Research Methodology Plan

My group decided to use three Research Methodologies for this project

- Case Studies (Done by every person in the group)

- Interview (Interviewing housewives because they are the personas that we chose, Done by Amber)

- Survey (Done by Felicia Wuisan using survey monkey)

Emphatizing on being a foreigner.

Nowadays, recycle has been an important issue yet few people realized it. Take my country as an example, people do not really do recycle in fact they will just throw trash wherever they like. House waste, trash, industrial waste are not organized at all. Law do not work as they supposed to. All this things cause the flood in the raining season and when i say flood, it is really really flooding until the point where it cause illness and in rundown places they even have to use floating boat because of the depth.

When i moved to Singapore, it is really different compared to my country. The law is way more straight compared to my country's therefore i do not see trash thrown on street or places, everything is more organized and cleaner. The thing is since it is different compared to my country, it is really hard for me to understand about the recycling thing. I am not used to the idea of it. I do not really understand which are the things that could be recycled and which ones could not. Like the plastics, i just knew that not all the plastics can be recycled. It takes hundred years for some plastic to breaks down. In my apartment, i am only given one bin where i throw all the trash and every twice a week, a house helper took and throw it away for me. Thus, i do not really take my time to recycle things. As far as i know, i only recycle when there was an education seminar in school where you had to bring waste that can be recycled and recycle it in school or maybe in art class, you made an art out of thrown stuff.

All in all, eventhough now my environment is cleaner and more organised, i still found it hard because of the lack of knowledge about it.

Benefit of Recycling

There are benefits found in recycling, such as:
- Saves energy, Making new production needs more energy than reusing it.
- Helps keep the environment for the future
- Reduces greenhouse effect that cause the global warming
- Prevents air pollution
- Reduces the need of new raw materials
- Conserves natural resources

Why People Don't Recycle

These days people don't recycle much, in fact they rarely recycle, only few people who are committed to environmental scene who recycle. The biggest question to this statement is 'Why?'. There are millions answer to this question, starting on how people nowadays are busy, or maybe lazier, or in other case they don't understand about what or how to recycle. And i think the biggest problem with people nowadays when they are asked why is they always said, "I don't need to, others will". This is the biggest problem because when most of people say this then who is going to do it? Moreover, some people do not know much about recycle or what things to recycle or how to recycle. People aren't given enough information on what is recycle. Only few like students or on work scheme who are given like seminar about recycle and the important thing about it.

All in all, much people do not recycle because they don't understand and always avoiding because of many reasons.