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The Shake N' Stack plays a vital role at R L Turner High School to recycle milk cartons, water bottles, plastic ware, and especially the Styrofoam Trays. During our design process we were thinking of the environment and how we can help it. At first we were thinking of how to make a project for METSA (MATH ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY SCIENCE ACADEMY) and help it's community out but everyone has done that already. We were willing to do something big something that would change the district. So we came up with the idea of recycle, but recycle what, is the major question? After meeting with Victor Melton, the Environmental Systems Expert in the Facilities Building in the ​
CFB-ISD district our previous mentor for our internship job. We used what we have recently learned and by setting a goal to inform the entire school of R L Turner about how they impact the earth by throwing out styrofoam trays. One way of informing the public was to create morning announcements and a video which will be provided below. We were thinking of a design and Mr. Melton told me about these old plastic tray stacker, so we used them. Then we Called the "Shake N' Stack".​
The goal for our Project is to impact R. L. Turner. The project involves creating an apparatus to recycle the Styrofoam plates that are thrown away every day during lunch. Every single one of those plates is placed into landfills. These Styrofoam plates could be used for much greater purposes such as rocket fuel, oil, or some other alternative. The Shake and Stack will solve that problem. The process will be; Step 1: Shake food off tray into a nearby trash can when student is done with lunch; Step 2 Stack it.​
The result would be a rectangular design with aluminum lining on the inside to be easily cleaned. The Shake and Stack will contain some kind of mechanism that allows the plates to slide down and easily be taken out to be recycled. This will save money for the school, the number of trash bags that are thrown out each day and amount of work for the custodians.​
The construction part, design and prep work should take about 7 to 9 weeks, after that what will need to happen is making the school aware of our new recycling ideas. Our goal as we said before is to get all lunch trays recycled instead of placed in landfills. Overall it should take us about 13 to 14 weeks to have results of the success of our project.​
For the project we have Mr. Victor Melton an Environmentalist for CFBISD to help guide us through the project. Our Customer is Mr. Wisner, the Principal of METSA. Other than the two listed above that will be affected will be the students the rest of the school and our community if our project is successful. Our project will be successful if the students adapt to their better habits of recycling the lunch trays. As that will be the hardest part.​
If any maintenance is performed it will be keeping the shake and stack clean after each day of use. Other than that there shouldn’t be any need for any type of other maintenance that needs to be done. More will be added as project progresses​
​LAUNCH DAY: APRIL 22, 2013​
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