PROJECTWEST

Makayla Gasper who is currently a sophomore at Wentworth Institute of Technology, created ProjectWest to focus on improving her high-school's carbon footprint. Makayla believes that if the people's culture cares about decreasing our impact on the earth, we are more likely to do so in our own lives outside of institutions. Her main goal was to create green-habits across the whole building impacting the way that the school uses their power, produces their power, handles waste, and handles the way that environmentalism is perceived among the general student body created by the administration. Rally with West.

West covers the efforts of Makayla Gasper and other West Delaware students. Currently, West features NOTRASH. NOTRASH is a recycling and compost initiative that aims to implement opportunities that provide a way to change the culture students are brought up in. Although this project is currently at a standstill at West Delaware, a blueprint remains from this project which can be reviewed in order to help others looking to be implement change.

Materials are here to be reviewed and shifted to fit your needs and contacts are presented to provide guidance.

What’s Makayla Working On?

November 18, Makayla sat down with Tim Felderman, Gary Funk, and Kim Sperflslage to discuss the research that she did to answer their questions from the last meeting. This helped choose which in-vessel composter West Delaware was to benefit most from as well as develop even more specific questions about that one composter.
Project Composite
Continuing to be a resource for schools looking to compost