Amruta Behera's CAS Blog

CAS - Recycling and Trash to Art

WHAT DO I ASPIRE TO ACHIEVE FROM CAS THIS YEAR?

With the beginning of a new year, I hope to be more responsible and up to date with my CAS entries and performance. I want to take more initiative and be more organized.

 ENGAGING WITH AN ISSUE OF GLOBAL IMPORTANCE

This term along with Recycling as my Service, I will be starting a Creativity Group of my own called “Trash to art”. Both deal with one of major problems we encounter in our life today, the increase in pollution and wastage of valuable resources.

When we think of the word “recycling”, we automatically think of recycling paper. However, in Trash to Art I will be introducing the use of other types of objects and how recycling common household items can lead to the creation of appealing and useable items.

Deforestation is one of the key factors contributing to the green house effect and ultimately an increase in global warming. Cutting down trees means less carbon dioxide being absorbed from the atmosphere and oxygen produced. This increases the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and thus contributing to the greenhouse effect. Simultaneously rises the issue of increase in other waste material such as plastic bottles (coke, pepsi, mirinda), wine bottles, beer cans, tin cans, etc. So, with my Creativity and Service, I will be playing my part in the society to do whatever I can in eliminating waste and reusing items.

CONSIDERING THE ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF MY CAS ACTIVITY

While collecting paper for Recycling, we travel to many classes to collect the paper. Sometimes it can get very tiring, but instead of giving up we take small breaks in order to regain our strength and then continue collecting paper from every classroom. These taught me that although its hard, I must act with honesty and sincerity, and devote more strength to this Service. As I am one of the seniors in this recycling group I need to set an example for the juniors and help motivate them as well to work harder. So, from this term I will be more willing and take more initiative to help in Recycling.

For one of my final outcomes of my Creativity Group, I would like to stitch and design pencil cases, bags and handmade items along with my group, and present them in a form of an exhibition showcasing the work of the group throughout the semester.

I hope that this year of 2015 CAS will help me to understand myself and my surroundings more, in order to be a more global and open minded person. And to be more culturally and socially in sync with the world around me.