I joined the program, Master Recycler Vancouver<\/a>, in 2015.\u00a0 The program was hosted\u00a0 by the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation’s (SPEC)<\/a> , and participants are trained to become an expert about reducing wastes from the community by the field experts in the recycling field and community members who are active in zero waste movement.\u00a0 We went to field trips, different recycling facilities in Metro Vancouver (place learning), had guest speaker with the filmmaker of the “Just Eat It”<\/a> , even we tried to taste fly larvae.\u00a0 Waste audit, scaling and recording own waste, was a good experimental learning and method to give awareness and connection of the topic.\u00a0 Also, it is easy to see the result, whether we reduce the own waste in weeks, by number.\u00a0 Therefore, a lot of classmates in the program seemed getting motivation more towards zero waste.<\/p>\n As 30 hours outreach in the community was required for the certificate, I did with two colleges as an Educational Outreach Team (masterrecycler.edu@gmail.com if you would like to contact us) of the program, to the public school events.\u00a0 We did not only display some panels nor give a lecture about the effect of plastic in environment, but also walk around in the “plastic bag monster”, I was in the plastic bag suit.\u00a0 It was attractive for any age groups and it induced the conversation about plastic bag problems.\u00a0 As I had to give the information and answer any questions in the plastic bag monster, I felt that I had a responsibility to the students and I tried to remember what I learned in the program.\u00a0 Teaching and sharing the knowledge to others are one of the best ways of learning.<\/p>\n – Research in Environmental Geography,GEOG\u00a0419, with a community partner, individual research\u00a0 –<\/p>\n It was very structured course studying how to research and\u00a0 publish research paper in academia: for example, I learned ethic review (I got TCPS2 Core Certificate in January 2016), literature review, and etc.\u00a0 At the same time I could connect the outside of school by interviewing.\u00a0 It was very challenging since I needed to do every process by myself.\u00a0 I learned also technology part (google slide) for a presentation.\u00a0 The community partner was very flexible.\u00a0 Therefore, I could focus the topic that I was interested in at that time, how small business can improve their zero waste (how they can be in the circular economy).\u00a0 The paper is Recommendations for Independently-owned Vancouver Cafes to Achieve Zero Waste.<\/a><\/p>\n – Environmental Psychology, PSYC321- research on campus as a team –<\/p>\n We did three-week-data collection and statistical analysis<\/span> as a team on The Impact of Mirrors on Sustainable Waste Behavior<\/a>.\u00a0 The benefit of working as a team is sharing each knowledge and opinion, and making better paper than individually research.\u00a0 Collecting data, weighing garbage in each bin by category, was a dirty task but it was a good experience to see the real situation.\u00a0 There have been a lot of research projects about environmental related topics on campus.\u00a0 You can check at SEEDS Sustainability Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/collaborativesustainabilityedu\/files\/2017\/01\/12985361_10153613799988014_7720237925320539095_n.jpg\")
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