Report on Collected Plastic Bottles from Kampung AB

     As a continuation to the recycling project from the last semester, this semester the Greenpulse committee had placed all collection boxes on every single floor in the AB Residential College on the 20th of September 2010.      The project was a delayed due to the difficulties in accumulating the boxes necessary since much of [...]

Greenpulse 2010/11

To Nature’s Beat. The Greenpulse website has been idle without any  updates for a while and I am really sorry about that but we are still moving on to keep the ‘fire’ burning. Before we proceed, I have to say I really appreciate and thank all the efforts and contributions from the Greenpulse committee from [...]

Last Report on the Recycling Project for the Semester

We have just about wrapped up our activities for this semester. Much needs to be done as we prepare to launch our first official recruitment drive. For our final collection of plastic bottles, a total of RM25.60 was paid to Greenpulse for collecting 128 kilogrammes of plastic bottles. By the way, the last post apparently [...]

Reported on Collected Plastic Bottles from Kampung AB 3

Blocks Girl’s Boy’s A 169 0 B 155 177 C 169 50 D 285 1 E 171 84 F 234 14 G 207 28 H 110 107 Total 1500 461 This will be the last collection of plastic bottles at Kolej Kediaman AB this semester. There are two reasons, namely the upcoming final examinations and [...]

Reported on Collected Plastic Bottles from Kampung AB 2

This is the concluding report to the plastic bottle collection carried out on the 1st of March 2010 led by Pang See Min. Collection on the 1st of March Blocks Girl’s Boy’s A 141 125 B 228 170 C 158 104 D 186 0 E 234 31 F 215 120 G 136 94 H 41 [...]

Reported on Collected Plastic Bottles from Kampung AB

On the 22nd of January 2010, we had placed all collection boxes on every floor in Kampung AB. After 16 days, which was the 8th of February 2010, we collected all the plastic bottles students had dropped into the collection boxes and below are the results in number of units. Blocks Girl’s Boy’s A 191 [...]

The Recycling Bins for Plastic Bottles Unleashed!

The box above is a culmination of nearly 5 month’s worth of planning and execution. On the 22nd of January, Pang See Min, grand chieftain of the soon-to-be legendary recycling project team, led a dozen students in an ambitious effort to place a cardboard box with the bottom taped-shut and the lids-taped up.

Trash Sampling: Final Report.

The winner of the most unique item students throw away. The following report was written by Pang See Ming, the director of UMS Greenpulse’s recycling project. This report was first sent to me sometime at the beginning of my exams, so I have been dragging my feet over editing it (Please don’t fire me, I [...]

Recycling handphones

Recently, in my Environmental Chemistry & Chemodynamics presentation, I took part in a slideshow regarding lead pollution. While doing research on the mitigation measures of this issue, I realised that not only plastic bottles, glass, aluminium can, and scrap steel are being recycled, but handphones as well! (OK, maybe I’m just too ‘Sakai’. Lol). Nokia [...]

Trash Sampling, Part 3

So the fourth day of sampling on the 10th of October turned out to be a wonderful night for picking through trash. There is nothing more satisfying than realising your task will finally end and you won’t have to sift through somebody else’s waste stream for the next few months.