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The 3Rs of Waste Management Hierarchy: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Of these, I would like to focus specifically on Recycle as the topic for our research project. So, why is it important?
Recycling is certainly not something new. It has been a common practice on Earth as far back as one can remember.
To state a few instances:
1. Companies recycle their chemical and energy resources to minimize wastes and maximize profits.
2. People donate their old clothing, books, and furniture to charity organizations.
3. Scraps metals are collected and melted for perpetual reuse.
So then, why is it important? Things certainly have been recycled. All is good and well. The world continues to spin around the sun on its orbit. Why bother the emphasis?
The answer is attitude.
By deaddays
The practice of recycling...
People are giving up on recycling. The term to use here is “Recycling Burnout”. Why is this happening?
Some reasons:
1. There is not enough demand for recycled products.
2. Not getting around to making an effort at recycling.
3. The feeling that one person’s efforts do not mean much.
By Torsten-Hufsky
So, what do all these mean?
People are recycling because it is a government’s mandate that recycling is compulsory. People are recycling because of the monetary benefit that could be gained. People are recycling not for the sake of recycling. Recycling exists but it is not of own attitude nor desire.
This means that something needs to be done about it. The initial step then is to define the general research question. How do we make recycling more efficient and relevant?
To do that, we first need an attitudinal survey to understand people’s mindset about recycling. In this case, we are going to limit the scope to NUS students. What are NUS students' perception on the practice of recycling?
Only then, can we take another step closer to saving Earth.
By Chocolateboys
EDIT: 17/09/2008
4 comments:
Omigosh!
Now that I have browsed through several blogs, there are quite a number of proposals on Recycling!
I am feeling a little less special...
This is a well described, important topic, Kheng Aik. It's clear and concise.
As I see it, you have two main research questions. That's fine. Given the chance though, could you develop one that would subsume both of these? To do that, you would need to define your survey population more precisely.
Thanks!
Hi,
That’s a very motivating point of view that you’ve got about recycling.
Perhaps one improvement to it is to bring the research topic to a smaller scale, like focusing on the NUS population or the Science students particularly since the survey will mostly be done by the Science students.
Nonetheless, good job!
WS
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