Interview with Tan See Yoke

Transcript of Interview with Tan See Yoke

Interviewer : "What does recycling means to you?"

Tan See Yoke : "Recycling means to sort out things that are unwanted and recycleable a side into another bag."

Interviewer :  "Are you recycling?"

Tan See Yoke :  "No, I do not really recycle."

Interviewer : "Why don't you recycle? "

Tan See Yoke : "I do not have the time to recycle and there is not much for me to recycle           

              too."

Interviewer : "If you have the time to recycle would you?"

Tan See Yoke : "Yes i will recycle."

Interviewer : "Do you think that people in singapore recycle? Why do you think that     way?"

Tan See Yoke :  "I do not think so, as there are not a lot of recycling bins around singapore. I do not think that singaporeans recycle as they are too busy and do not have the time for it.”

Interviewer : "Do you think that by having recycling programmes help to improve recycling?  Or rewarding people to recycle like in japan will encourage more people to recycle?"

Tan See Yoke : "I am not very sure but i think that it will certainly make a difference in the number of people who recycle. I think that by rewarding people to recycle will definitely increase the number of people to recycle by a lot. "

For Elderly, the researchers interviewed a female elderly named Tan See Yoke, aged 65. The elderly is still currently working and works eight in the morning to four in the afternoon. The purpose of interviewing the elderly is to better understand the views of recycling to the elderly.

Tan See Yoke is keen to recycle, however she does not have the time to do so as she is working from morning to the late evening and is rarely at home. She gave some of her views and also some ideas to help to influence and also ideas to help to encourage people to recycle. Based on the interview, information analyzed is that there are not enough recycling bins around and there is not much programmes or awareness on recycling. By increasing programmes to encourage people to recycle, the number of people who recycle will increase.