Hello it’s Jon, and I'm going to talk about what i did last Friday in preparation for the Water Fest. The group i was in we went on a little field trip to the Topeka Waste Management Facility and we learned about the way they manage the wastes and use the methane produced from the waste to make energy that can be distributed to Weststar Energy for electricity.
The way they do this is that they take the methane, suck it up through a hose, burn it then cool it , compress it, then filter it and burn it again in large engines. they have several engines that each put out enough energy to power seven-thousand homes each. This is i think a good way to recycle some of the waste that we produce.
This ties into the Water Festival because we are learning how the waste we produce effects the envirnment around us. Once we have learned about this, on the day of the Water Festival we will take this knowledge and teach it to younger children from different school district. We will teach them how it is importnat to use the three R's of waste- Reuse, Reduce, and RECYCLE. Doing this will help the kids become interested in what is going on around us and I hope that they will take the knowledge that they gain from the hands on activites that we do with them and put it to use.
Jon Blevins
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