Benedict Koh Wee Seng (BIZ), Heng Chen Kai, Darren (SOC), Lee Wei, David (SOC), Ng Shi Hui (FASS), Wang Wei Yu (FASS)
Academic Advisor: Ms. Sadaf Ansari
The proliferation of ecommerce has contributed directly to an increasing trend in packaging waste and its resulting water and carbon emissions. Given that RVRC residents do not reuse ecommerce cardboard boxes, our objective was to implement a two-part system to encourage its diversion away from the waste/recycle stream, into the reuse stream. First, we set up collection points at carefully chosen locations. We conducted a poster and digital publicity campaign to raise awareness about our initiative, with a focus on Tuesday and Thursday – parcel collection days. Within 3 weeks, we collected more than 7kg of reusable cardboard boxes. For the second part of our project , we established a collaboration with an external partner. The collected ecommerce cardboard boxes were handed over to them for reuse. Our project results demonstrate that a significant number of ecommerce cardboard boxes in RVRC can be successfully redirected towards reuse, thereby minimising their environmental footprint.