4.+Method

=**Experimental Procedure** =


 * 1.** Get your whole family involved! For the first week, place the dry garbage bags in the kitchen.And normal plastic bag in the bin for food. Your family will put all their garbage into these bags for the first week of the experiment.

3. Weight your food rubbish in the plastic rubbish bag every night and record down the weight ooof the food rubbish bag on a piece of paper (make sure you don't lose it).Leave the dry rubbish bag in the kitchen because you are going to weight it on Sunday.
 * 2.** Give each member of your family two gallon-sized (3.8 l) self-sealing plastic bags: one is for food, the other is for dry garbage, It's very important that your family members place ALL the garbage they would normally throw away outside the home (at work, school, etc.) in the bags. (This includes leftover lunch and soda bottles, but doesn't include tissues and toilet paper.) When you get home, collect their garbage and put it in the bigger bags. Wash out the smaller bags every night for them, and have them reuse the bags the next day. (Hey, it's the least you can do.)


 * 4.** After the week of garbage collecting, weigh yourself and record your weight. Then weigh yourself holding the dry garbage bag. Subtract the weight from this number. And that's how many kilograms of dry garbage your family produced. Add the weight of the food garbage you've weighted every night together.And add the dry garbage and the food garbage.together to find the total amount of garbage your family produces in one week.


 * 5.** Put on the latex gloves and go through the dry garbage with your family. Can you recycle most of your garbage? Devise a plan and implement it. (See the Take Action section for ideas.)


 * 6.** Continue to collect your family's food and dry garbage and weigh the dry garbage at the end of every week for three weeks. And food garbage every night for three weeks.