Recycling Campaign

Last week was our college recycling week. This project is head by one of our Pre University Program. It is important to nurture and make our young generation aware of the importance of Taking Care of Our Environment. Pictures below are student's creativity / work:

Excerpts from Out in the Pacific, Plastic is getting Drastic (Algalita.org) and Trashed (Natural History v.112, n.9, Nov03)
• Plastics, like diamonds, are forever!
• In the week it took to cross the subtropical high, no matter what time of day I looked, plastic debris was floating everywhere: bottles, bottle caps, wrappers, fragments.
• It’s not a patch, it’s the size of a continent and it’s filling up with floating plastic waste
• For every 100 sq metres of sea surface there is about 1 pound of plastic debris, or roughly 3 million tons in the thousand-mile course through the gyre.
• 6 pounds of plastic for each pound of plankton

So what can we do?
• Use less plastic
• Say no to plastic bags
• Use your own (reusable) water bottles
• Put your rubbish in the bin
• Reuse, reduce, recycle
• Volunteer for beach/ river cleaning etc activities organised by NGOs
• Join or support an NGO that does work on the ground
• Find out more and tell everyone you know

More Interesting Facts to think about…
• The majority of marine debris comes from people's mishandling of waste materials while on land.
• Debris can be blown into the water or carried by creeks, rivers, storm drains and sewers into the ocean.
• A glass bottle takes one million years to break down in the environment.
• An aluminum can takes 80 to 200 years to break down in the environment.
• 4 to 5 trillion plastic bags—including large trash bags, thick shopping bags, and thin grocery bags—were produced globally in 2002
• A plastic bag takes 10 to 20 years to degrade in the environment.
• A cigarette filter takes one to five years to break down in the environment.
• A newspaper takes six weeks to degrade in the environment.