Thursday, July 3, 2008
These are some areas where our school needs to work on...lack of recycling bins.
As you can see, the recycling bin is overloaded with cans. This is due to an insufficient number of recycling bins in the school. There are only two can recycling bins currenty in the school and they are both in the canteen. Therefore, not only should we increase the number but we should also spread them across the school.
There should also be recycling bins for cardboard pieces such as these as when canteen stalls, especially the snack stall, receive new stock, they come in boxes like these. Without recycling bins, these precious cardboards will be thrown away and tress would have been killed unnecessarily. Therefore, a large cardboard recycling bin should be built behind the canteen for canteen vendors to throw away the cardboards.
Finally, with these two photos, we would like to appeal to the school population to please do your part by disposing of litter properly. Tissue paper can be thrown away into the dustbin RIGHT BELOW. As for such loose pieces of [paper like in the first photo, they can be disposed of in the paper recylcing bins in the canteen or at the first level of the Senior block, where the sec 2 classes are. I believe there is also one at the SR block foyer.
Thank you to the school population and everyone for taking the time to read these suggestions.
Environmentalist Blogged:4:54 PM
THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND AN INTRODUCTION
NAMES: Nathan Tang (leader), Gregory Wong, Jonathan Ng, Daryl Cheng
We are a group of pupils from Raffles Institution class 2H and as part of our Research education project this year, 2008, we are tasked with spreading the message of saving the environment. This is one of the ways which we will help to promote the cause. We hope through reading the posts on this blog and through taking the time to visit the links we have put up, everyone will ultimately do their part to save the environment. Auspicium Melioris Aevi. Hope of a better age.
"We will face a string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with the underlying causes of global warming." -Al Gore
"We have to press on to minimize waste and maximize recycling, as part of an environmentally sustainable solution to the problem of solid waste disposal." - Assoc Prof Simon Tay, Chairman Of National Environment Agency
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