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I NEED more useful education related to recycling (Hands-On / Clarity)

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I need more motivation / incentives to recycle

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I need to find recycling to be more convenient.

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Youths are influential, especially in an enclosed environment such as in school. They would follow their peers. If the youths do not see their peers recycling, they wouldn't see the importance or the needs to it and just follow their actions.

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The youths isn't too bothered about the waste they produce and how they recycle in general. They would throw away their waste into any convenient bins.

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3. Insight: Oblivious to Importance of Recycling

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3. Insight: Oblivious to Importance of Recycling

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Most interviewees don't recycle as they don't think it's important.

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Rare to see posts on recycling awareness on influential social media platform.

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2. Insight: It is troublesome to recycle

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2. Insight: It is troublesome to recycle

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- Recycled items need to be washed and dried

- Recycle bin may be far away

- Recycling is time-consuming

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1. Insight: It is difficult to recycle in schools.

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1. Insight: It is difficult to recycle in schools.

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- Lack of recycling bins in school
- Recycling education is least priority

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1. Insights: Convenience of Recycle Bins

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1. Insights: Convenience of Recycle Bins

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- Recycling Bins are near homes
- Recycling Bins at void deck of HDBs or Condos

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- Parents enforce habits onto their Children
- Friends recycle regularly and others follow their lead

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- Mostly relying on the Government to tell the citizens to recycle
- Mostly relying on the schools to promote recycling among students

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- recycling education programs
- accessible and convenient recycling infrastructure
- recycling apps

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- we recycle the straw hearts and then we make a sculpture of what remains of Singapore

- design a fashion out of recycled materials that we can find in school; use newspapers, plastic bottles and caps, wrappers; use these straws as well.

-my grandmother loved to cook; she recycled those, you know, peanut butter jam; use to stock up her ingredients inside.

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- The Lower secondary students are not genuinely passionate in recycling, but instead, are required to partake in these VIA projects due to the school's curriculum.

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- Throwing Plastic Bottles in the recycling Rins.
- Bringing their bags instead of using Plastic Bags
- Reusing Plastic Bottles
- Reusing Plastic Bags as Trash Bags

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1. Insight: There is a lack of knowledge when it comes to recycling

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1. Insight: There is a lack of knowledge when it comes to recycling

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- Unsure of the materials that can be recycled
- Unsure of which recycle bin to use

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My name is Kylie, I am a second-year undergraduate studying law at Singapore Management University, my hobby is that I really like listening to music, I like to occasionally go on hiking tracks with my friends going out to movies. In my household, I live with my parents, my sister and my helper, as well as with 2 pet hamsters.

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- we usually have lessons of learning about recycle, not much of our activities

-I didn’t have the knowledge back then; wasn't being promoted vastly by the teachers, by parents, by adults especially

- actually crucial to actually learn about recycling back in school days; might apply in your work industry

-Would you say Singapore's education wasn't really active in promoting recycling?

Yeah, it wasn't

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- we usually have lessons of learning about recycle, not much of our activities

-I didn’t have the knowledge back then; wasn't being promoted vastly by the teachers, by parents, by adults especially

- actually crucial to actually learn about recycling back in school days; might apply in your work industry

-Would you say Singapore's education wasn't really active in promoting recycling?

Yeah, it wasn't

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` family members do not recycle at all
thats part of the reasons y she doesnt k anything about recycling

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(Home)
- a recycle bin area just around the corner under my block.
- my family will actually collect a lot of plastic bottles
- if we don't want to use it anymore, we just throw it inside one plastic for recycled plastic bottles
-we just go down and by the block, we just recycle inside the recycle bin.
- usually every weekend. I always have a family outing with my family.
- have a plastic bag on hand in case like we buy some bottles or any food that we tapau
- put inside the plastic and just throw it away inside the recycle bin.

- (Work Practices) my company is that they actually have like a bin inside the office where everybody can just recycle.
- plastic bottles or like Styrofoam packets we usually would throw inside the recycle bin.
-reuse a natural soil as well as recycling.. recycled soil such as sand.
-my company learned that rubber is a hazard; they also cannot recycle using rubber as well
- use a different type of synthetic turf where they used threads instead
- (Recycling Bin at Client Houses) usually have it outside their house
- natural soil, we even use sand as well

-(Future Project) like the community to actually engage with us as well to actually promote more recycling and the greenery
-help like you plant your own plants activities where we were actually make use of different types of soil
-herbs and spices, where they can plant or when they put at home, they can actually replant it for cooking and in terms of frequency as well

- (Synthetic Turf) most of them wanted like Pearl or tall grass; would actually urge them use synthetic turf where you don't have to plant every day; safer to use for animals and kids; overheating weather, it won't burn out.

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- Keep plastic bags to use as like, rubbish, rubbish bin, and holders

- Put boxes at the back of the kitchen to recycle materials such as glass, metals, plastics, cardboard, and paper recycling boxes.

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- learning physically (better) than mentally
- promote like in terms of recycling activities or like a recycling competition.
-like my own kids actually collect any plastic bottles; just cut the bottle in half and plant some soil with seeds in it, infuse greenery in the plastic bottles.
-make use of my step to actually like infuse the recycle and creativity together.

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- 24 years old currently and I am working as a Assistant Landscape Architect at Esmond Landscape.

-NAFA and actually took a diploma of Landscape and Architecture.

-relaxing time, me watching Netflix, especially like documentary shows.

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- SMU they have multiple recycling bins for glass, paper, and metal, situated at least every level I think at every building there is like several there is a few.

- Even in semi-public areas and open spaces, there will also be recycling bins to throw our recycling materials just like paper, newspaper, and cups that we use for projects that we want to recycle. It's pretty accessible in SMU.

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Challenges faced as a teacher when it comes to recycling

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Challenges faced as a teacher when it comes to recycling

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- What are some challenges you face as a teacher when it comes to recycling?
o Considering that my recycling efforts mostly target plastic and paper, I think not much of a challenge because the stuff is always there. The recycling bins for example.

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- How convenient is it for you to recycle at home?
o Kind of convenient because it's my own house, I recycle my own recyclable materials. So that;s between me and my stuff, no issue there. I can bring it out, I can reuse it, It's up to me.

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We will try our best to wash them first before we dry it and put it into the relevant boxes for the different materials.

Have to rinse it under the water to ensure that the sticky residue will not contaminate the other materials.

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Making recycling more accessible and convenient in school

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Making recycling more accessible and convenient in school

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- How do you think we can make recycling more accessible and convenient for use?
o Accessible and closer to areas with higher human traffic, for example, in the canteen. But the problem with it being in the canteen, there will always be irresponsible students. I see you smiling. You know what I'm talking about. There will always be irresponsible students who treat these recycling areas as convenient places to throw their trash. You'll see chicken wings, you will see waste food. You know what I'm talking about. So the hassle of keeping these areas clean and focus on their... focus on the recycling efforts is going to be quite large. I am unsure of how effective that will be. After some time, it will look very worn down, more and more students will use it as a convenient dumping ground, and it will lose its purpose. So if it can happen, it needs to happen in an area with higher road traffic, more human traffic. So that's one. Maybe a club or something in that. For example, we have Info Comm Club, right? So something along that line, but it needs to be, a lot of this needs to be pushed. There must be a lot of drive behind it, whether it's from a student or from a teacher. I think around 7 or 8 years ago, there was this student who was very enthusiastic about... You know that day, 28th of March, when we shut down all the power for 1 hour? Shut down power. Shut down power. Switch off electricity, switch off air-con, switch off.. Its nation wide, its international. Maybe i google this hang on. So the thing is the difference between that activity or rather the person who pushed that activity was that student. It was not a teacher, it was a student. He literally went around class to class, “Hi, have you all switched off the fans, the lights? You just wait for this one hour.” He did it. He proposed it, he checked on it, he did it. And I've forgotten his name... Thank you, Earth Hour. Yes. Last Saturday of March. Yes, there was this student who was very enthusiastic about it. 7 or 8 years ago, that it was a student-initiated program. He pushed for it, he asked the teachers for permission, he promoted it, he put up the flyers for it.

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- The government, educational institutions, and community organizations can collaborate to implement comprehensive recycling education programs, create convenient and accessible recycling infrastructure, and offer incentives to motivate youths to actively participate in recycling initiatives.

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How technology is able to promote recycling

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How technology is able to promote recycling

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- What role can technology play in promoting recycling amongst youth?
o I guess it can happen. I just don't really have a very specific idea of how it will happen. “Hey, come and join us for this recycling event at Sundaibulo” or something like that on Saturday. Yeah, I guess it could work. Promotion is one thing, getting people on board and enthusiastic about it is another. I may know about it, whether or not I'll turn up on that Saturday, that's a different story. All of us have our own priorities, our own things that we consider important. You will know lots of things from social media, whether or not you jump on board with it. It's a different thing. I think that's all. That's all I have to answer.

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Recycling bins are several blocks away.

Contamination will occur if people were to also contaminate the same blue bins

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- Does the school do anything towards the e-waste?
o I would say not. I know there's something in the news more recently, Blue Box or something like that? Yeah, Blue Box. But that is in the news, and whether there's been any translation of new stuff into school lessons or school teaching, I don't think it has happened. I haven't seen it in my own subjects. Yeah. Anything in particular?

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- Can you talk more about the VIA projects in regards to recycling?
o So at Sec 1, what happened was the theme for Sec 1 VIA was environment and as part of environment, students were through a series of lessons told about the impact of recycling and talked about ways to recycle. So one of the ways was upcycling, using plastic bottles to create maybe sculptures of certain Singapore tourist destinations. For example, Changi Airport with a bottle or with three bottles, I don't know what version they had. Or, I don't know why it was though. They use plastic bottles to create usable objects, for example flower pot holders, or pencil cases, or whatever objects that can contain stuff, they use plastic bottles for that. They cut, they design first, and then they put it together, they decorate it, all these kinds of things. How effective they are, I do not know. I do not know if the students actually brought those artifacts home and, hey, I put it as a flower pot holder, or they used it in their pencil box, I don't know. They were told to bring it back at the end of it. I cannot see an impact. But at least they are exposed to those ideas during the lesson, and they do something, a hands-on activity to try and consolidate or to try out what they are playing. I remember one more upcycling project, I can't remember which level that was, either 1 or 2. The students were told to bring old t-shirts...So basically they have a video of how to upcycle those T-shirts, put it together, make it a blanket or something like that. That sounds so weird, right? Yeah.

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- So do you think there is a need to have a new subject which teaches about recycling, especially when it comes to materials that may contaminate recyclable materials such as plastic movers. Because previously you mentioned that Sec 1 did those such cases or was influenced towards those events. But whereas for Sec 2, Sec 3 adn Sec 4, they aren't really too involved?
o I would say not at secondary level. Not at secondary level. Reason? There must be an economically viable reason for a certain subject. I mean, leaving aside all the values and CCE and all that which is already being taught in schools right now, if let's say we want to have something about recycling, it's already covered under CCE. Because VIA is under CCE, right? So, recycling environment is already covered. But to come up with an entirely new subject, there needs to be resources put into it. There needs to be teachers. There needs to be training. And there needs to be a certain end product. OK, if let's say I teach this subject, what do I get out of it? Can a student learning this subject go out, put it on their resume, and say, I know how to recycle, and expect something out of it? This is a very blunt way of looking at it.

- Do you think the school has done enough to implement recycling habits towards the student?
o That's the problem I have with answering this question. If enough means that every single plastic bag or every single plastic bottle gets recycled, for example, maybe we can use Japan as an example. Japan has a very strong recycling culture. Are we there yet? We are nowhere near. So whether or not there has been enough effort to get us there yet, definitely not. Is that our objective? I do not think so. So a better question might be... let me think about this one for a short while... A better question might be... should recycling rank higher as a priority? I do not have an answer for this, and it's something I'm not able to answer at this level.

- Is there anything in the school that encourages the students and the staff to recycle?
o Anything in the school that encourages the students and staff to recycle? Okay. To encourage whether staff or students, there needs to be a worthy outcome. Something that students and staff can see and work towards. That would be the encouragement. So I think two years ago, what one teacher did, the program was something about recycling shoes. ...So the rubber soles of the shoes would be removed and go through some process, I'm not sure what process, and it will be used for surfacing of those running tracks. So they will use the rubber soles or the soles of shoes to surface the tracks....So that actually had a more visual impact for the students, and I actually saw quite a few students fill up a bin. I think the bin is still downstairs. Yeah, the bin is still downstairs. But it has no shoes inside. So, it's something easier for the students and staff to imagine, okay, I'm donating my shoes, and I'm going to see a new running track somewhere. That running track might not be in my country, it might be in Indonesia, it might be in the Philippines, whatever it is, but I'm helping to create that. It's easier to visualize. to visualise. So if we have easier or more easily visualised targets for recycling, that might help. But often it's kind of hard to think about it. I mean, I could visualise, oh, Pulau Semakau is no longer so packed. But that's a bit hard. It's imagining something that's not there, rather than something that is created by your efforts. So I don't really have a... how do I put this? Some target for encouraging students and staff to recycle.

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Schools have also started their own recycling initiatives.

The school initiated Tetra pack recycling.

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Currently, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube are among the most influential social media platform

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Social media campaigns to advocate recycling in youth, as well as events and conventions in various parts of Singapore to encourage and advocate the benefits of recycling in our community.

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Encouragement towards students in Singapore for recycling

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Encouragement towards students in Singapore for recycling

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- What are the things you can do to help encourage students to start caring for the environment by recycling?
o As a teacher, if I were to carry out a project, I will need to make sure, whatever project it is, whether recycling or otherwise, I will need to make sure that 1. the objectives can be achieved, 2. the rest of the teachers who are carrying it out, they must be comfortable enough to carry it out. So I will not be looking for very complicated upcycling, it will need to be simple, it will need to be, I would say, limited in its objectives. So, if I were to encourage, I would still continue with whatever is being done, whether it's the plastic bottles or the plastic bags, etc. There also needs to be a greater focus for the teachers to learn better upcycling skills, so that they are more comfortable in carrying it out, or role-modelling it for their students.

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- Government app called my Environment, EMV.

- Bloobox

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- Segregated recyclable waste, non-recyclable waste, and general waste into different bags of rubbish

- They have very clear instructions on each color-coded bag on what to put inside and where you should dispose

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- world now uses more technology, factories; promote more of the poisonous gas that will affect like the surrounding air;

-In terms of fabric, in terms of like plastics and all I wasn't sure up; my boss actually like give knowledge, how to recycle using fabrics and threads and all which is through synthetic turf

-not many have seen that (bottle cap vending machine) throughout Singapore

-saw like one of my neighbors throwing away a pair of pillows inside the recycle bin; a pair of pillows inside the recycle bin.

Interviewee's POV on SG's Recycling Practice

- still needs improvement to actually voice out the benefits of recycling

-  came across a few vending machines; the amount of recycled plastic bottles that you have collected is the amount of money that you receive

- some parts (of SG) that have been neglected. I've witnessed it myself.

-a small area where they usually ignore

-will leave any piece of trash at the open space area.

-people that are very inconsiderate

-they would just leave it to the cleaners

-But how often do.. do we even make use of it as an everyday life? I'm not sure.

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Importance on recycling in schools and suggestions.

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Importance on recycling in schools and suggestions.

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- Do you think it's important for the school to recycle?
o It's always important to recycle, but schools, I would say, have a lot of different priorities in mind. Recycle is there, but it may not be the number one priority.

- How would you suggest the school to implement good recycling habits amongst, for example, the staff.
o I know teachers deal with a lot of paper, so the paper recycling bin is almost always seeing a lot of use. other than the paper recycling bin ,theres one for botttles next to it, it's quite prominent.

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- Do you think the students are well aware of recycling?
o Well, they are exposed to the importance of recycling. The sec 1 VIA project across the Sec 1 level actually focuses on environment. So recycling is, if I'm not not wrong, emphasised in that Sec 1 VIA project. Sec 2, Sec 3, Sec 4 will focus on other things, but i'm doing Sec 1, does focus on environment and along the way, recycling.

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- What do you do with the plastic bags and plastic bottles? DO you just put it inside the bin or do you try to reuse it?
o Plastic bags usually for binning waste, like wet waste especially. Plastic bottles, sometimes I just use it for storoing water or for random other purposes.

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How frequent does the interviewee recycle.

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How frequent does the interviewee recycle.

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- Do you tend to recycle?
o At most it will be the plastic bags, reusing them, as well as maybe the plastic bottles.

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- Does the student here recycle?
o Not much of a habit of recycling, there are programs, initiatives

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You segregate your recyclable waste and your non-recyclable waste, and general waste into like different bags of rubbish and they have very clear instructions on each color-coded bag on what to put inside and where you should dispose it properly because in their country they bring it outside their building and their rubbish collector, or recyclable collectors will come by your building to collect these bags

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- The government, educational institutions, and community organizations can collaborate to implement comprehensive recycling education programs, create convenient and accessible recycling infrastructure, and offer incentives to motivate youths to actively participate in recycling initiatives.

- raising awareness through educational campaigns in schools, colleges, and community centers

- creating engaging and interactive recycling initiatives such as recycling contests, workshops, and events

- collaborating with influencers and leveraging social media platforms can amplify the message

- placing recycling bins in strategic locations such as schools, parks, and shopping malls

- Mobile applications can be developed to provide recycling information, tips, and reminders.

- Gamification elements can be incorporated to make recycling a fun and competitive activity

- establish a recycling ambassador program in schools

- partnering with local businesses to provide incentives such as discounts or rewards for individuals who recycle

- a system that tracks and rewards individuals for their recycling efforts

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she thinks that youth doesnt have good recycling habits more bc they dont k rather than laziness

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- a lack of awareness about recycling practices

- limited access to recycling facilities in certain areas

- a lack of motivation to participate in recycling initiatives.

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` schools should cultivate environmental awareness in students
` promote the importance of recycling to students, and why people have to recycle
` need to take actions like organise some speeches to inform students about the importance of recycling, organise some games and activities to promote recycling
` can tell what students can really do like throw water bottles into recycling bins after they finish
` family takes part. parents should be aware of recycling or else their children will not be aware of
` some youths may be influenced by their friends
` (what government, schools and society can do)

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- my family members they did recycling

- my relatives I think they are, they do not have the awareness of recycling. So they didn’t do the recycling.

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- didn’t have the knowledge back then; wasn't being promoted vastly by the teachers, by parents, by adults especially

- world now uses more technology, factories; promote more of the poisonous gas that will affect like the surrounding air;

-In terms of fabric, in terms of like plastics and all I wasn't sure up; my boss actually like give knowledge, how to recycle using fabrics and threads and all which is through synthetic turf

-not many have seen that (bottle cap vending machine) throughout Singapore

-saw like one of my neighbors throwing away a pair of pillows inside the recycle bin; a pair of pillows inside the recycle bin.

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- the recycling habits of youths in Singapore aged 6-25 vary

- While some individuals in this age group may have good recycling habits, others may not be as engaged in recycling practices

- some of teenagers are not responsible they just throw the rubbish anyhow. Maybe the rubbish is non recycle, but they still throw in the recycle bin

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- I didn’t see a lot of recycle bin in my school

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-  Actually I never recycle my trash. Yeah, I don’t have any recycling habits.

- very uh hard for me to recycle because ... different types of recycle bins so you need to choose which rubbish is which recycle bins.

- I think it is quite troublesome.

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- I am 19 years old.
- studying in Diploma in Information Technology

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reasons she thinks y youth doesnt have good recycling habits

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reasons she thinks y youth doesnt have good recycling habits

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` dont k y should recycle
` dont k how to recycle
` parents' unwillingness/ unawareness towards recycling may affect their kids
` difficult to recycle in school (at least her school)
` she only k abt recycling by online resources and the government
` she thinks that recycling is far away from her
` she doesnt k any current situations in sg

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` in general (not only SG), she feels youth doesnt have good recycling habits
` only a few of her friends recycle (basically throw water bottles into recycling bins)
` in SG, she also feels youth doesnt have good recycling habits

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I know that is, government app called my Environment, it's short form for my EMV, and it tells people of like different areas of like buildings in Singapore.

On how to recycle it at the nearest station, where to collect your blue box, the blue box is a box given to many households to recycle your recyclable materials and to put them into the relevant things.

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Opinion in Improving Recycling Practices

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Opinion in Improving Recycling Practices

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- learning physically (better) than mentally
- promote like in terms of recycling activities or like a recycling competition.
-like my own kids actually collect any plastic bottles; just cut the bottle in half and plant some soil with seeds in it, infuse greenery in the plastic bottles.
-make use of my step to actually like infuse the recycle and creativity together.

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- Tiktok: even the most random trend can influence you to follow it ; is like the most famous one

- Instagram: if one sees their friends doing it and just posting it very oftenly, they probably would… would follow

- Youtube: people can really influence a lot with their followers count

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I think there is like social media campaigns to advocate recycling in youth, as well as events conventions that occur in various parts of Singapore to encourage and advocate the benefits of recycling in our community

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how do you think you can help them (family members) to recycle?

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how do you think you can help them (family members) to recycle?

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" tell them practise recycling, bring plastic bags, water bottles that finished can be thrown inside recycling bins"

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I think generally in the long term, if you don't, if people do not sustain their levels of usage of like natural resources and raw materials, it will lead to, it will lead to an inevitable shortage of materials in the future, and as well as increasing, increasing amounts of landfill and waste that could pollute our environment, requiring more, more toxic fuels and flames to especially to incinerate the rubbish and it will also hurt and deplete the ozone layer as well.

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` she is willing to recycle
` friends' attitude encourages her to recycle
` parents' attitude affects her attitude towards recycling

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` one or two recycling bins in her school
` far away for her
` friends have some recycling habits
` teachers teach them to bring plastic bags to NTUC

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Suggestions on how to increase recycling

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Suggestions on how to increase recycling

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- give out incentives to people who recycle

- a recycling bin locator

- a leaderboard for recycling

- artificial intelligence camera that, when you scan something, it can automatically tell you if it’s recyclable or not

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I think the current, sanctions that you can recycle has been pretty in our faces so far, you have, educational campaigns to come to different schools to address about the importance of recycling, you have, asking students to initiate their projects in creating a more sustainable environment in our country and I think that I think even teaching kids from young and from young teaches in even like primary schools, secondary schools to also like follow through their own recycling habits. Schools have also started their own recycling initiatives I think, and It's been pretty prevalent so far,

So, I have heard of like campaigns, the school will initiate Tetra pack recycling and some of them, they did not last for very long, because the Tetra pack recycling areas, where they get their students to flatten their Tetra packets, and to throw that into the collecting box, almost all the recycled Tetra pack packages couldn't be used because they were contaminated in one way or another, and that did not last very long.

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- I don’t really think youths in Singapore have good recycling habits

- major challenge is youths thinking that it is very troublesome to recycle

- youths in Singapore, they don’t really do things if they don’t get anything back.

- lack of incentives in recycling, like they won’t be rewarded with anything if they recycle, so slowly no one does it

- I think they are quite aware of the consequences

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but I understand for some neighbours that their recycling bins are like several blocks away and sometimes you have to look exactly where it is, so is not so accessible for them,

My only concern is that the contamination that will occur if people were to also contaminate the same blue bins and all my efforts will be gone like nothing

I think, yes so one of the lifestyle problem problems is actually the issue of contaminated recyclable materials. They're all kind of used to discard it to the general waste.

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Thoughts on Singapore's Recycling Practices

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Thoughts on Singapore's Recycling Practices

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- still needs improvement to actually voice out the benefits of recycling

-  came across a few vending machines; the amount of recycled plastic bottles that you have collected is the amount of money that you receive

- some parts (of SG) that have been neglected. I've witnessed it myself.

-a small area where they usually ignore

-will leave any piece of trash at the open space area.

-people that are very inconsiderate

-they would just leave it to the cleaners

-But how often do.. do we even make use of it as an everyday life? I'm not sure.

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- I don’t really see them recycling and I don’t really think they put much thoughts into it

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- my parents recycle
- my parents lah, because they recycle a lot and, they would- uh encourage me to recycle and even- and sometimes they would ask me to help to recycle
- my mom keeps telling me that the environment is getting damaged every time we throw away plastic stuff

- my siblings, not really. I don’t think they recycle much, they just- they don’t really care about it I would say

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- I recycle because uh my… My parents, they do recycle so they kind of like, encourage me to recycle also

- I normally do things by like, if I can have a better option, I will do the better option

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- making sure that the recycling product- recycled product can be in the state that I can recycle.

- also not knowing what is the- if what I’m holding right now can be recycled or not

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So as for food items, for things that contain food items such as certain metals, and plastic and glass bottles, we will try our best to wash them first before we dry it and put it into the relevant boxes for the different materials. That's about it.

To me, it's not so bad because I just have to rinse it under the water to ensure that the sticky residue will contaminate the other materials,

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We will then bring it to the basement, the blue bin, to recycle our, to recycle the relevant recyclable materials.

Okay currently I live in a Condo apartment complex, so recycling the bloobins are situated right downstairs, in the basement car park, so all I have to do is click one lift down and I can access the bin relatively easy

in SMU in various parts of the school, they have like multiple, they have like those multiple recycling bins for like glass, paper, metal, situated at least every level I think at every building there is like several there is a few.

Even like semi-public areas and open spaces, there will also be recycling bins to throw our recycling materials just like paper, newspaper, and cups that we use for projects that we want to recycle. It's pretty accessible in SMU.

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` she doesnt k anything about recycling
>doesnt know what should be thrown inside the recycling bins
> cannot classify the type of rubbish
` cannot recongise the symbol for recycling
` a little bit lazy

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- we recycle the straw hearts and then we make a sculpture of what remains of Singapore

- design a fashion out of recycled materials that we can find in school; use newspapers, plastic bottles and caps, wrappers; use these straws as well.

-my grandmother loved to cook; she recycled those, you know, peanut butter jam; use to stock up her ingredients inside.

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- I feel like, uh, it is very troublesome to recycle sometimes

- very hard to clean the items before recycling

- it’s also sometimes very time consuming

- Recycling is not really of a high priority to me and if there is anything above it I would go and do it first

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I most of the time do not go and recycle, because it’s such a hassle to go and wash it and- to recycle it.

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- usually every weekend. I always have a family outing with my family.

- have a plastic bag on hand in case like we buy some bottles or any food that we tapau

- put inside the plastic and just throw it away inside the recycle bin.

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` doesnt have at all
(after that she mentioned she brings her own bags to NTUC instead of using the plastic bags in NTUC)
` friends around her have
` simple habits like throwing water bottles into rubbish bins
` has a lorry thing in her school to collect empty water bottles
` reasons y she nvr throw water bottles with her friends because she doesnt buy

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- a recycle bin area just around the corner under my block.

- my family will actually collect a lot of plastic bottles

- if we don't want to use it anymore, we just throw it inside one plastic for recycled plastic bottles

-we just go down and by the block, we just recycle inside the recycle bin.

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- at home uh, the most I do for recycling is just taking the things that we sorted out to into our separate recycling bin to throw it downstairs

- recycling bins down my HDB flat and it’s quite convenient

- Singapore has done quite a good job, like, putting like recycling bins in like- making it very common thing.

- when I do throw away batteries, I just throw them away, I didn’t even think that it can be recycled.

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- Normally in school, I don’t really recycle cause I don’t really see any recycling bins around

-  I don’t really see any recycling bins lying anywhere that is easily accessible, or like, very visible to people.

- don’t want to waste time to recycle and be late for my class

- quite difficult to recycle in school

- not really much recycling bins around the entire premise

- schedules are really busy and there’s really short time for breaks

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My mom has a few recycling habits that we can use. So one was that we could we could keep plastic bags to use as like, rubbish, rubbish bin, holders, and another one is that she will put boxes at the back of the kitchen to recycle materials such as glass, metals, plastics, cardboard, and a paper recycling boxes as well, so as long as they are clean and uncontaminated, we will try our best to segregate it into the different bins before when it's full,

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My name is Kylie, I am a second-year undergraduate studying law at Singapore Management University, my hobby is that I really like listening to music, I like to occasionally go on hiking tracks with my friends going out to movies. In my household, I live with my parents, my sister and my helper, as well as with 2 pet hamsters.

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- (Work Practices) my company is that they actually have like a bin inside the office where everybody can just recycle.
- plastic bottles or like Styrofoam packets we usually would throw inside the recycle bin.
-reuse a natural soil as well as recycling.. recycled soil such as sand.
-my company learned that rubber is a hazard; they also cannot recycle using rubber as well
- use a different type of synthetic turf where they used threads instead
- (Recycling Bin at Client Houses) usually have it outside their house
- natural soil, we even use sand as well

-(Future Project) like the community to actually engage with us as well to actually promote more recycling and the greenery
-help like you plant your own plants activities where we were actually make use of different types of soil
-herbs and spices, where they can plant or when they put at home, they can actually replant it for cooking and in terms of frequency as well

- (Synthetic Turf) most of them wanted like Pearl or tall grass; would actually urge them use synthetic turf where you don't have to plant every day; safer to use for animals and kids; overheating weather, it won't burn out.

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actually very important in our daily lives

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` 16 years old international student from China
` currently studying in a private secondary school
` like reading books, listening to music and playing games on handphones
` not exercise at all

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- I’m 17. I’m in School of Computing and in the Diploma of Information Technology
-Lives with parents and siblings in HDB flat

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- 24 years old currently and I am working as a Assistant Landscape Architect at Esmond Landscape.

-NAFA and actually took a diploma of Landscape and Architecture.

-relaxing time, me watching Netflix, especially like documentary shows.

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Generate as many insights per cluster

Insights should be supported by relevant data points

Identify the needs based on insights

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USE RED POST-IT FOR INSIGHTS

Write this data on your virtual Post-it.

(Exactly how they said it, don’t change their words!)

Group or Cluster Data

- Method 1 (quick sensing)

- Method 2 (by common themes)

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Identify the data that provides you with useful info for analysis

Generate data points for all interviewees.

Word for word; don’t summarize.

Revealing:
- Does it tell you more about the motivations and needs of your target user?
Authentic:
- Is it a story your interview told you or an observation you personally made?
Practical:
- Does it trigger ideas you can help your target user?