5 ideas of solution on Recycle
Monday, 28 April 2014 at10:46
Voucher Rebate
Voucher Rebate is to reward people when they recycle. The recycling
rate will be calculated and accumulate every end of the month. NTUC vouchers
will only be given to household that exceed certain rate of recycling.
Advantage:
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Encourage more people to recycle.
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Reward people that recycle more.
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Attractive way to promote recycle
Disadvantage:
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People only recycle when they are rewarded
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Difficult to keep track how much each
household recycle.
Trash Collecting Day
Trash Collecting Day is a system that
different types of waste materials will be collected every day. Providing
convenience to the residence. For example, every Monday trash collector will go
to each household to collect plastics waste for recycle. Tuesday will be
electronic and follow by the other days.
Advantage:
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Provide convenient
way for residence to recycle.
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Easier to sort the
trash
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Increase the rate
of recycling
Disadvantage:
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Some people might
find it difficult to follow the schedule for the trash collecting
Pay the Fine
Pay the fine, is to create a new law for
recycling. Every household are responsible to sort out their trash for recycle.
Household which do not sort out the trash, the trash collector will not collect
the trash. After certain amount of accumulation of trash that did not sort out
and collected, the household will be charge and be fine.
Advantage:
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People will start
to sort out their trash.
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Build up
responsibility for their trash.
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Recycle problem
will be decrease.
Disadvantage:
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Forcing people to
sort out their trash.
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People will be
unhappy with the new law.
Green Bin
The Green Bin is a garbage bin for
individual household. The Green Bin is design in several holes indicate
different type of waste materials. It is attached to the wall in the kitchen.
Advantage:
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Convenient for
sorting
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out rubbish.
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Saving space
Disadvantage:
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The holes might be
too small for big trash.
Door-to-door Collection Day
Door-to-door collection is that every
Sunday, the trash collector will drop by each household to collect all the
trash. All the trash has to be sort out by the residence themselves. Each
household will be given different trash bags for them to sort out their own
trash for recycling.
Advantage:
- Encourage people to start recycling.
- More convenient for residence.
Disadvantage:
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Trash may
accumulate too much along the corridor.
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Un-hygiene
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Residence might
find it too long to wait for the collector to collect their trash
1 of the Housewife Interview
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Mrs Keisuke Cherie, 32 years old, has a 7 year old
daughter and a Japanese husband. Mrs Keisuke’s family lives in a private
property terrace house at Leith Park road. She is also a full time housewife
while her husband works in a foreign company as a manager. Her daughter attends
primary 1 in a local school. Her hobbies are basically baking, cooking and
doing art and crafts.
Mrs
Keisuke has to wake up 6am in the morning to prepare her daughter for school
and her husband for work. She has to bring her daughter to school and get home
to do laundry. Then during the afternoon she will head out to meet her cousin
who is also a housewife for lunch as they both live near. Then, she will also
head to SerangoonNex Mall for groceries shopping at the supermarket. She loves
baking and cooking stuffs. She will prepare some tea break snacks around late
afternoon and fetch my daughter from the student care. She will prepare dinner
during evening. After dinner, she will spend time guiding her daughter doing
school work, or do some art and craft with her. She will spread out the house
chores through the week. She will also do some baking or having some crafts
session over the weekends with her daughter and sisters.
3R Campaign
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The 3R System
The name of the design is “The 3R
System”.3R stands for Recycle, Rebate and Redeem. People have to recycle
first to get points rebate, lastly they will able to redeem the points at
several places such as Fair Price (NTUC), OG (Singapore based Department
Store).
Trash Collecting Day:
Trash Collectors will drop by at each
household to collect the waste materials on every Wednesday and Saturday. On
Wednesday, they will collect Plastics and Electronic waste materials. On
Saturday, they will collect Papers, Metals and others waste materials. Label
Trash Bags will also be provided every week for residence to sort out the
waste. Residence will just have to leave the garbage outside the house during
those collecting days. Waste materials that place outside the door for
collection on the wrong materials day will not be collected. Trash Collector
will weight and key into the system of how much waste the household recycled.
Point-Card System:
Every Singaporean will sign up a 3R
account under their names. To activate their account, the person must firstly
visit the website www.3Rs.com.sg and the Point-Card will be sent to the address stated in
the registration within 2 weeks time. Upon the trash collection from each
household, only 1 point-card account will be keyed into the system for the
points.
If trash is too much, bring it to the
nearest Neighbourhood Community Centre for recycling, state the name and IC
numbers to update the points. Everyone is able to recycle at the Neighbourhood
Community Centre every day except Public Holidays.
Every 1 kg recycled will get 100
points to the account. The point system account is valid for life time, points
can be accumulated up until a year. Points will be re-new every year. Points
are able to be checked on the website as well as the neighbourhood community
centre. Points can be redeemed at all Fair Price (NTUC) outlets and OG
(Singapore based Department store).
If the card is misplaced or found,
please return it to the Neighbourhood Community Centre.
What can be recycle?
Tuesday, 15 April 2014 at12:03
There is a lot of materials in this world that is able to recycle but most of the people do not know about that. Thus whenever people saw a recycle bin and their holding a recyclable rubbish they just throw it to the recycle bin without knowing that some of the parts are not recyclable. Actually there is a lot of materials that can be recycled. For example the common things that is recyclable is glass drinking bottles. The glass are able to recycle but the lids must recycle separately. When recycling the glass drinking bottles do not forget to leave the lids off. Other materials such as milk cartons or any other cartons are able to recycle as well. Paper from magazines, newspapers, waste office paper and contact books also recyclable as well as aluminum drink can, steel food cans, paint tins, aerosol containers, coffee tins, bottle tops and jar lids. Plastics or any kind of things with recyclable symbols on them are also able to recycle.
Knowing that are many things are able to recycle but take note also that there is some items cannot be recycled according to the range, complexity to hazards. This kinds of items need to separate for example light bulbs. On some places they provide a drop off areas for light bulbs collecting to avoid mercury contamination of the landfill. Plastics without recycling symbols might not be able to recycle. Drinking glasses, crockery, Pyrex or other ovenproof glass as well as ceramics are not able to recycle. Other things that are unable to recycle also are carbon paper, foil wrapping, laminated paper, gift ribbon and wrapping, sticker, foil potato chip bags.
Some recycling place are not accepting aerosol. Mirrors, window glass or broken glass are able to recycle also. Item contaminated with food such as take away containers and pizza boxes, items such as tetra packs, batteries, paint tin, oil, polystyrene, tin foil, clothing may be recyclable but depend on which country or what processing plants are being used. There are also some things that people should not recycle because it was considered dirty but unfortunately turned up in recycle from time to time like dead animals, medical waste, used diapers or sanitary ware, used syringes and unwanted live animals. These kinds of act are considered are irresponsible, cruel and ignorant but most people do this due to economic problems.
Recycling Week at Australia
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Previously my group has done several case studies on recycling campaign across country. One of the case study is on Recycling in Australia.
Although Australia regarded as having relatively established recycling services, it is also the second highest per capita producers of waste in the world. It produces over 18 million tons of waste in a year. As the news released by Planet Ark Environmental Foundation, people in Australia also started to take part in this problem.
Once a year, Planet Ark Environmental Foundation holds National Recycling Week where in one-week people in Australia recycle their waste. It is also especially applied at school and workplaces. It aims to engage students in learning about the environmental benefits of recycling, to increase the number of businesses/workplaces involved in recycling, and also promoting the re-use and recycling initiatives in the community.
Overall, it aims to bring national focus in environmental benefits of recycling, including greater tonnage and less contamination, of kerbside, industrial and community recycling programs. Popular with media, Planet Ark Environmental use media to do the campaign. They embrace every sponsorship to make this happened every year and use celebrities such as Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Newton-John, Steve Irwin, Nicole Kidman, etcetera to front its campaign.
The result of this act brings Australia to a better environmental. Recycle in this country has rapidly increased and become one of countries which succeed in recycle.
Brainstorming
Wednesday, 9 April 2014 at23:24
Through the process of brainstorming, 101 ideas compiled into a mind-map. This brainstorming process states clearly on what are the possible solutions, current solutions and new ideas that can be invented for the future. Discovered different ways of ideas that can improve the solutions on recycling problem faced.
We came out with all the possible solutions towards the problem, without holding back any ideas. We are encourage not to restrict any ideas of solution, so that we are able to see all the possible and futuristic solutions. Everyone has contribute their own individuals creative ideas and have this mind map complete. Through this process we are able to see the situation in a wider perspective.