Students for Sustainability (S square) aspires to drive a positive change towards sustainability at KAUST. This newly formed student group has three main missions: to raise awareness, to collaborate and to take actions at the student level.
This week, we need you! On Tuesday, December 10, we will be hosting two brainstorming sessions. Together, we want to ideate innovative and creative solutions to tackle the single use of plastic at KAUST.
You feel engaged? You already have some ideas? You are curious to learn more and make the difference? join and register here for one of the two discussion sessions:
- Tuesday, December 10 (12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. )
- Tuesday, December 10 (6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
Please register here. Seats are limited.
Your registration will be confirmed by a calendar invitation. Giveaways to help you eliminate the single use of plastics will be provided.
Looking forward to your contribution. Should you have any questions, please contact us at s.square@kaust.edu.sa.
Students for Sustainability
Aspired to Drive Positive Change Towards Sustainability
1 comment
I will not be able to join you guys, just one note: I have been to Allen Institute Seattle and the VIS conference in Vancouver in October and in both locations all the plastic that was around looked like our plastic but in fact it was all compostable stuff, probably fabricated out of starch or something. But it looked like these transparent plastic glasses we have here as well, it looked like the black forks and knives as we know from our restaurants at the disco square. But it all was just a compostable material that you throw into compost bin together with rest of the food! We should have the same here!
Bottom line: sometimes educating people is less effective than changing another enviromental condition as exchanging plastic with compostable material. I suggest this topic not to be entirely left out of the discussion.
Great topic btw!
Ivan