- What are some of the things that schools in Singapore are doing in order to take care of the environment ?
- Some schools ask their students to bring their electricity bills from home to track their month to month energy use and teach them to save energy . Some schools also emphasize on issues like energy conservation and climate change . Elias Park Primary School contribute fruit peels to the school's 3 compost bins , which can convert food waste into fertilizers , and teach the students about recyclable materials . Commonwealth Secondary has its own wetland , which treats grey water from bathroom sinks and study the wetland's plants and animals . Marsiling Lower Secondary students do experiments like testing air quality in their school and Nanyang Girl's High School to ban cardboard takeaway boxes and bring their own instead .
- Do you think one person's effort in reducing , reusing andrecycling will make a difference in saving the environment ? What steps have you taken in the effort to save the Earth ?
- Yes , but at a certain extent because if only one person does so but the rest does not , then there will no difference at all . So , I think that everyone must do so , to save the Earth as those " little helpers " make such a difference in the world . What i've done so far is just ; turning off the lights and fans when not in use and reuse , reduce , recycle . Other things are just natural like cutting down electricity usage and conserve water . These are all basic things that not only me , but everyone should do too because we need to save these scarce resources as we need them in our daily lives .
- Some schools ask their students to bring their electricity bills from home to track their month to month energy use and teach them to save energy . Some schools also emphasize on issues like energy conservation and climate change . Elias Park Primary School contribute fruit peels to the school's 3 compost bins , which can convert food waste into fertilizers , and teach the students about recyclable materials . Commonwealth Secondary has its own wetland , which treats grey water from bathroom sinks and study the wetland's plants and animals . Marsiling Lower Secondary students do experiments like testing air quality in their school and Nanyang Girl's High School to ban cardboard takeaway boxes and bring their own instead .
- Do you think one person's effort in reducing , reusing andrecycling will make a difference in saving the environment ? What steps have you taken in the effort to save the Earth ?
- Yes , but at a certain extent because if only one person does so but the rest does not , then there will no difference at all . So , I think that everyone must do so , to save the Earth as those " little helpers " make such a difference in the world . What i've done so far is just ; turning off the lights and fans when not in use and reuse , reduce , recycle . Other things are just natural like cutting down electricity usage and conserve water . These are all basic things that not only me , but everyone should do too because we need to save these scarce resources as we need them in our daily lives .
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