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+ | <p>In our sharing session, we have designed a presentation section with games related to recycling and enzymes, providing them with comprehensible powerpoint and education materials. We have organized a Kahoot session with them so that students can refresh their memories. On top of that, the Kahoot results can serve as a reference to determine the effect of our presentation on students’ knowledge on plastic pollution and our project. </p> | ||
+ | <p>After the interview, we have contacted Plastic Free Seas for possible collaborations. We had a meeting with their director and shared some of our newest survey data with them to seek their advice on how to improve students’ plastic usage through social media and our sharing session. </p> | ||
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+ | <p>In our interview with the director and co-founder of Plastic Free Seas— Ms. Dana Winograd, we have consulted her advice on the content of our sharing session and educational materials. </p> | ||
+ | <p>Dana said that across Hong Kong, there are more than 1000 people actively participating in beach cleanups. However, more than 5 million plastic wastes are washed onto shores every day. Therefore, with the situation of plastic pollution being out of control, she suggested that we should not promote our chimeric proteins as a solution for plastic pollution. This is due to the fact that our enzyme is not yet mature enough to initiate large scale enzymatic degradation of PET bottles.</p> | ||
+ | <p>In our education materials, she advised that we could promote the 4Rs (Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) as these are the factors that students can work on in real life while what happens in the recycling facilities are less relatable to them. The speed of humans throwing plastic away will always be faster than plastics being recycled. As a result, we should educate people on how to solve the origin of the plastic problem as well. </p> | ||
+ | <p>As students may not be confident in Hong Kong’s recycling system, Dana believed that we could use our proposed recycling system involving the enzyme we created to change this. We can introduce our enzymes to show the students that recycling technologies are improving everyday.</p> | ||
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+ | <p>We have added a 4Rs section in our educational PowerPoint and booklet to make our project more relatable to students and encourage them. Additionally, we have put together interactive activities such as asking students to name plastic alternatives such as stainless steel straws and reusable shopping bags to encourage the use of such products.</p> | ||
+ | <p>Furthermore, we have reached out to New Life Plastic which is a local recycling plant in Hong Kong, targeting the recycling of PET and HDPE plastics. Through our meeting, we obtained information regarding the implementation of our research and learned more about how to make our project more practical and accessible. A visit will be placed when the facilities in the recycling plant are all settled in the near future.</p> | ||
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