Some people just don't know how to recycle

An excerpt from an email from the NUS Office of Environmental Sustainability:

To: All NUS Faculty, Staff Members and Students

Earth Day Highlight: Which Faculty recycles best? Latest survey results tell it all.

1. A survey on the contamination of recycling bins was conducted on 3/2/09 and 12/3/09. This contamination survey measures the presence of wastes that cannot be recycled or recyclable wastes that were thrown into the wrong bins.

2. This survey was conducted to measure the impacts of the revamp of the NUS recycling infrastructure that Office of Estate and Development, Office of Environmental Sustainability and NUSSU Student Against Violation of the Earth (SAVE) embarked in November 2008. The changes implemented included adding additional instructional labels (the types of wastes which can and cannot be recycled) on top of recycling bins and partnering every recycling station with a general waste bin.

3. We are pleased to announce that after such improvements, there was low contamination rate throughout most recycling bins in campus –correct recyclables collected in most recycling bins are above 75% of the total volume of items collected.

4. Listed below are the performance of the various faculties in the contamination of recycling bins survey (in descending order):

a. Faculty of Arts and Social Science (most segregated)

b. Faculty of Science

c. Faculty of Business

d. Faculty of Engineering ( highest level of contamination)

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I guess the facts speak for themselves.

But I still like Techno Edge's Western Food and Indonesian Panggang. =)