Building Bio-Reactors
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Building Bio-Reactors Goals To demonstrate the importance composting has on the environment and us through hands on experiments. To determine best methods of composting. [top] Objectives * Students will be able to describe the process of composting. * Students will be able to design and construct their own pop bottle bio-reactors. [top] Materials (per group) * 2-liter pop bottle * 750 g yogurt container * Styrofoam plate or tray * Nail for making holes * Duct tape or clear packaging tape * Wooden skewers * Insulation materials such as sheets of fibreglass or foam rubber, or Styrofoam * Fine-meshed screen to cover top of soda bottle and air holes in bottom half * Thermometer that will be long enough to reach down into the centre of the compost * Chopped vegetable scraps such as lettuce leaves, carrot or potato peelings, and apple cores, or garden wastes such as weeds or grass clippings * Bulking agent...


