Urban Environmental Quality and Human Health: Conceiving a Sustainable Future

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 08.07.06

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Objectives
  2. Introduction
  3. Family History
  4. Conception
  5. Birth: the primordial ooze to the chemistry of bottle life
  6. Adolescence: or the formation of the physical character of the bottle 10
  7. Adulthood: Or the working life of a bottle
  8. Seniority: or the many reasons not to reuse a bottle
  9. Death and Afterlife: Recycling?
  10. Resources
  11. Appendix: New Haven Science Standards
  12. End Notes

Life Cycle Analysis of an Ordinary Plastic Water Bottle

Jennifer B. Esty

Published September 2008

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End Notes

1. Imhoff , Paper or plastic

2. http://fossil.energy.gov/education/energylessons/coal/gen_howformed.html

3. ATSDR Toxicological Profile of Ethylene Glycol

4. Strong, Plastics, 5

5. Strong, Plastics, 75

6. Strong, Plastics, 75

7. Strong, Plastics, ch 7 and 8

8. Dimethyl phthalate (DMP), Diethyl phthalate (DEP), Dibutyl phthalate (DBP), and Dioctyl phthalate (DOP) are also used in PET. Bošnir, et al.

9. The student version of the experiment may be found here: http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/word_docs/curriculum/science/strand2studentlaboratorymaterials.doc. The teacher version of the lab may be found here: http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/word_docs/curriculum/science/strand2teacherlaboratorymaterials.doc

10. The information in this section comes predominantly from Plastics, Chapters 11, 12 and 13.

11. Information in this diagram came from Plastics.

12. New Jersey Report on Bottled water, pg 12

13. ATSDR Toxological profile for DEHP, Chapter 1, page 4

14. HR 4040 from the 101st congress. As of this writing this bill, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, is not yet law.

15. The student version of this activity may be found here: http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/word_docs/curriculum/science/strand2stspolymerstudentmaterials.doc. The teacher version of the lab is here: http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/word_docs/curriculum/science/strand2stspolymerteachermaterials.doc

16. Hurd 1997

17. Hurd 1997, 4

18. Hurd 1997, 10-15

19. Hurd 1997, 31-40

20. Hurd 1997, 17-21

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