Nelspruit Plaza Procedure

Introduction This research task is going to focus on land pollution and the factors that influence the pollution. The aim is to see whether The Nelspruit Plaza is polluted as opposed to the Crossings centre. Both of these areas are major centres where people come on a daily basis to either shop, work and/even find means of public transportation. The Nelspruit Plaza has a taxi rank and multiple informal businesses i.e. venders all around, the Plaza also has a number of building centres, the Plaza is considered to be an under-developed area where as the Crossings centre is a developing area. These area are subject to land pollution, the Plaza has a history of pollution because of the number of people as well as the lack of public bins which make the area negatively impacted, the

Find second area parallel to location 1 to compare the two areas, use this second area as your control variable and label as location 2.

Step2

Stand at a point at location 1 mark this point X on the sides of the road location walk a hundred steps along the length (longest side) of location 1 and 74 steps along width (the shortest side) of location1. Mark X at this point as well.

Step 3

Repeat these two steps twice to form a rectangular shape.

Step 4

Wear the gloves and collect any rubbish you see from points X to X in any direction and put into the small bin. If bin gets full then put into the black refuse bag.

Step 5

Mark the bin/refuse bag 1.

Step 6

Repeat steps 1-5 at location 2.

Step 7

Take your data home and weigh it, then fill your results in a table.

Step 8

Repeat step 4, 5, 6 and 7 for another four days.

P3

Results

A table to show waste collected over a period of time at different locations.

Days Location 1 rubbish weight (grams) Location 2 rubbish weight (grams)

1 403 28

2 250