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From Rubbish to Rubbish Bin Sembawang Primary School

Nur Asilah Bte Mohamad Rasid

Toh Hui Ling Joceling

Yeo Yong Qing

Nadiah Bte Amir

+ It all started on one Friday morning…

Hi girls. We are going to take part

in the DFC competition.

What is DFC? What are we supposed to

do?

DFC stands for Design for Change. We will try to address one main problem in our

school. We shall do a Green problem in our school.

+ So, the following Wednesday, we met up with our teacher. She went through…

+ Then, it was time for us to crack our brains with…

1. Imagine we are journalists. Investigate the community around us. Look around and observe your surrounding area. Read the papers and magazines, online articles or watch the news.

2. Identify 3 things that we like in your neighbourhood, or anywhere in Singapore that we wish to preserve & grow. These could be good practices around the world that we wish to bring into Singapore.

3. Identify 3 things that we don’t like and we wish they could be changed. Choose things that really touch our heart and we feel very strongly about.

4. Record our ideas through photos, videos, drawings, stories or interviews. Work on these ideas and bring these with you to Module 2.

+ We went back home, thinking what Green issue in our school that we found disturbing.

When the students buy Milo and finish drinking

it, they will throw it inside the dustbin. If

the vendor see it, they will give the students a

long lecture. The students will then throw it into the recycling bin for Milo packets. They are not doing it willingly

but out of force.

Pupils are wasting too much paper. They don’t bother to

recycle.

Although there are many recycling

efforts, like making the recycling boxes,

it is as if all our efforts go to waste as people still don’t

recycle.

There are recycling boxes in the classes, but they still don’t

recycle.

+ We also went around asking our schoolmates, what they felt and thought.

+ So, for the Module 2 workshop at Northland Primary School, we came up with this.

+ However, we found out that we were not exactly addressing the main issue that we faced.

Hmmm… what should we focus

on?

Let’s see. How else can we improve our ideas…

So, we went back, thinking how we could further improve our ideas.

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Oh my goodness!!! Why is my classroom always so

dirty and messy? So many papers lying around. So

much litter on the table.

Alas, we saw the a common problem in our classroom.

+ We also saw another problem in the canteen and field.

Asilah! Look! So many plastic bottles after CCA!!! Our schoolmates are always

littering the school. I think we can do something about this.

Yes! I agree! Hey! Joceling was saying something about the classroom being very

messy and full of litter, right?

+ Then, BAM! Why not put them together?

Girls…wait a minute. I have an idea. To solve the problem of plastic bottles being thrown, why not we recycle them into portable rubbish bins? So that our

classmates can use them to throw their papers, eraser shavings and tissue papers into the rubbish bins. Then our classrooms will not be messy again.

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+ We did quite a bit of preparation for this…

We did posters to be pasted at Stall 7.

+ And this…

We also created some pamphlets to email and give out to our schoolmates.

+ Then, we, together with the Green Club members, changed the rubbish into rubbish bin.

+ Once we are done, we tested our mini portable plastic rubbish bins in our classroom.

+ Then, we passed these mini rubbish bins to our classmates and schoolmates, from 5A to 5C.

Our classmates

are throwing their litter

into the rubbish bins.

Our classrooms

are no longer full of litter.

We can now study in a cleaner classroom.

The field and canteen are clear of plastic bottles

too.

+ So, that was how we changed a rubbish into a rubbish bin. Not only we managed to keep our school clean, we also educate our schoolmates on how to recycle plastic bottles.

+ Done by:

Special thanks to our teachers: Mdm Hidayah Mdm Saira

Nur Asilah Bte

Mohamad Rasid

Nadiah Bte Amir Yeo Yong Qing

Toh Hui Ling

Joceling