My Interests and Future Plan with the Environment

I am interested in environmental issues and how it has impacted our lives. I do not want to put a number on how long I have been concerned on such issues, as it does not really matter. What does matter, is how we as individuals, impacts the society and create change around us.

In recent years, I have paid attention towards the recycling system Indonesia has. It is not perfect, as people who intend to sort out their trash and recycle must collect them to the recycling bank. It is not an automated system, where people who wants to recycle just needs to throw them into the corresponding trash bins. Jakarta differentiates its bin into different color per trash category, however the trash often than not does not get recycled. Recyclables that get mixed with non-recyclable trash becomes tricky to recycle, especially if the trash becomes wet due to a leftover drink.

I am interested in such topics, and plan to figure out the way to solve this issue. I may not succeed on the first try, but I do want to be involved in changing the society’s behavior towards sorting out trash and recycling them. I am also sharing this idea in case someone wants to do something similar, because I believe that ideas should be shared more often in tackling environmental problems. Research towards environmental problem is already enrichment towards one’s knowledge, and sharing such knowledge is also beneficial in learning from each other in providing solutions towards the problems we want to tackle.