“Anya? Kasano en ngay dayta?” was my reaction when our adviser Mrs.

Rubelyn
Paltican announced that the trash bins in our classroom will be removed. Our trashes will not be
collected anymore. Upon hearing this announcement, so many thoughts keep running in my
mind. Where will these trashes be placed? Until when will our trash bins be absent in our
classroom? Pity for the cleaners, how about the wastes every dismissal? Why would the school
or the company do such action?
And then realization hits me, whose fault is it? Is it the school? Or the company? No, It’s
the students who don’t apply their knowledge on how to segregate their wastes. Even if the
students are knowledgeable in segregating wastes, most of them lacks application. Seeing those
wrappers, papers, plastics, and even biodegradables mixed with each other glooms me.
Especially when we are the cleaners. I just can’t imagine myself segregating others’ wastes but
what can I do? We are the cleaners and we are obliged to segregate those wastes. It is really
unfair.
Right after that realization, I then agreed with the school of removing the trash bins of
some classrooms where students don’t segregate their wastes. As for the wrappers, our teacher
instructed us to make an eco-bottle, it is where our wrappers will go. It would be a part of
students’ discipline also, for them to realize their mistakes, and to take action in segregating their
wastes.
Self-discipline is what the students really need. Yes, they know how to segregate wastes,
and we are trained for that but why do students still not segregate their waste?

- Caren Jhoy Tufay