By NUR FARAHAIN ABDUL MUTALIB
SUBANG JAYA: Taylor’s University’s initiative to encourage students to recycle had received negative feedback from students and staff members.
Architecture major Siti Munirah Zazarin, 21, said, “Some of the recycling bins are not even labelled correctly.
“That itself creates confusion among students, and it lessens their interest to recycle.”
Siti Munirah also emphasized on the locations of the bins which are not strategic.
“Some of the recycling bins are placed at locations which can’t be seen by students, so I don’t think students will even bother to stop by and recycle,” she said.
Another student from a similar major, Nur Fazlin Zulkifli, 21, indicated that going beyond just creating campaigns is needed to garner engagement and initiate action from students.
“The campaigns are dull and don’t last long. Yes, at first they make a huge deal of it, then everyone keeps quiet, so we tend to forget and just don’t care,” she said.
TU School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Lecturer Norsafizar Mohd Noor agreed that students need more than just awareness campaigns and recycling bins to advocate the idea of saving Mother Nature.
“The university needs to be consistent and also creative in promoting such initiatives to its students.
“The campaigns should be continuous, and there should be other approaches to relate these students with recycling."
She added, “Lecturers should also play their part in promoting the act of recycling to students by explaining in class about recycling benefits, or by including it in lecture slides, like an advertisement.”
Norsafizar also agreed that the facilities provided by the university are rather dull and should be upgraded to attract students’ attention.
She mentioned that the university should devise creative ways of recycling to garner the attention of students such as creating weekly targets for students to achieve.
TU Senior Sustainability and Project Manager Edward Chong Eu Siang explained that Taylor’s is trying hard to promote recycling among its students and there is no giving up on the initiative.
He said, "We are fully aware of the situation and we are coming up with a new initiative, the Energy Conservation Opportunities ECO Environmental Campaign.
"We will be teaming up with the Facilities, EHS, Security and Admin (FEHSSA) Organization in rolling out the Solid Wastes Recycling Project, which is part of this campaign.”
SUBANG JAYA: Taylor’s University’s initiative to encourage students to recycle had received negative feedback from students and staff members.
Architecture major Siti Munirah Zazarin, 21, said, “Some of the recycling bins are not even labelled correctly.
“That itself creates confusion among students, and it lessens their interest to recycle.”
Siti Munirah also emphasized on the locations of the bins which are not strategic.
“Some of the recycling bins are placed at locations which can’t be seen by students, so I don’t think students will even bother to stop by and recycle,” she said.
Another student from a similar major, Nur Fazlin Zulkifli, 21, indicated that going beyond just creating campaigns is needed to garner engagement and initiate action from students.
“The campaigns are dull and don’t last long. Yes, at first they make a huge deal of it, then everyone keeps quiet, so we tend to forget and just don’t care,” she said.
TU School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Lecturer Norsafizar Mohd Noor agreed that students need more than just awareness campaigns and recycling bins to advocate the idea of saving Mother Nature.
“The university needs to be consistent and also creative in promoting such initiatives to its students.
“The campaigns should be continuous, and there should be other approaches to relate these students with recycling."
She added, “Lecturers should also play their part in promoting the act of recycling to students by explaining in class about recycling benefits, or by including it in lecture slides, like an advertisement.”
Norsafizar also agreed that the facilities provided by the university are rather dull and should be upgraded to attract students’ attention.
She mentioned that the university should devise creative ways of recycling to garner the attention of students such as creating weekly targets for students to achieve.
TU Senior Sustainability and Project Manager Edward Chong Eu Siang explained that Taylor’s is trying hard to promote recycling among its students and there is no giving up on the initiative.
He said, "We are fully aware of the situation and we are coming up with a new initiative, the Energy Conservation Opportunities ECO Environmental Campaign.
"We will be teaming up with the Facilities, EHS, Security and Admin (FEHSSA) Organization in rolling out the Solid Wastes Recycling Project, which is part of this campaign.”