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During this experiment, our group of volunteers was supposed to keep track of people throwing away recyclables. We had to make sure no one threw away recyclables and no one put trash in the recycling. We also had to give anyone who actually recycled anything a raffle ticket, and he/she has the possibilities to win something cool. This was a fun experiment because it was a relaxing thing to do during lunch, we just sat there eating and staring at the recycling bags we set up around the main are where people eat lunch. But very surprisingly there were almost no people who recycled. It was not because they were throwing things in the trash it was just that no one was disposing of their lunch around us, or maybe it was that people would eat lunch off campus. Only one or two people actually threw a bottle into the bins we set up. At one point a friend came over to me to chat with a glass bottle, and I enthusiastically was encouraging him to recycle it. He just looked at me funny and said he did not want to but I could, so I recycled it and gave a raffle ticket to myself. But while I was sitting there I was chatting with a junior or sophomore whose name I think was Michael, and he is one of the people who started this whole project. I thought it was very inspiring how much work he had put into these projects. He had been to many lunch recycle duty projects and is very invested in his work. He is even working on brining compost to Berkeley High School. The Green Academy at BHS is into creating an ecologically sound community and campus. When we were all gathered up in the beginning we talked about a competition between schools going on at the time and the most eco friendly would receive some sort of prize but I don’t know where we placed in that contest. Over all it this was a great experience to see how much people care for the health of our campus and community.