Who Did You Interview?
Mayuka Kitada, Summer Session Student
Demographics That Might Provide Helpful Context for Their Responses
- Age: 19
- Gender: Female
- Undergraduate student majoring in medicine
- Lives with family in Westchester, NY and Tokyo, Japan
Key Findings from the Interview
Questions:
- Are there anything you do on a daily or weekly basis that you consider sustainable? What is it?
- Tell me about the last time you used something or went somewhere sustainable. Where was it, and what was it?
- Are there any sustainable systems in your residential area? What are they?
- If a sustainable system could be added to your residential area, which aspect would you think most should be applied?
- Are there any changes you’d like to make to the systems around your environment?
- Adapts a sustainable lifestyle - recycles into subcategories on a weekly basis
- Recycle, there is a compost system in community, school uses compostable plastic spoons and forks
- Always bring recyclable bag around
- not really in house, 60 years in NY but there are energy saving systems in houses in Japan
- Solar panel on house, using electrical cars, but not everyone applies this type of lifestyle
- Some communities in Japan even have 15 categories for sorting trash, but some just litter around in NY
- Separate different types of plastics - e.g. hard/soft plastic
- start establishing more specific types of recycling, things that people put in landfill can be recycled, more awareness of recycling
- Neighborhood should do something with plastic as they cause a lot of pollution to marine populations; and even if you don’t run out of fuels, use an alternative to plastic; less containers/packaging in food
- Chemical pollution is made after time from plastic, it affects fish and turtles(choke) and people who eat it(poison)