Student Feddy B. Junsay Jr.

Date March 14, 2020

Title Bacolod Tay Tung High School

iCARE (I Commit to Act Responsibly for the Environment) and
CLAYGO (Clean As You Go) Programs:
A Case Study of Junior High School
on Proper Waste Management

Backgroun The environmental attitude of young people appears to be crucial as they

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ultimately play a direct role in providing knowledge-based solutions to
incoming environmental problems (Bradly et al., 1999; Eagles and Demare,
1999). School environmental programs, although addressed to students if
properly channel can also influence the environmental knowledge, attitude
and behavior of adults (parents, teachers and local community members)
through the process of intergenerational influence (Evans et al., 1996;
Ballantyne, 1998; Gallagher et al., 2000).

Every school generates waste arising from routine activities such as

classwork, sweeping, serving of food, and bush cutting. The common types of
solid wastes found in various schools in less-developed countries include
paper, grass, nylon (pure water bags and biscuits, lollipops, ice cream, and
sweet or candy wrappers), sugar cane, maize cobs, and groundnut shells.
Other forms of wastes may also be found on school premises, and these may
not have even been generated directly by pupils and teachers. Age, gender,
educational status, and the amount charged for waste collection services had
been identified as factors influencing solid waste management in highly
populated cities or urban areas in national or local communities and school
premises (Ajani, 2007). There is strong evidence that suggests that individual
or group awareness and attitudes towards waste generation and management is
critical in the effort to respond to the waste management challenges
(Kofoworola, 2007).

Some studies have failed to recognize how people can effectively

participate in waste management. A considerable amount of research has been
produced in the effects of waste management. However, little research was
produced regarding how the attitude of people can affect waste management.
Despite early researches about how attitude affects waste management, the
application of it towards achieving proper waste management remained
unclear. Hence, additional studies are needed to discover how attitude relates
to proper waste management. (Duan, 2005)

The purpose of this case study is to evaluate the students’ attitude on waste
management and the measures that can effectively improve on achieving the
sole purpose of waste management. In this study, the identification of the
several attitudes of students of Bacolod Tay Tung High School regarding
waste management is presented. This paper hopes to show the attitude of
junior high school students towards proper waste management and how it
affects them to have the responsibility of managing their waste. It will seek
answers on specific questions related to the study especially the factors that
contribute to the attitudes of the students regarding waste. Moreover, this
study will suggest or recommend new related programs for the school that can
benefit a stronger foundation with regards to waste management. It will
discuss matters on the present condition of waste management in the school
and how it can be improved so that these measures can be greatly observed by
the students who are currently admitted and future students who would like to
attend the school in the future

This endeavor is anchored on the environmentally significant behavior

theory. This theory explains the underlying reasons and certain ways of how
people behave toward the environment. It specifically focuses on the reasons
why humans act pro-environmentally that could later help the researchers
implement systems or programs that aim to change the environmentally
negative behavior to pro-environmental behavior. According to Stern (2000),
the environmentally significant behavior is any behavior that encouraged the
changes in the “availability of materials or energy from the environment or
alters the structure and dynamics of ecosystems or the biosphere itself” (Stern,
 2000, pp.408). Hence, any behavior that would result in the alteration of
availability of material or energy, or the stability of the ecosystem is perceived
as an environmentally significant behavior.

The case study pursues to provide answers to this query:

What are the negative and positive attitudes of Bacolod Tay Tung Junior High
School students towards proper waste management?

Evaluation Due to time constraints to conduct a thorough study on the Bacolod Tay
of the Case
Tung CLAYGO/iCARE programs, the researcher decided to choose 12 high
school students (Grades 7-10. 3 participants each level) as participants in
Focused Group Discussion (FGD) to discuss the issue on Proper Waste
Management. The researcher presented two questions only for the FGD and
these are: 

1. What are the negative attitudes you think are the reasons for the failure
of BTTHS in implementing proper waste management CLAYGO and
iCARE? 

2. What are the positive attitudes have you done so that the proper waste
management programs (CLAYGO/iCARE) of BTTHS will be
successful? (Framework: Programs, Persuasion, Intention) 

The researcher was able to determine how students respond to proper

waste management when it comes to their attitudes

Briefly here are the results: (Students’ perspective)

First Coding: Weak Implementation of CLAYGO/iCARE Programs, Less

Knowledge on Waste Management, Absence of School Trash Bins, Lack of
Discipline, Laziness, and Ignorance are the factors that affect proper waste
management in the school (BTTHS).
Second Coding: Highlighted the three categories, Programs, Persuasion
and Intention 

Programs
     Based on the answers of the participants during the interview, programs
such as iCARE (I Commit to Act Responsibly for the Environment) and
CLAYGO (Clean As You Go) urged them to participate in proper waste
management. Another participant said that one of the factors that drives him to
participate in proper waste management is during the iCARE program
wherein their class collects plastic bottles and delivers them directly to the
Student Council Organization (SCO). It is one of the programs that he wants
to continue so that the school can have responsible students participating in
proper waste management. Additionally, CLAYGO which was formed by the
Student Formation Office (SFO) and Eureka! Math and Science Club also
improves proper waste management in the school as it teaches the students to
be responsible for their own waste especially during recess and lunch breaks.
All in all, the interviewees’ stressed that they want to continue these programs
with strict implementation to suffice the need for proper waste management.

Persuasion
      Some participants said that their attitude towards waste management
comes from the persuasion of others especially their teachers. This particular
factor urges them to make their classrooms clean and to pick up pieces of
trash seen on the floor. One participant said that whenever the teacher gets
angry because of the dirty classroom, his classmates would pick up pieces of
trash found inside the room and empty the trash can found at the back of their
classroom. Moreover, another participant said that her classmates act
responsibly whenever their teacher reprimands them.
      
In a study done by psychologists at the University of California, Los
Angeles in the 1990s, they found out that people with power will always seek
more of the desirable things in life at the expense of their subordinates. This is
basically why students tend to obey their teachers when it comes to waste
management. Moreover, how the teachers deliver the message greatly affects
 persuasion in students to practice proper waste management. This was proven
in the study of Hovland, Janis, and Kelley (1953) as they stated that the source
of a persuasive message, the content of the message, and the characteristics of
the audience will influence the persuasiveness of a message. Additionally,
another participant said that they are persuaded to participate in proper waste
management whenever there are visitors coming to the school. Because of
this, she and her classmates tend to participate in cleaning their rooms and
hallways. All in all, persuasion makes them active participants for proper
waste management.

Implications: Researcher’s Perspective

After the researcher conducted FGD among participants, he found out that
the students have a positive attitude towards proper waste management and
they have the intention to participate in it. However, there are certain factors
and problems in the school that hinder their attitude towards the programs
implemented by the school. By having the FGD, these factors were found and
discovered. Most likely, the dominant reasons are lack of trash bins and the
lack of knowledge on waste management. Overall, the attitudes of Junior High
School students are interpreted as having a positive attitude towards proper
waste management but there are a lot of things to be done to achieve the NO
LITTER policy of the school and zero waste incidents. Moreover, the
dominant-negative attitudes or observations should be addressed.

Since proper waste management is not only the concern of the students but
Propose the whole stakeholders of the school community, the researcher will address
Solutions /
the proposed solutions to everybody. 
Changes

Administrators - provide support and guide students to be more exposed to

proper waste management by giving the school enough funds to help the
students improve their ways of achieving proper waste management which is
beneficial to the school and the totality of the development of its students.
Also, consider proper waste management concerns to be included in the
curriculum. It will provide a venue for environmental education as well as
increasing the opportunities for students to be motivated in practicing proper
waste management. They should also support programs and activities wherein
there is the encouragement of proper waste management for students to apply
what they have learned.

Teachers - Teachers should create lessons that can adhere to achieving proper
waste management in the school. Furthermore, they must plan activities that
would create a positive attitude in students to practice proper waste
management. Moreover, they can encourage students to used scratch papers in
answering so that limited waste on papers are generated.

Organization and Clubs - The organizations and clubs must serve as role
models in guiding the whole student body towards attaining proper waste
management. Furthermore, they can devise ways to help their peers in
achieving the right attitude towards waste management by giving programs
and activities related to it. They must have the responsibility to take care of
trashes left whenever there is a school activity or program held.

Parents - Parents should train their kids at home regardless if they have a
helper or not because at a young age, children will develop a keen sense of
responsibility in picking up their trashes and putting them in the right place.
They should also show support to the plans of the school especially programs
raising awareness on proper waste management. Moreover, they must
encourage their children to practice proper waste management so that having
it at school would not be difficult.

Students – they should fully take part in the proper waste management
movement and help collaboratively with the school. CLAYGO and iCARE
should be imposed diligently on them. Necessary reprimand will be given for
those erring students on waste management. They need to remember that
proper waste management is not the end of the solution; they should learn to
live more sustainably and practice waste reduction and prevention so that
obtaining an environmentally sustainable school place is achievable.
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