Helping To Conserve

A Presentation by Andrew Klein, Bethany Henning

and Reece Wynn

What does it mean to

conserve energy? Since
energy cannot be
destroyed, it can be
altered from one form
to another. By
conserving energy we
can help our planet and
save money.

The problem
Here at Sabino and
other TUSD schools,
we are wasting large
amounts of money
and resources per
year due to leaky
faucets, electrical
energy wasted from
computers, room
temperature, etc.

Lets Break It Down

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Educate

Take Action

Thrive

Generation undereducated
Provide visual aids
Website access
Knowledge through
presentations

Fix issues
Replace leaky
faucets
Turn off
monitors
Turn off lights
Etc.

Improve things in
our schools
Conserve
energy/resources

Recycling

Convert (waste) into reusable material

Why now?

Americans
only recycle
5% of all
plastics
produced in
our country.

Looking at the issue within Sabino:

1. No awareness of recycling

2. Classrooms without bins

From Paper to Plastic...

Forests cut at 100

acres/minute
One tree=700 paper
bags
consumed in
less than an
hour

About 250,000
plastic bottles
dumped/hour
Decomposition=
700 years
Dumped
elsewhere like
oceans
kills wildlife

Glass= 100%
decomposable
ends up in
landfills

 Paper
About avg. 2000 sheets of paper/day in schools
2000X365 = 360,000 / year
sheet roughly 5 cents
$180,000/ year
Solution?
Transferring to laptops OR
Reusing
Plastic/glass
Desperately needs to be recycled!
Plastic is one of top resources
Ends up in landfills, kills up to 1 mill oceanic
species/year
undegradable

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an
How c

e?

Student
Initiative
Record data
used and unused bins
Started collecting
25 bins/week

Results from
Initiative:

Recycling bins

Solution

Visual Aids
Background knowledge
Promotion
Leadership

Leaky
Leaky Faucets
Faucets

Collecting Data

Over the course

of 11 weeks,
students
collected data.
Work orders put
in place for
broken faucets

 According to TUSD records

763818.611 liters used/school year
If leaky faucets drip 3 times sec/ 24 hours, 28,800 drops of water wasted
in all
1 drop= liter
7.2 liters wasted every day or 2 gal
Over a 7 day span, about 50.4 liters wasted
Nov. 13-20 2015 was most wasteful week recorded
approx. 50 L
If the cycle was hypothetically over a full school year, 1296 L would be
wasted

Where We Are Headed

80-100 gallons water/day
95% goes down drain
gallon washing
hands
washing machine
20-40 gallons
shower 2-5
gallons/minute
With the amt lost over
the course of a school
year, hands could be
washed 685 times

Water costs electricity to transport

76-95 gallons are wasted
Peak water
Water based sales
The year 2020
Corporations thinking about control
Price of water increasing
Consider improvements or water conservation

Reminders

Weekly checkups
Work orders

What it would save us

Solution

22,284 gallons/day in school

748 gal/ CCF
Abt. 30 CCF/day
900 CCF/month
AZ rate is $0.60/ CCF +
$0.08/CCF
Leaky faucet=7.2L or 2 gal a day
Cutting down CCF by
replacing one leaky
faucet would save $612

Electricity

Electricity gives a wide variety of well-known

effects, such as lightning, computer power,
appliance usage, etc.

43% of
electricity is
used for
heating,
cooling and

Heating and Cooling

Control of room temperatures can equal savings
At Sabino, keeping thermostat at 75+ opening up windows when
needed = savings of up to $1,580 a school year

Computer Monitors
Behavior monitored on the first week of testing
307 out of 352 left on
Student action
Sticky-notes
Candy
Result: 204 out of 352

Reminders in computer
labs/classrooms

Solutions

E-mail teachers to
promote
Open windows for
heat
Less use of
thermostats

What do younger kids have to say about these

issues?

Getting
WhyOur
Us?Youth
Involved

Thank You For Listening

Dont Forget To Conserve!

Check out our website for more information

http://sabinoconservationcampaign.weebly.com/