Active Citizen - Quiz 02

1) You are on a family trip on the Southern Highway and when you suddenly feel hungry. You eat a whole packet of biscuits, what would you do with the wrapper?

I will pull down the shutter and throw out the biscuit wrapper. Goodbye little wrapper, you served me well!

I will surreptitiously let it slip onto the floor of the vehicle. Sush! No one needs to know.

I will fold the wrapper and put it in my pocket; I will put it into a garbage bin when we reach our destination

We always travel prepared with a few trash bags. I will put the wrapper in a trash bag and bin it when we reach our destination

2) It’s time for lunch. Your family decides to take a detour off the highway and have a picnic lunch by the beach. When you’re done with lunch you notice there’s a pile of boxes, bags, and yogurt cups accumulated. What do you do?

Leave it strewn around. There’s already some litter other picnickers have left behind anyway

I will put the trash into a garbage bag and leave it at the beach. Hopefully some garbage collectors will pick it up. You can’t seriously expect us to put that gross trash in the vehicle and travel with it

I will get my family to put all their trash into the garbage bag and put it in the vehicle. We can throw it into a proper trash bin when we arrive at our destination

I will get my family to put all their trash in two separate bags, one for paper/cardboard and another for polythene. We can dispose of the garbage in appropriate trash bins when we reach our destination

3) You arrive at your destination. It’s a quaint guest house directly by the beach. Just as you’re about to grab your travel bag, you notice the garbage bags. What runs through your mind?

There’s no time to deal with the garbage, the sea is calling!

That I need to find the caretaker and explain that I have some trash from the journey that I’ve divided into paper and plastic, and I’d appreciate it if they could dispose of it in their trash

I know I need to find someone at the guesthouse who can dispose of the garbage, but I feel awkward about asking

Meh, someone else in the group can deal with disposing of it.

4) As soon as you get to your room, you change into your swimmers and make a beeline to the beach. When you get there you notice that the beautiful beach is littered. What do you do?

With unbridled indignation I will tell off the staff for not maintaining the beach for their guests and head straight back to the vehicle. I’m leaving!

Quickly Google other guest houses in the area that might have a better beach, gather my family and politely leave

Speak to the staff about cleaning up the beach. Suggest that they put up some signs to discourage people from littering, maybe they could provide bins for paper and plastic that are firmly secured (won’t get blown or washed away) along that stretch of the beach

Speak to the staff and organise a beach clean up. Get my family involved, see if I can inspire other guests to join too. While also suggesting point III as a long term solution

5) The staff is visibly upset. They explain that they do clean the beach regularly but most of the rubbish comes from the sea and is washed up on the beach so frequently they find it difficult to clean it fast enough. How do you respond?

What a ridiculous excuse! If they want business they need to hire someone to just clean the beach 24/7

I will advise them to speak to the Municipal council about finding the cause and ask the mayor to find a long term solution collecting trash that washes up on the beach

I will do point II and maybe take pictures and share it on my social media accounts. I could also reach out to some local journalists who might be interested in writing about this occurrence

Well that’s a bit beyond me. Better look for another guest house asap

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