Blog Post Week 9

What this week and last week consist of is putting 0.5 (g) of each plastic (SPI 1-7) in containers that contain 20 (g) of sediment in them. We will be running a total of 35 samples, meaning each SPI will contain 5 samples that will be run through the funnel. To create a method to extract plastic from the sediment. I used a small scale to measure out the 20 (g) of sediment, not all the samples contained exactly 20 (g), some samples contained an approximate measure of 20.1 (g) - 20.9 (g). I made a huge mistake of running 1.5 (g) of SPI 3 into one whole container containing the 20 (g) of sediment instead of 0.5 (g), which caused to have less plastic sample of SPI 3, I do still have shredded plastic left but perhaps not enough for 5 samples. I also don’t have enough of SPI 2. Which means I will have to do a lot more shredding of plastic throughout this week. Also when I was scaling the the 0.5 (g) of plastic, I used two different types of scales which could of perhaps messed up the amount of plastic that each sample contained. I hope to finish with at least one sample that has its complete 5 containers with plastic and sediment to run it through the funnel and continue through the extracting of plastic sediment.