Green Drink's session this month features Marcus Tay who will give a talk entitled "NUS Recycling story - Using human biases to encourage green behaviour".
Many environmentalists believe that the way to get more people to behave in an environmentally-friendly lifestyle is through sharing for more information on the climate crisis.
Marcus Tay will share the NUS recycling experience where they employ the understanding of human tendancies to tackle recycling contamination - the first step of a series of improvements that results in a increase of recycling amount from about 80 tonnes a year previously to about 120 tonnes in just 7 months. He will go on to show how to employ the same strategies to attract viewership in emails to the entire school.
Hope to see you there!
In his talk, Marcus looks at the following:
- Report finds contamination in most recycling bins/ Grace Chua recycling third class article
- What do U think should be done?
- Education? But how to educate?
About Marcus Tay
One of the happiest period of Marcus Tay's life was working at Shanghai Roots and Shoots from 2006 to July 2007 where he was the project coordinator for Eco office Programme( One of the 12 finalists in Volvo Adventure 2008) and the School Organic Garden Project (the garden in Qingpu High school won the "China Youth Toyota Environment-protection Award").
Since joining NUS Office of Environmental Sustianability in 2009, he has also helped drive "Waste Minimization through Recycling " project which won NUS Excellance Day Outstanding IQ Project in 2010.
Getting a good grasp of brown issues through a degree in Environmental Engineering and getting an exposure to green issues through volunteering with Raffles Museum of Biodiversity, Marcus Tay feels that he has learnt enough of the problems and is now keenly looking for solutions in the fields of applied pyschology/behavourial economics.
Time: 8-10pm
Venue: to be confirmed
Website: Green Drinks Facebook Group
Contact: olivia@greendrinks.org
