LET’S STOP USING

SINGLE-USE PLASTIC
ON CAMPUS
10 NOVEMBER 2020
MAZURA ANUAR
ICAN COORDINATOR
AKADEMI PENGAJIAN BAHASA
UiTM SHAH ALAM
CONTENT
1.0 Introduction

2.0 The Project

3.0 Monitoring and Standardisation

4.0 Achievement and Value Creation

5.0 Recommendations
1.0 Introduction
Team Organizational SUPREME SQUAD

Chart PROF. DR. AHMAD

MAZLI BIN
MOHAMAD
PATRON

IR. HJ. ANUAR

HASHIM
FACILITATOR

ASSOC. PROF. DR. ASSOC. PROF. DR.

LAURA CHRIST LOW HIANG LOON
DASS ASSISTANT
PROJECT PROJECT
DIRECTOR DIRECTOR

HADAYAT RAHMAH JEBAKUMARI

MAZURA ANUAR MAISARAH BINTI AHMAD SYAFIQAH JOHAN BINTI ZACHARIAH AIDIN
HASSAN SELVARANI A/P
HEAD OF CONTENT KAMIL AMIR JOHAN DRUCKMAN
HEAD OF EBENEZER
HEAD OF DESIGN HEAD ANALYST 2 MAIN PRESENTER
DOCUMENTATION HEAD ANALYST 1
UiTM GREENATION Vision
Excerpts from the Vice Chancellor’s
2019 New Year’s Address
The selection of project theme 01 02 03
is in line with
Memperkasakan Menyemarakkan Merancakkan
UiTM’s GREENATION vision alumni UiTM kampus budaya membaca
Eco-friendly

UiTM sought to become 04 05 06

an eco-friendly campus
beginning 2019.
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INISIATIF
Memperkasakan
wakaf
Merealisasikan
Education 5.0 @
Memperkenalkan
SDG Triangle @
UiTM UiTM
KECEMERLANGAN
UiTM
UiTM launched an ongoing
07 08 09
project called GREENATION
in 2019 to go green on campus Merancakkan
high-end TVET
Menjuarai
Datanomics atau
Meluaskan Laluan
dan Kokurikulum
Data Driven Tahfiz
University

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UiTM GREENATION
Vision
02 UiTM seeks to improve the
Menyemarakkan processes related to Water,
kampus
Eco-friendly
Transportation, Energy and Climate
Change, Education and Research,
Setting and Infrastructure and also
Waste to become an eco-friendly
Water Transportation campus starting in 2019.
Energy and Education and Setting and
Climate Change Research Infrastructure

Waste
Identifying PLASTIC WASTE 10
Problem
How pressing is the issue? How capable are we as individuals
in handling the issue?

Scales of 8 to 10 = 68.4% 214 Responses Scales of 8 to 10 = 42.9%

Plastic
Waste
Overflow of plastic
waste on campus,
especially on
weekends.
2.0 The Project
Project
Objectives
To create awareness and educate the general public, starting with UiTM
01 students, on the threats of single-use plastics on the environment and
human health.
To develop a method of reducing or doing away with
02 single-use plastic use in the cafeterias at UiTM, Shah Alam
Project campus.
To encourage the use of biodegradable plastic instead of
03
Objectives single-use plastics.

To develop a system that can be replicated by food operators

04 in other institutions to become plastic free eateries.

05 To run a pilot test at UiTM Shah Alam.

Relevance of Project
Current situation &
ecosystem

This project will pave the

Development of a system
to create single-use plastic
free cafeterias.
Reduction in the use of
way for all cafeterias at
single-use plastics will
UiTM branch campuses all
reduce plastic pollution in
over Malaysia to become
the environment and help
single-use plastic free.
to sustain life on earth.

This project is in line with Malaysia’s

Road Map towards Zero Single-Plastics Use 2018 – 2030.
Project
are used only once before
Terminology they are thrown away or
recycled
characteristics

Single-use examples
Plastic bags,
straws, coffee
Plastics stirrers, water
otherwise
Disposable known as bottles and most
food packaging
plastics
Single-use Plastic Usage
Plastic straw

Plastic bag Lunch box

Types of
single-use plastics
Plastic bag
currently being for drinks Fork
used by café
operators at
institutions
Cup lid Spoon

Cup
Summary: Benchmarking Findings

Wide use of single-use plastic items – lunch boxes, cups,

01
cutlery and carry bags.

Some cafeterias provided plastic straws upon request 02

KOLEJ INTERNATIONAL
BANTING
FOC. MEDICAL
MARA Paper cups, paper bag and brown paper with PE plastic UNIVERSITY
03
coating were used in several cafeterias.

Bottled water was sold in all 04

UNIVERSITI SUNWAY
INDUSTRI
cafeterias. UNIVERSI
SELANGOR TY
Water dispensers were made available to students but
05
were mostly insufficient in number.

UNIVERSI A few institutions encouraged students to bring their own SEGI

TI 06 UNIVERSI
MALAYA
containers but still provided single-use plastic takeaway TY
containers.
UiTM Kampus Dengkil: Observation &
Comments
1. Single-use plastic-themed campaign was being conducted at this campus.
2. Water dispensers were only placed in the hostels and the number was insufficient.
3. The stalls used paper containers and paper bags but there was no use of straws. However,
plastic water bottles were sold.
4. Students were strictly instructed to bring their own water bottles and food containers.
5. There was a committee monitoring the premise to ensure there was no use of single-use
plastics. Stall operators strictly prohibit students and staff to use single-use plastics for
takeaways.

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Current Single-use Plastic Usage (UiTM Shah
Alam cafés)

Usage per
Plastic type 100 %
customers
Plastic lunch box 100 24
Plastic fork 20 5 No replacement
Plastic spoon 20 5
Plastic cup 50 12
Plastic cup lid 50 12
Plastic bag for drinks 10 3
Plastic straw 50 + 10 15
Plastic bag 100 24
Total 410 100
Data obtained through face-to-face interviews and phone
interviews with café operators in UiTM Shah Alam.
Target Setting
Why reduce single-use plastics by 80% at
UiTM Shah Alam campus?

• Feasible target for an initial effort.

• There are affordable and readily
available alternatives for 80% of
single-use plastics.
• The alternative for plastic cup lid
is currently too expensive and
difficult to obtain.
• To disperse green awareness to the
wider community by educating UiTM
students.
• To support UiTM’s GREENATION.
Creative and Innovative Solutions
SUGGESTED
CAUSE OBJECTIVE METHOD
SOLUTION
MAN
Lack of awareness Create awareness Awareness campaigns Hold awareness campaigns
campaigns
Most
MATERIAL
Cafeterias Replace single-use Alternatives to single-use Provide information on
Lack information on
in UiTM plastic plastics biodegradable products
biodegradable products
Shah Alam
provide EQUIPMENT Enable Provide dish-washing liquid
Provide dish-washing facility
single-use Lack dish-washing facility dish-washing and sponge
plastic
containers in EQUIPMENT
Convenience Provide user friendly food Design user friendly food
large volumes No user-friendly food
students/staff container container
container
freely on
Develop an SOP for
a daily basis METHOD Achieve Single-use
SOP for Single-use Plastic Single-use Plastic Free
No university policy on Plastic Free
Free Cafeteria Cafeteria to be
single-use plastic use Cafeteria
recommended to the
university management
Analysing Solution 1: Hold Awareness Campaigns
JUSTIFICATION FOR SUGGESTED
SOLUTION
• Campaigns are important to create
awareness among people. The public and
cafeteria operators must be made aware
of the dangers of single-use plastic and
the availability of eco-friendly alternatives.

• Campaign is usually the first step taken

before implementing changes that
involves a big group of people.

• Government bodies hold regular

campaigns to promote an ideology,
change of habit or attitude.
Analysing Solutions 2 & 3:
Providing Alternatives to Single-use Plastic & Dishwashing facilities
Single-use Plastics
JUSTIFICATION FOR SUGGESTED SOLUTION
• Eco-friendly alternatives serve the same functions as
single-use plastic food containers without polluting the
environment; and the prices are similar.

• Eco-friendly alternatives will become more and more

cost-friendly as they become more widely used.

• Malaysia aims to be single-use plastic free by 2030 (Malaysia’s

Roadmap Towards Zero Single-use Plastics 2018-2030).

JUSTIFICATION FOR SUGGESTED SOLUTION

• Provide convenience to students and staff who put effort in
Dishwashing
facilities
bringing their own containers.
• As a form of moral support from the café providers and the
university.
Analysing Solution 4: SOP Recommendation
JUSTIFICATION FOR SUGGESTED
SOLUTION
• SOP can be easily adopted by all faculties
and UiTM campuses to implement
single-use plastic free cafeteria.
• SOP ensures standardisation of experience.
The same process can be replicated across
faculties and campuses.
• SOP controls quality and consistency of the
campaign and implementation of single-use
plastic free cafeteria.
• SOP can save on training costs as they act
as reference guide and allow people to work
independently.
The purpose of SOP is to ensure that
essential job tasks are performed
correctly, consistently and in
conformance with internally
improved procedures. (Peterson,
2006).
SOP must provide systematic,
detailed, logical instructions. Having an
SOP SOP has resulted in the answering of
important questions. (Tuck, 2009).
The SOP is one of many process documents
which is needed for consistent operation
of a given process, with other documents
involving process flow charts, material
specifications and so forth. (Akyar, 2012).
Analysing Solution 5: Design a Lunch Box Set

JUSTIFICATION FOR SUGGESTED

SOLUTION
• A lunchbox is eco-friendly

• Could be designed to suit students' needs

e.g. compartmentalised & air tight lunch box
with a cutlery set, water tight tumbler and a
designer bag to fit them.

• Lunch box is easy to clean and maintain.

• Several compartments within enable storing

of different types of food/snacks.

• Saves the environment by reducing plastic

waste that goes into our landfills.
Towards Single-use Plastic Free Cafeteria:
Campaign 1 at FSPU

Recruitment of Campaign
Facilitators
This campaign aimed
13 FSPU students to educate students
volunteered to be the about the single-use
Facilitators for this plastic use and its
campaign. negative effect.

STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4 STEP 5

Approval PHILOSOPHY Implementation
PHILOSOPHY
Dissemination of
FSPU dean Information The FSPU café
supported the provided paper boxes
project after a The necessary
by charging 50 cents.
discussion with information
MISSIONregarding
Students were
APB KIK team. the campaign was
encouraged to bring
disseminated to FSPU
their own containers.
students through
various platforms.
Approv
al
Campaign at
FSPU This project collaborates with the NGO, Persatuan
Lestari Alam Malaysia. Around 200 students came
for the talk and were given a free shaver.
Towards Single-use Plastic Free Cafeteria:
Campaign 2 at FSKM

Recruitment of Campaign
Facilitators
This campaign aimed
10 FSKM students to educate students
volunteered to be the about the single-use
Facilitators for this plastic use and the
campaign. negative effect.

STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3 STEP 4 STEP 5

Approval PHILOSOPHYDissemination of Implementation
PHILOSOPHY
Information
FSKM dean The FSKM café
supported the The necessary information provided paper boxes
project after a regarding the campaign with 20 cents charge.
discussion with MISSION
was disseminated to FSKM Students were
APB KIK team. students via various encouraged to bring
platforms. their own containers.
Approval

Letter of approval
in carrying out the
project by the
FSKM dean
Campaign at
FSKM
The project aims to
create awareness among LIKES: 231
students on the LIKES: 280
importance of refusing QUIZ PARTICIPATION:
single-use plastics. 471
Implementation 1 – at FSPU Café

FSPU – IMPLEMENTATION OF SINGLE-USE PLASTIC FREE CAFETERIA

1. Paper lunch boxes were made available at 50 cents per box.

2. Plastic cutlery was not given anymore, only metal cutlery was made available.
3. Plastic cups were still used as café still had unfinished stock.
4. Plastic carry bags were given upon request at 20 cents per piece.
5. Cakes, Malay kueh and sandwiches were pre-packed in plastic containers.
6. Paper straws were sold at 20 cents each.
Implementation 2 – at FSKM Cafe
The implementation was conducted a few weeks after the campaign.
Posters were displayed on the walls and tables of the cafeteria as a
reminder.

Cling wrap was not used to cover

the food
Students’ Feedback : Awareness

Are you aware of the Single-use Plastic Free Café campaign held?

Dengkil
93.2% of FSPU respondents VS
REFERENCE
84.4% of FSKM respondents were
aware of the Single-use Plastic Free
Cafe campaign held at their faculty

67.8% of 1113 respondents of

Dengkil were aware of the
Single-use Plastic Free Cafe
campaign held at their campus in
2017

FSPU
FSKM
Students’ Feedback: Burden to
Pay
Burden to pay extra for food packaging when café goes Single-use Plastic Free

When the FSPU cafe goes single-use

plastic free, 55.2% of respondents find it DENGKIL
not a burden paying extra for food (Reference)
packaging (paper lunch box & paper
cup) compared to 59.1% finding it not a
burden in FSKM

FSPU When the Dengkil cafe goes single-use

plastic free, 51.7% of respondents find it
not a burden paying extra for food
FSKM packaging (paper lunch box & paper
cup).
Students’ Feedback: Qualitative Data
Dengkil
FSPU FSKM (for reference)

Eat at Café 11.4% 5.3% 3.1%

Bring own container / food 30.7% 19.7% 12.9%
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Sell / charge for disposables 6.8% 22.4%
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Spread awareness / hold campaigns 3.4% 9.2% 7.6%
Use recyclables / biodegradables 22.7% 21.1% 13.4%
Provide free containers / metal straws 4.5% 5.3% 37%
Stop providing / using disposables 20.5% 17.1% 18.9%
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 Monitoring &
3.0 Standardisation
Single-use Plastic Usage at FSPU Café in May
2019
Usage per 100
Plastic type %
customers
Plastic lunch box 100 24
Not practiced
Plastic fork 20 5
till end of May
Plastic spoon 20 5
Plastic cup 50 12
Plastic cup lid 50 12
‘Drinks plastic’ 10 3
No replacement
Plastic straw 50 + 10 15
Plastic bag 100 24
Total 410 100
Not practised
till end of May

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Project Monitoring – at FSPU Cafeteria

Our
target =
20%

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Single-use Plastic Usage at FSKM Café in June
2019
Usage per 100
Plastic type %
customers
Plastic lunch box 100 24
Plastic fork 20 5
Plastic spoon 20 5
Plastic cup 50 12
Plastic cup lid 50 12
‘Drinks plastic’ 10 3
Plastic straw 50 + 10 15
Plastic bag 100 24
No replacement
Total 410 100

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Project Monitoring – at FSKM Cafeteria

Our
target =
20%
 Set up of SOP: Institution SOP
No. Duration PIC Process Flow Work Statement Form/Document

Special committee manages

and support (provides content 1. Directive
1 Head of (Pekeliling)
1 week Institution Set up Special Committee in the form of quizzes, posters,
feedback forms etc.) the
initiative

2 Special Instruct Faculty/HOD to set

1 week
Committee up Green Initiative
Team/Club

Faculty/ Set up GIT/C and appoint The Green Initiative Team/Club

3 1 week lecturers as advisors is led by students
HOD

Green Approval and funding is given

4 1 week Initiative Get approval and funding by the faculty/HOD to run the
Team/Club Green Initiative Campaign
 Institution SOP (con’t)
No. Duration PIC Process Flow Work Statement Form/Document

Green Campaign is run campus-wide 1. Surveys

5 3 weeks using surveys, posters and 2. Posters
Initiative Run Green Initiative
Team/Club Campaign competitions

Green Obtain feedback from the 1. Google Form

6 2 weeks Get feedback on campaign customers who visit the 2. Observations
Initiative
from students and staff cafeteria. If the feedback is 3. Interviews
Team/Club No
positive, proceed to the next
step.

If the feedback is negative,

Is the feedback positive? GIT/C will need to re-run the
campaign to ensure better
support from the faculty.

Yes
 Institution SOP (con’t)
No. Duration PIC Process Flow Work Statement Form/Document

Green
7 3 weeks Initiative Implement Initial
Team/Club Single-use-Plastic Free
Cafeteria Obtain feedback from the
Green customers who visit the
8 2 weeks Get feedback on Single-use 1. Google Form
Initiative cafeteria. If the feedback is 2. Observations
Plastic Free Cafeteria No
Team/Club positive, proceed to the next 3. Interviews
step.

If the feedback is negative,

Is the feedback positive? GIT/C will revise the
implementation and improve
based on the constructive
feedback received.
Yes
Green
9 3 weeks Initiative Implement
Team/Club Single-use-Plastic Free
Cafeteria
 Institution SOP (con’t)
No. Duration PIC Process Flow Work Statement Form/Document

Ensure all parties adhere to the

10 Green new regulations for single-use
Ongoing Initiative Monitor progress of single-use plastic free cafeteria
Team/Club plastic-free cafeteria

Green
11 Initiative Achieve Single-use Plastic-
Team/Club Free Cafeteria
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)
Supported by
Deputy Vice
Chancellor
(Development)
of UiTM Shah Alam
& APB Dean

APB Dean TNC Pembangunan

Support for Single-use Plastic-Free Cafeterias on Campus IDENTIFY
PROBLEM

by Deputy Vice Chancellor (Development)

of UiTM Shah Alam

Deputy Vice Chancellor

(Development)
 Achievement &
4.0 Value Creation
Project Target Achieved – at FSPU Cafeteria

TARGET ACTUAL PERFORMANCE

Project Target Achieved – at FSKM Cafeteria

TARGET ACTUAL
PERFORMANCE
Achievement in gathering information:
Price comparison of Single-use and Eco-friendly
Products
Green Eco GREENTREE.MY
Paradise (online) (online)
[paper – PE-free [paper – white]
(white)]

Unit
price 0.1498 0.1856 0.1990 0.8000 1.2950
(RM)

Double 11 Creative Idea

(online) Home
(online)
[plastic]
[paper – 6
McQwinsWholesale.com designs]
(online) – [plastic]
Cost Efficiency
Total Cost of Single-use Plastic Usage
SEMESTER SEMESTER
SINGLE-U This amount
1 2
SE A DAY A WEEK will be
(14 + 3 (14 + 3 A YEAR (RM) 3 YEARS (RM)
PLASTIC (RM) (RM)
ITEM
WEEKS) WEEKS) cumulatively
(RM) (RM) saved by
FOOD
2,844.6 19,912.2 338,507.4 338,507.4 677,014.8 2,031,044.4 switching to
BOXES
FORKS &
reusable
170.64 1,194.48 20,306.16 20,306.16 40,612.32 121,836.96 food
SPOONS
CUPS/ containers.
1,422.3 9,956.1 169,253.7 169,253.7 338,507.4 1,015,522.2
GLASSES
STRAWS 213.33 1,493.31 25,386.27 25,386.27 50,772.54 152,317.62
BAGS
WITH 1,422.3 9,956.1 169,253.7 169,253.7 338,507.4 1,015,522.2
Total cost of wastage on single-use plastic items of UiTM Shah Alam college residents
HANDLES
1,445,414.4 4,336,243.3
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 Project Value (To Organisation and Customers)
Decrease cost to handle single-use plastic
Decrease cost by not paying for plastics
waste in campus
01 01
Cost Cost

Reduce effort needed to develop own SOP Provide an innovative lunch box to use
02 02
Effort Product

Provide a tested method to

successfully implement 03 04 03 Able to support the Go Green
04
single-use plastic-free Method Institutions
Option Customers Initiative initiative Option
environment
04 04
Reputation Health
Enhance public reputation in the eye of Better for health as going plastic-free
customers 05 05 lessens consumption of toxins
Incentive Values
Customers may support companies because it Reduce waste at home
fulfills their support of going green
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5.0 Recommendations
LET’S STOP USING SINGLE-USE PLASTIC ON CAMPUS

BRING YOUR
OWN CONTAINER
EAT AT USE
SUGGESTED
CAFE WAYS TO
RECYCLABLE
REDUCE S
SINGLE-USE
SPREAD PLASTIC ON STOP USING
CAMPUS
AWARENESS DISPOSABLE
S
SAY NO TO
PLASTIC
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Acknowledgement

Supreme Squad express the highest gratitude to the Dean, Prof.

Dr. Mazli Bin Muhamad, the management of Akademi Pengajian
Bahasa (APB) and Ir. Hj. Anuar Hashim, the facilitator for Supreme
Squad.

Thank you to all individuals who have directly or indirectly

contributed time, effort, advice and making this project a success.
THANK YOU