How to manage school's waste

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  As we all know that garbage or waste is able to make our environment looks dirty and uncomfortable. The large-scale of waste also create unhealthy environment and unpleasant smell. There are two types of waste; they are organic and non-organic waste. Organic waste is a waste which is easily to be separated by bacteria and microbe, for example: remaining food, fruits, and vegetables. While non-organic waste is hard to be separated, for example: plastic, glass bottle, cardboard, used iron.

  At this moment, I will discuss the wastes that are produced by the students of SMAK Kolese Santo Yusup Malang (Saint Joseph Catholic Senior High School), or many people in Malang called it as SMA Hua-Ind or KOSAYU. I am one of the students here in KOSAYU. SMAK Kolese Santo Yusup Malang consists of thousands students plus the teachers and staffs. The amount of waste, of course, is abundantly produced. A large amount of waste needs a better way to manage them, if it doesn’t those wastes will create a severe pollution at school’s environment.

  There are some ways on how to manage waste at SMAK Kolose Santo Yusup Malang:

  1. Providing two types of dustbin which differentiate between organic and non-organic-garbage. Actually, providing two types of dustbin has been done for long time, but students are having less attention about it. Because the students’ lack of attention to the using of organic and non-organic dustbin, they often discard the wastes without paying any attention to the type of the waste, for example: they don’t dispose the organic waste in organic dustbin, but the dispose it in non-organic dustbin. That’s why, the awareness of students are really required.

  2. Non-organic garbage is coming from plastic bottles, used paper, and used can. The garbage will be useful if it is transformed to be creative things, such as flower from used paper or used can, bag from used plastic, etc. Besides, we can apply the used things for class accessory or for the decoration in the school events.

  3. However, to make all of that happened; it needs a big support from school, like adding some lesson that has relation with environment and creativity in its curriculum. By having deep understanding on how to take care our environment, it automatically will open the students’ mind on how to manage the waste so that it can be useful and help to preserve our environment. Like I said before that we can transform the used things to be something useful, such as: bag from used plastic or paper, instead of disposing them. If we have already made a many handcrafts from used things, we can sell those handcrafts in school event, like school’s performing arts or PELANGI BANGSAKU. Plus, we also need to create such an art competition which the students must create handcrafts that have economic value.  to become the useful things will increase. Besides, school needs to prepare one special room to keep and collect the student’s art works from used things. It is important to show to the public that the students of SMAK Kolese Santo Yusup Malang are not only great in academic subject, but they also have a great By doing this, the students’ interest in converting the waste creativity.

  “LET’S KEEP ON WORKING AND KEEP ON SPIRIT”

  
  

  

  
  
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