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What are the decomposition rates for different items? The items are styrofoam, aluminum foil, sun chips bag, regualar chips bag, apple, newspaper, cotton, orange.
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I believe the apple will decompose the most over the period of time. The weather has been mild at the end of this week.
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We went outside and found a specific place to dig 8" to 10". Then we buried the items and covered the hole back up with dirt so the items wouldn't fly out. After that we waited till 8 weeks went by.
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The materials and equipment we used for this project were shovels, a wooden stake, a super hammer, some marker tape, and rebar. We buried styrofoam, aluminum foil, Sun Chips bag, regualr chips bag, a apple, news paper, cotton, and a orange.
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Did you that 25 trillion styrofoam cups are thrown away every year? Pure orange rind oil, d-Limonene, is known to safelty break down your styrofoam.
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Weather is a major factor on how things grow, decompose, and many other ways. This week the weather was alittle cloudy with no precipitataion. The temperature for this week averaged about the mid 60's.
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The weather was partly cloudy with a little bit of precipitation. The temperature averaged at about the low 70s.
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Here is a way to reuse aluminum foil. You can wash the Aluminum Foil and reuse it.
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The weather has been up in the 80s and some 90s. It has been partly cloudy with no precipitation.
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You can reuse a chip bag by using it as a trash bag in your car.You could also reuse it by putting breakable things in the bag for transporting.
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The weather is warm with temperatures from 65-75 degrees. Somewhat cloudy with no precipitation.
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You can reuse a chip bag by making a shoulder bag, or a braclet. You can also reuse them by making them trash bag liners.
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Temperature was around mid 80s with few clouds. Their was no precipitation this week.
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You can reuse the peels of an apple by making a casserole.
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The weather for this week was pretty hot, with temperatures around 80-90 degrees. Not very cloudy and again no precipitation.
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You can reuse paper by making a book cover out of the paper.You can reuse paper by raping paper around breakables when you are moving.
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The weather has been cold and rainy. The temperature averages about 55 degrees. It has been very cloudy and we have had lots of rain.
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You can reuse cotton by making many different types of clothes. You can also reuse cotton by sewing many things.Also by making a blanket out of cotton.
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The weather is very hot temperatures average about 85 degrees. Partly cloudy with some precipitation.
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You can reuse orange peels by using the peels to make orange peel jam.You can also reuse the orange peels by putting the peels on your radiator and it will freshen your house.
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The apple decomposed a lot probably about 85%. The bad thing was that the apple stank like dog poop.
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The foil did not decompose if it did all it was maybe 5%.In the picture the foil looks decomposed but it really isn't.
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The paper decomposed a little but not a whole lot. It got really dirty though, but it probably decomposed 10%.
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The orange decomposed quite a bit, but not as much as the orange. It decomposed probably 80%.
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The regular chips bag decomposed very little.It decomposed probably about 6%.
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The cotton did not decompose at all. The cotton got really dirty in the ground though.
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The styrofoam decomposed probably about 23.24312%. It got split into pieces though.
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The sun chip bag decomposed somewhat probably about 41.287562%. It also got torn up.
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