MHSA, in collaboration with the Social Policy Commission of KSU, have issued a project titled as "A Greener Blueprint’.
MHSA and KSU members presented this environmentally-friendly project, its objectives and importance, on quad on Thursday 12th October.
Through this campaign, both organisations strive to raise awareness about the issues revolving around waste in our country, with hopes of decreasing excessive landfill use and helping in building a more sustainable waste management system.
MHSA, with the help of KSU participated in the National Clean-up Day at Chadwick Lakes on September 16th. This event was a nationwide effort in cleaning up our island and the desired results were in fact reached.
MHSA explained how despite the improvements we have made to increase as much awareness as possible on reusing and recycling, there is always more that we can do so as to make plastic waste collection more efficient. At the same time, as a country we also produce tonnes of waste annually thus, more specific policies need to be planned out and implemented in order to make waste prevention a feasible work frame.
KSU Social Policy Commission explains how the council believes that this is a very relevant and important campaign especially when considering that nationwide we only recycle 20% of the waste we collect. Plastic takes hundreds of years to degenerate ad therefore minimising the use of plastic bottles can leave a huge impact and slowly we can start diminishing our footprint. It takes only couple of seconds to break routine habits and recycle.​​​​
Ultimately, the goal of this public awareness campaign is to contribute to the national effort being currently undertaken in promoting local waste management up in the hierarchy, whilst hoping that this effort ripples out into the community to serve for the common good.