Every Thursday this past year at Yew Tee Primary School, class representatives took recyclables from their classes to recycling bins, where student leaders weighed the recyclables. The classes that collected the most recyclables at the end of the term were given a certificate in recognition of their efforts. As a result of the friendly competition, 104kg of plastics was collected through the programme from March to June. The plastics were given to non-profit organisation Ground-Up Initiative.
"We make recycling more fun by turning it into a competition," said Ms Joyce Ng, the teacher in charge of the environmental club co-curricular activity at the school. The project was one of several environmental initiatives at Yew Tee Primary School, which was among the winners at the 2025 School Green Awards. In 2025, it donated 60 packets of leafy greens such as lettuce that were grown under the school's hydroponics programme to the school's canteen vendors and cleaners and the Limbang Active Ageing Centre.
"I felt happy because the people who received the vegetables were happy," said Primary 5 pupil Lim Zhi Ning, 11, who participated in the hydroponics programme. "We feel proud that what we grow can be given to others."
Over in the east, students from Yusof Ishak Secondary School distributed vegetables harvested from its hydroponics and vegepods, such as kai lan, to the roughly 200 residents in the Punggol West community.
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