The Dumpster Project Essay

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Each and everyday people look for a way to help the community and environment around them. It could either be picking up trash around the local park, or cleaning up destructed areas, it could even be simply turning off the lights after you exit a room. How much does one really need? How might this affect the environment? One professor at Huston-Tillotson University, Jeff Wilson, took it a step further to answer that question. Wilson constructed an experiment called ‘The Dumpster Project’. Wilson moved from a large home into a dumpster. When journalist James Hamblin heard about this project he wanted to share it with the world. Hamblin uses the technique of in depth examination and expression to show the environmental impact and inspiring …show more content…

One that he uses is “In the austin heat, the dumpster was getting up to 130 degrees fahrenheit during the day. On some nights it did not fall below the high 80s.” The living conditions for the professor were not ideal for a specimen such as us humans and a bit difficult to control in his case. This leads into the weather. Hamblin sets it up by structuring his example with a phone call he and Wilson had to talk about the dumpster. During the call the professor exclaims that “... It’s a downpour. I’ll be back in about a minute.” This is a prime example to how quick the weather could change. These challenges only encouraged the act of advancing the dumpster and how it worked. They soon installed an air conditioner for the heating and a sliding door for the roof. To advance even more, a look for a dome to catch rain water will soon be …show more content…

The position of ‘The Dumpster Project’ was taken and funded by a university. So in that case many students viewed it as it developed and many students were probably curious on how it all worked. Hamblin uses Wilson stating this whole project as an “educational initiative” allowing us to know of the significance it is to him as a professor and him personally. The project is also allowed to be used by others,Wilson “will stay with a friend, and students from the ecology-focused campus group, Green Is The New Black will get a night to stay in the dumpster” this allows students to have hands on educational experience with the project and to pull their own pros and consof the experiment. Hamblin states that the dumpster effects many other educational areas. He concludes that “There is a K-12 curriculum built around the dumpster experiment, and eventually the finished dumpster will be transported to schools for display” this allows not just the students from the university but a wide range of students around the area to learn about this

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