Di NabubuLOOK

Promoting Proper Waste Disposal among PSHS-MC

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What is Di NabubuLOOK?

Di NabubuLOOK is a community project that aims to help fellow PSHS-MC students and staff in maintaining the cleanliness of the school grounds, and to raise awareness and encouragement towards proper waste management. In our efforts, the current trash bins were relocated to observe proper waste segregation standards and guides were made to help the community better understand how to dispose properly. Furthermore, a new batch of colored trash bins were ordered to solve the school's shortage in trash bins.

Our Community

Philippine Science High School - Main Campus

PSHS-MC is a science high school located in Agham Road, Diliman, Quezon City. With over 1,000 students, it is the premier science high school in the Philippines. It is the high school attended by the members of the project.

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Our Mission

Identification

Identify the issues of the current waste management system in PSHS-MC.

Awareness

Raise awareness of proper waste disposal among members of the PSHS-MC community.

Cleanliness

Promote cleanliness and good waste segregation habits within the campus of PSHS-MC

Our Implementation

Trash Bin Profiling

In February of 2023, we went around the Science and Humanities Building (SHB) to inspect the trash cans. We wanted to find any problems with the trash can management.

Needs Assessment Survey

We interviewed key members of the janitorial unit, EAPWM, and former CamCom to better understand the situation regarding waste segregation in the campus.

Implementation

Using the information we gathered from the Needs Assessment Survey, we came up with solutions such as segregation guide making and following up on the trash bin orders.

Trash Bin Monitoring

We monitored the trash bins and the type of trash being thrown in them before and after we conducted out project implementation.

Our Results

Trash Bin Profiling

From our survey, we found instances of areas lacking certain colors of bins, small pails being used as makeshift bins, and bins with mismatched covers. We showed these to the EAPWM and janitorial unit for our project implementation.

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Needs Assessment Survey

Student Survey

Surveyed Students on the main causes of improper waste segregation
Results:
- Students: main causes of improper waste management were a lack of discipline, a difficulty in waste segregation, and a shortage of trash cans.
- Trash cans should be maintained in their aspects of color, label, and segregation guide to facilitate proper waste disposal.

Interviews with key people

Conducted interviews with the EAPWM and janitors on our survey and bin profiling results.
Results:
- EAPWM: one of the causes could be Pisay culture not putting much importance on waste management
- Janitors: due to a lack of trash bins after the pandemic, waste segregation and looking for a trash bin became much harder

Implementation

After the needs assessment, two main causes were determined: student discipline and overall lack of trash bins. These are the backbone of most of the other symptoms of waste management problems, such as irregular spacing and locations, improper throwing and littering, etc.

The second is necessary in order for the first to become a reality: it would be much simpler to get people to follow rules if systems were in place to make this easier for them. In order to improve the system, we pushed for more trash bins in the school and added helpful labels throughout the SHB.

Trash Bin Monitoring

Finally, two observational surveys were conducted in order to assess the effectiveness of the changes in the trash segregation system. These were done in places in the school with the most traffic, which are the dining tables in the Back Lobby (BLOB) and the halls outside the library.

In the initial observational study, it was observed that people were mixing up the trash in some bins. For example, plastic food wrapper and chopsticks were thrown in both the green and black trash bins. This improved, most notably for wax-lined paper cups, in the final observation.

Pre-Implementation monitoring

Post-Implementation monitoring

Our Takeaways

Communication

The project required constant communication with the EAPWM and relevant persons. We needed to make sure that our ideas and proposals were communicated properly and efficiently.

Teamwork

Every single person in the group played a key role in bringing this project to fruition, and in making Pisay more aware of waste management. We were able to achieve our goals only because we had good teamwork and cooperation.

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Your challenge!

Now it's your turn! You can continue this project and take initiative to make the campus a cleaner and better place.

We are counting on you to do what is best for the environment and to keep maintaining the waste disposal plans from the EAPWM committee.

We believe that is through students and young leaders that share the same advocacies for the waste management system in PSHS-MC that will make the effort to further improve the system for the benefit of future generations.

Meet our team.

Hello! We are Dylan Dalida, Lucas Agcaoili, Gene Calubaquib, Therd Dollison, and James Tiu.

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