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2023
2023
Recycled Paper Making
Ozone: Project Orbis
On 8th and 9th of September, Nyns collaborated with a team from Raffles Girls' School and conducted a workshop for the Ozone event.
Beeswax Wrap Making Workshop
Our workshop aims to repurpose preloved clothing into beeswax wraps. These are sustainable alternatives for plastic wrappers, made with food safe and natural materials. Additionally, beeswax is anti-bacteria and the food warps could be reused up to a year!
Recycling Heroes Plastic Collection
For the Recycling Heroes inter-school recycling programme, NYNS held an interclass recycling competition which also aims to encourage students to recycle plastics.
Plastic recyclables collected from the interclass competition will contribute to our school’s ranking on the Recycling Heroes inter-school recycling competition leaderboard (Various primary schools and secondary schools from all across Singapore would be competing too! ).
We held 3 mass collections on separate dates in the morning around the canteen area. Students actively contributed and all the mass collections were very hectic and busy! We are glad that students are doing their part to promote the culture of recycling. :)
All the plastic recyclables collected on the third mass collection date. We had to put them to the side and sort them out during CCA time.
Weighing of recyclables.
All the plastic recyclables stored in our Storeroom.
Sale of upcycled crafts at Cafe
6 April 2023: Making upcycled coasters to sell at cafe
Braiding using cloth strips cut from donated clothes
2. Cut out a piece of circular cardboard for each coaster
3. Hot glue the braid onto the cardboard
More hot glue work at MakerSpace
Exploring a new way to make coaster: Hot glueing without cardboard
Some finished coasters!
6 April 2023: Making upcycled tassles
Save That Pen 2023
2 March 2023: Save That Pen sorting
Collaboration with ThriftStoreIAm - Thrift Sale in Nanyang for students and staff
Upcycling members modelling clothes to be sold at our upcoming 2023 Thrift Store!
CNY container collection 2023
2022
2022
2022 Reflections:
2022 Reflections:
What we did in 2022:
Sem 1
CNY container collection & donation
Clothes collection & donation
Easter sale (for pen refills)
Sem 2
Learning about compost from Food Citizen
Friendship day: upcycled friendship bracelet making workshop
Fairprice Share-A-Textbook 2022 donation drive
Teacher’s Day Fundraising (for pen refills)
Donation of refilled pens to Global Village for Hope
Took part in the Recycling Heroes campaign
What did we do well:
We were on task and managed to complete and carry out our projects well through coordinating our efforts as a team. We usually split up the focus group so that we can complete small tasks simultaneously (creating proposals, washing cans) so that we are efficient. We occasionally put aside some time for bonding activities like Buzzfeed Party Quizzes which are really fun and help us bond and create a more harmonious and enjoyable atmosphere during cca!
What we can do better:
Next year, we could try to plan ahead better. This year, upcycling had the interest of selling compost to the school. However, due to lack of planning in advance, we failed to gauge that we had little to no time for that project, and hence the compost sales have to be pushed forward to next year.
Plan for 2023:
Term 1
Recycling Heroes (Jan - April)
Donate books to library
(TBC) CNY goodies/container collection
Term 2
Save That Pen collection
Easter Sale (fundraising)
Term 3
(TBC) Thrift Store 'i am'
Cafe collab (sell upcycled products)
Term 4
Fairprice Share-A-Textbook 2023
Donate refilled pens
Sem 1
Clothes donation
Clothes donation
Clothes from our clothes collection drive were sent to Vibrant Recycle for donation and recycling 🌱
CNY Container Donation 2022
CNY Container Donation 2022
Over 150 CNY containers were collected and sent over to the I'dECO Team of Yale-NUS 😎
Easter Sale
Easter Sale
We raised $240 from the Easter Sale🐣, which was used to purchase pen refills for our Save That Pen initiative
Sem 2
Learning About Compost
Learning About Compost
Under the guidance of Cui Fen, upcycling learnt about making compost from scratch, as well as how to sell compost
Friendship Bracelet Workshop
Friendship Bracelet Workshop
To commemorate International Friendship Day, we held a workshop on upcycling old/unused clothes to create friendship bracelets 👚
Fairprice Share-A-Textbook 2022
Fairprice Share-A-Textbook 2022
8 boxes of textbooks were donated
Donation of Pens to Global Village of Hope
Donation of Pens to Global Village of Hope
We donated a total of 351 pens from our 'Save That Pen Initiative' to Global Village of Hope ! The pens will be redistributed to underprivilaged children in Myanmar and Indonesia, in the December of 2022.
Why Upcycling?
Why Upcycling?
Being able to contribute tangibly to our society, through purpose-driven projects
Creative freedom to start initiatives
Being able to learn new things & skills (eg. teamwork, communication)
A very hands-on experience (interacting with people, & getting involved in projects)
Having fun working as a team & putting plans and proposals into action
Overall cool people in a cool team :0
2022 Sharings
2022 Sharings
Open House sharing
Focus Group Reallocation sharing
Learnings about Compost
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