Brichta BinsBrichta Bins

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Anthony Guillen & Leonardo Anthony Guillen & Leonardo FrancoFranco

IntroductionsIntroductions

What is Brichta Bins?What is Brichta Bins?

• Recycling Recycling project project

– People don’t People don’t recycle at recycle at parks.parks.

– Lots of water Lots of water bottles on the bottles on the ground.ground.

Looking for a solution…Looking for a solution…

• What if we would What if we would recycle at parks?recycle at parks?

• Could that be Could that be done?done?

• We turned our idea We turned our idea turned into a turned into a dream.dream.

Principal ApprovalPrincipal ApprovalSabrina Cruz Sabrina Cruz

Principal Brichta ElementaryPrincipal Brichta Elementary

City and Neighborhood PartnershipCity and Neighborhood PartnershipDiana Rhodes and Yvonne Merrill helped us start this Diana Rhodes and Yvonne Merrill helped us start this project from the beginning.project from the beginning.

Putting out our Bins and our Putting out our Bins and our scheduleschedule• We talked to park We talked to park

staff Rick Garcia, staff Rick Garcia, Freddy Lopez and Freddy Lopez and Oscar Escobar. They Oscar Escobar. They agreed to help us.agreed to help us.

• We worked out a We worked out a schedule and the schedule and the locations for the locations for the bins.bins.

• We designed We designed posters to let posters to let people know what people know what to put in the bins. to put in the bins.

Counting the Recyclables Counting the Recyclables

• We manage three We manage three bins at Joaquin bins at Joaquin Murrieta ParkMurrieta Park

• Every Wednesday, Every Wednesday, we walk to the we walk to the park to collect and park to collect and count the items in count the items in our bins. our bins.

Google Earth image of Joaquin Murrieta Park. Google Earth image of Joaquin Murrieta Park. Placemarks show Bin A, B and C locations. Placemarks show Bin A, B and C locations.

Behavior Over Time GraphBehavior Over Time GraphBin ABin A

BOTG Bin B BOTG Bin B

Spike in recyclables / Spike Spike in recyclables / Spike in trash.in trash.

Bin BRecyclables

Bin A Trash

BOTG Bin CBOTG Bin C

BOTGBOTGRecyclable Totals Vs. Trash Recyclable Totals Vs. Trash

TotalsTotals

Averages of Bin A, B, & CAverages of Bin A, B, & C

Meeting!!!Meeting!!!

Freddy Rick Oscar

Future Plans…Future Plans…

• Brichta Elementary will officially adopt Brichta Elementary will officially adopt Joaquin Murrieta park.Joaquin Murrieta park.

• Upcoming 4Upcoming 4thth grade classes can be trained grade classes can be trained to manage the park over the summer. to manage the park over the summer.

• Invite other schools to learn about project Invite other schools to learn about project based learning by following our model.based learning by following our model.

• Have a city wide competition to see which Have a city wide competition to see which school has the best recyclable to trash school has the best recyclable to trash ratio. ratio.

• We would also like to place more bins at We would also like to place more bins at the parkthe park

Future Plans…Future Plans…

Instead of small bins…Instead of small bins… Can we get large ones?Can we get large ones?

Future plans….Future plans….

Instead of using the school’s Instead of using the school’s commercial bin...commercial bin...

Could we get one placed at Could we get one placed at the park?the park?

Thank you!Thank you!