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Environment Conservation Fund (ECF) Visualising Big Waster

The Environment Conservation Fund Visualising Big Waster for Schools Programme was a 12-month project with a 3-months long trial period involving the school’s participation in using the designated rubbish bags.

Objectives

The purpose of the project was to benefit the school in practicing for the upcoming municipal solid waste charging scheme. It aimed to assist both the school and students to practice the reduction of solid waste while visualizing its progress toward solid waste reduction and familiarizing participants with the Pay As You Throw scheme.

The program was comprised of two components:

  1. “DUMP LESS, SAVE MORE” Inter-Classroom Competition

An online platform for students to record the number of designated rubbish bag used during the trial period was designed. Each classroom was allotted with a virtual fund of HKD100 on the platform, in which students could use the fund to purchase designated rubbish bags. Each classroom was given the actual designated rubbish bags for use during the trial period. The goal was to minimize the cost used from the fund to win the competition through the following:

  • Taught students to practice the reduction of waste and recycle effectively;
  • Gave students a hands-on experience to manage the pay as you throw scheme;
  • Students to select appropriate garbage plastic bag size;
  • Monitored its usage to make real-time reduction in waste production.
  1. “DIY RUBBISH BIN” Competition

To promote the use of smaller size designated rubbish bags, students are invited to design a small size rubbish bin idea (3L to 10L) that makes beneficial use of upcycled waste items.

During the program, a floor scale and a large touch screen monitor are provided for the participating schools to monitor the progress.

港大學研究生堂王賡武講堂路線圖

Map of Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, Graduate House, HKU

 

公共交通至香港大學   Transportation to HKU:

1)  巴士:

  1. a) 金鐘太古廣場外:23、40、40M
  2. b) 中環交易廣場:4、7、91

請在「香港大學西閘,薄扶林道」或「香港大學東閘、般咸道」下車。

1) By Bus:

  1. a) N 23, 40, 40M from Admiralty outside Pacific Place
  2. b) N 4, 7, 91 from Exchange Square at Central.

Alight at the

bus-stop

in front of the “West Gate” in front of Haking Wong Building on

Pokfulam Road or the “East Gate” on Bonham Road.

在「香港大學西閘」下車   From HKU West Gate:

 

在「香港大學東閘」下車   From HKU East Gate:

3) 的士

3) By Taxi:

 

4.) 駕駛指南去香港大學研究堂 DRIVER’S DIRECTION TO HKU GRADUATE HOUSE

由旭龢道路進入大學道(時租泊車)ENTRANCE FROM KOTEWALL ROAD TO UNIVERSITY DRIVE (HOURLY PAY CARPARK)

進入大學道 ENTRANCE TO UNIVERSITY DRIVE

由大學道到研究生堂 DIRECTION FROM UNIVERSITY DRIVE TO HKU GRADUATE HOUSE

Fair-Trade Game admin 2018-06-15T09:44:01+00:00

Fair-Trade Game

The concept of fair-trade is widely publicized but few can fully appreciate the concept of trade behind without being involved in the process. As such, to fully appreciate the concept and the intra-generation equity principle embedded within, the students will learn by participating in a mock fair-trade game. The game takes form of a role playing game depicting the chain of effect that each role signifies. This exercise will enable the students to experience the difficulties and needs in exercising fair-trade by first hand making it an innovative approach for understanding.

The aim of the game is for players to understand some of the pressures facing poor farmers by trading under a non fair-trade system (no guarantee price due to fluctuation in world market price, unregulated high interest rate loan, once-off trading relationship between producers and buyers). The students will naturally learn the concept of fair trade and how it is still possible to be poor even if the farmers work very hard. There will be five groups representing different roles presented in the following table.Fair-trade game: roles and responsibilities
Role Responsibilities
Game leader

Teachers will guide the students through the process of making decisions (i.e. source supplier selection, e-platform trading) and support their moral and character development in parallel.

 

Farming families

A group of student is designated as local mushroom farmers that maintain livelihood through selling a produce (e.g. mushrooms).

 

Money Lenders
Students play the role as the bank to lend money at high interest rate to the farming families and are designated to oversee the “currency” in the game.

 

At the beginning of the game, each Farming Family will be given resources to grow a produce (e.g. mushroom – a suitable produce will replace mushroom depending on weather) but the amount may vary between families to reflect difference in resource distribution. During the game, there is a trading session each week in which the Cost-of-living Collectors will collect varying amount of money from the Farming Families for schools fees and/or other living fee. The Farming Families will sell the mushroom they grow to the Market Trader to earn sufficient money to pay for the bills. If the Farming Families do not make sufficient money, the Money Lender will lend money to them a high interest rate. The Game Leader will introduce different market fluctuation scenarios to the Farming Families to adjust the difficulty of the game on a weekly basis. The transaction will be recorded virtually on a web-based system in the form of an e-trading platform. Players will engage with the e-trading platform frequently, as a means of record keeping and a progression check.

Cost-of-living Collectors

Students are designated to represent vendors of food, clothing, electricity etc. who sells goods and services to the farming families.
Market Traders Students are designated for buying the organic produce from the Farmer Families and exchanging goods to other students.

Green Twelve Night – Tongue Twist Challenge admin 2018-06-15T09:42:41+00:00

Green Twelve Night – Tongue Twist Challenge

An Energy Saving Tongue Twister competition with each line to be revealed over 12 days. This can be an ideal campaign to raise awareness during the festive season such as Christmas which coincides with the Twelve Night theme. Students can also be involved in creating their own slogan to win this competition!

 

Example: “Whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be hot; we’ll weather the weather whatever the weather. Whether we like it or not.”.