2 Hot 2 Handle

Our Story

We made a plastic water bottle blob to demonstrate how many plastic bottles HTH uses within a few days. It is a jellyfish with string lights going through it. With this jellyfish, we displayed facts about plastic consumption and where that plastic eventually ends up. We wanted to get new reusable plastic bottles for each student at our school, but that didn't work out.

Our Solution

Our project brought awareness to water bottle pollution and provided reusable bottles to people without them to allow for hydration while reducing pollution in our schools. We put out a survey and gathered responses to see how many water bottles we would need. We assessed the results of the survey finding that there were several students lacking reusable bottles. We then emailed the PA (Parent Association) requesting that they fund our project. Their next meeting was a month out from when we asked. We used the downtime to create a sculpture to spread awareness for plastic waste. The month passed and our meeting arrived. The PA decided not to fund our project so we instead decided to focus completely on the sculpture. Even the sculpture came with its share of problems, however, and we struggled to bring the sculpture we were imagining into the real world. We had to change our sculpture design to fit the time restrictions we faced. Finally, as the project came to a close, we started work on a final element to add a little more substance to our project. We worked with the city to paint reminders on storm drains in Liberty Station telling people about the consequences of upstream pollution and dropping trash in storm drains. This project has shown us that ambition can lead to inaction. We overestimated our own abilities and had to constantly move the goalposts as it became obvious the final product wouldn’t be up to our expectations.