About myself

 

 Name : Aisyah Hanani Binti Abdul Rahman

Matric Number : 2012876

UNGS 1201 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: ISSUES, PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES SEMESTER 2, 2020/2021 SECTION 11

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL

Before I started to learn about sustainable development I did not realise its importance, to the environment and my life as a human. I always thought achieving sustainable development is something hard to do, it costs a lot of things, money, energy, and time. I don’t think I can manage to succeed with all the activities at the same time achieving sustainable development in my life. Can I do a lot of activities and spend my time sorting waste materials, reusing reusable stuff, and practicing good waste management. But I know and I learned during this course it is not all about theories, it is all about how I know and I practice, I make it happen. Even my lecturer said I should just start with something simple that even I can do with my capability.

Hence, I decided to take my first step in achieving sustainable development, which I have this idea of what I can do at home. So, what I love to do during online learning and remote teaching and learning, I also love online shopping, but the only bad things with this, every parcel that arrives at my house comes with bubble wrap and boxes to protect the stuff or product inside, so I am thinking should I just throw away this bubble wrap and boxes, or should I reuse it for a further purpose, maybe I can reuse it later on when I want to send or post stuff to friends. Therefore, I started to keep every bubble wrap from the parcel that arrived with it every time I made an online purchase. Unfortunately, reusing stuff or keeping reusable stuff cause you to provide space in keeping it, but I keep stacking my bubble wrap, it becomes so much that I need to fold it every time and keep it under my makeup table, funny how I did not realise this coming, but after trying I finally understand that every waste management system needs to come with a specifically provided place to do it, even for recycling, we need to have a certain place to put our recycle bin and recycled or reusable stuff. This is one of the challenges.

After I tried to start reusing reusable thing like, bubble wrap and boxes from my online purchases I realise it takes some space to keep all off the stuff, although I first thought that keeping all of these things are unnecessary, but later on when I want to post thing to my friends I feel like it is easier because I do not need to buy a new bubble wrap or boxes things because I already keep it in my room. Hence, I feel like this whole experience is teaching me that if I want to practice sustainable value I should be prepared and ready to take some challenge because it is something that should be practice first, then later in the future we will see the benefit just like what I felt every time I reuse stuff that I did not throw, I think it is reducing the cost of spending money to buy it all new again. That is why I think if everyone can practice even a small act of sustainability their life will become so much better.