Students Consciousness Towards Littering in Pacific...

STUDENT CONSCIOUSNESS TOWARDS LITTERING IN PAU CAMPUS A paper Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the subject HE 116.1 Academic English By Jacinta Kaupa Aim : The aim of this survey was to find out how conscious the students are towards littering. Introduction Pacific Adventist University is an institution where people from all over the Pacific, Papua New Guinea and other parts of the world come to learn and get educated. Indeed it is the most beautiful place in Papua New Guinea as most critics say. This is because of the landscape and the well preserved lawn with the variety of birds and the lakes. However, it is not as beautiful as many people think when speaking of littering. There are†¦show more content†¦The behavior of the students’ consciousness towards littering in the campus is not really getting out of hand. Not all students have the â€Å"don’t care attitude â€Å"as the result is stating. Students’ falls into two different categories. There are students’ who have the heart to keep their study environment clean and there are those who do not. Those that practice littering have a fair idea that it is wrong. But yet they tend do it without thinking.The next paragraph will describe further on such behavior of the students’. According to the result everybody is trying to say that they do not want littering. For the positive statements they are responding positively and for the negative statement they are responding negatively. Students’ may not want to discard rubbishes like piece of paper or an empty packet of something anywhere, but apparently they do. This may happen due to laziness, maybe because ofdistance between them and the rubbish bin. They do not want to walk because it might take some of their time (time factor). This clearly shows that students’ have attitude problem even though they are educated. Knowing that littering is wrong and yet doing it can explain that there is an attitude problem. Cialdini and others (1981:255) strongly agree that â€Å"littering is a measure of attitude†. Littering especially occurs when someone (who cares) is not watchingor witnessing