and serve them in chocolate bowls.

On our first day of experiments (19/11/18), we tried making chocolate bowls out of Cadbury chocolate. On our first attempt, we made five chocolate bowls but only two were successful because they were hard to get off the ballon. On our second attempt, we put oil on our ballons hoping that it will not stick to the ballon as hard. That attempt was a fail because it wasn't fully covered in chocolate. Eventually, we learned from our mistakes and used Dark chocolate we turned out really good and instead of using normal balloons we used water balloons.

Ice cream.
It was our first attempt on making Ice cream and I think it tuned out really well. We had two flavours one was supposed to be sprite but it tasted like milk with a bit of lemon. On our second flavour, we put chocolate chips which turned out to be the best flavour out if the two.

DISCOVERY- PASSION PROJECTS 22/11/18

We made Ice cream and we put it inside a chocolate bowl. We had 2 flavours of Ice cream. One was supposed to taste like sprite but it ended up tasting like milk but it still tasted good. The second flavour we put chocolate chips in the ice cream mix and it was the best one out of the two. 

We made our chocolate bowls with 70% dark chocolate. We melted the chocolate and we dipped a ballon halfway in the melted chocolate and freeze them.

Earthquake proof house

Was it successful? Why/Why not? NO, because my teammates put a stick platform under the base of our house which made it slippery.

What do architects to make super tall buildings safe? Thicker walls and a lot of reinforcement. They put a make sure they put a strong foundation to keep the building from swaying because of strong winds.



 Empire State Building height: 373m, 443m to tip. The American Society of Civil Engineers named the Empire State Building one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.