Our environmental impact during the pandemic

Transport, a seemingly inconspicuous part of our day, is now a conscious choice that people have to face in this global pandemic. While public transport, such as buses and trains, is intertwined with Japanese daily life, the presence of COVID-19 causes great concern of transmission amongst close-contact passengers. As Sacred Heart moves forward by having in-person classes once again, many of our high sc...

Paper towels: what once was just a “thick sheet of paper that you use to dry your hands”, as defined by the Oxford Dictionary, has now become a large contributor to Sacred Heart’s environmental impact. Ever since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sacred Heart has set up precautionary measures to combat the spread of the virus. Wiping our desks with alcohol and paper towels to disin...

Electricity shapes every aspect of our lives. One convenient flick of a switch and our rooms are lit, heated, and cooled. We tend to forget the impacts our casual use of electricity has on the environment as we are so wrapped up in our own daily lives. Therefore, we, the Environmental Science class took it upon ourselves to investigate the effects of COVID-19 on Sacred Heart’s electricity footprint, and...

Most of us dispose of our waste without a second thought. COVID-19, however, has made it necessary to consider how best to dispose of their waste in order to avoid transmission. This trend is particularly conspicuous in the Sacred Heart community, where new regulations strictly restrict the types of materials that can be disposed of in school wastebaskets. We predicted that these new regulations woul...