Stories: What’s Breaking Recycling?: The ‘Culprit’ Behind Lower Recycling Rates
RecyClean, a student group, led a publicity campaign partnering with the NUS Zero Waste Taskforce to tackle contamination within recycling bins in NUS UTown.
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Stories: How Providing Rice Level Options Can Reduce Rice Waste
Visualise a bubble tea store menu, where you can choose your preferred drink size and sugar level. A similar menu options card for rice levels could get people to choose less rice and waste less, a group of third-year Yale-NUS students found out.
Stories: Recycling Right Through Better Design
Specially designed “Recycle Right” bins have been effective in getting people to recycle right, with contamination rates in plastic bottle recycling bins reduced by more than half.
News: Towards a Zero Waste NUS
NUS was awarded the International Sustainable Campus Excellence Award 2021 (Cultural Change for Sustainability category) for its long-term plan in promoting behavioural change for a zero waste campus.
Stories: The rubbish chute gets smart
When Covid-19 disrupted their plans, these boys turned their attention elsewhere – to designing and rolling out a smart chute that would tell people how much rubbish and recyclables they were generating.
News: Campus Testbed Initiative for Student-Led Zero-Waste Solutions
The first Zero Waste Testbed Initiative @ South West that was launched by Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, Ms Grace Fu, provides up to $10,000 in project funding to support NUS students and recent alumni to realise their zero waste project ideas on NUS campus.
News: Aiming for a zero-waste NUS
NUS set an ambitious goal of achieving a zero-waste campus in 10 years.
News: Nudging proper recycling: An in-depth waste analysis
An multi-disciplinary study on the effectiveness of recycling bin triggers in reducing contamination in recycling bins.
Stories: Protect Singapore’s Marine Life by Reducing Waste Generation
Ms Joleen Chan, Class of 2015 Life Science, writes about the importance of reducing waste to protect Singapore’s marine life.