Ho Rui Hern Jonathan (FoS/SCI1), Ho Shu Xuan (FASS/ARS1), Lee Wan Yong (FASS/ARS1), Pang Hao Cher (SDE/ARK1), Tan Jin Da (FoS/SCI1)
Academic Advisor: Sadaf Ansari | Student Fellow: Sean Poon
From our research, there were around 158,600 tonnes of textile waste generated in Singapore in 2014, of which only 11% are recycled. Our project investigates the recycling habits of RVRC students and actions on their unwanted clothes. Our pre-drive survey has obtained 50 student responses and showed that there are about 20-40% of students who wear less than 40% of their clothings. Also, 92% and 45% of respondents respectively are willing to donate and exchange unwanted clothes. Through this project, we focus on raising awareness of the importance of recycling unwanted clothes in RVRC. We conducted a clothes swapping drive on 18 February 2016 and 30-40 people turned up for the event. From the survey, we learnt that there is awareness present on reusing or recycling of clothes. However, we found that this does not necessarily translate to action. This may be due to the lack of incentives present.
Keywords: Culture and Lifestyle Trends, Responsible Consumption, Waste Management, Reusing, Clothing waste, recycling