As I have been looking around for the past couple of days I have realized some issues that must be acted upon. One of the top issues have I noticed is that the Solomon Pond Mall does not offer recycling as a form of waste management. The mall produces thousands of pounds of trash in a day in the food court and whether the object is recyclable or not, it is thrown in mainstream trash. Although a physical object would not come out of this project, the installation of recycling in a producer of waste this big would have a huge impact on many different areas of environmental protection and overall cleanliness. Another problem that caught my attention was the lack of environmental classes and involvement in public schools. It seems to me that schools are focusing on advancements in technology and are slowly forgetting about the more natural sides of science. Although technology is a vital part in our lives and it is important in strengthening this topic, I would like to see more inclusion of environmental topics found in a limited selection of electives such as Environmental Science. The last issue that I came up with was how much the cold weather affects the battery life of a phone. Now that it is winter, many phones start to die way faster than they would any season. The drainage of battery that fast is nothing but annoying and a nuisance. I thought, maybe I could invent a case that has the capability of controlling a healthy temperature around the phone so that the cold has little to no affect of the battery life.
I am still trying to choose between whether to act upon the lack of recycling at Solomon Pond Mall or my idea of a temperature controlling phone case. Installing recycling at the mall would strongly benefit the environment but the phone case idea would be beneficial to not only technical standards, but personal too. Over the next week I will come to a decision but at the moment I am not sure.
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