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In this time and age where global warming and dying rainforests have been stressed, more often than one would like it, undergraduates have been expected to have a higher environmental awareness and be environmentally friendly. Well, not if one can help it.
This week in The Green Issue, Hooked uncovers the top ten ways NUS students wreck the environment. Ho Hum, say peace to the world.
 10) Have you seen these three cylindrical yellow, green and blue bins when walking around the campus?
Contrary to popular but naive belief, these bins are not coloured for aesthetic purposes. They do have a function. However, most NUS students not only ignore the clearly printed signs on the bins, they are in fact nonchalant about it.
Waste material is rarely thrown into the correct bin, especially when the distance of the bin is located far away from one's arms.
"After all, it's just recycling and if nobody bothers, why should I?"
But we all love Mother Nature, don't we?
9) Every undergrad's life is brimming with assignments, projects, papers, and unhappy thoughts. To counter this, the temperature of every LT and classroom has been adjusted to the minimum temperature that the air-conditioner operates on.
Well, the ice caps are melting already, whether we like it or not, what difference does blasting air conditioners make? We all need a little brain freeze, numb toes, and icicle fingers to relieve stress.
8) If one learns anything in university, that would have to be the importance of publicity. If you're organising a camp, a career talk, a concert, or a food-eating competition, the one wise thing to do is to spread the word.
And right here, in NUS, students are most capable of that. Every single event is widely publicised - posters cover every breathing inch of wall pillars (or toilet backdoors), pamphlets are distributed along every walk way, regardless of the day and time. Kill the trees, who cares, as long as people know about the publicised event? 
7) It is common practice for (well-groomed) guys to go to the gents before and after each lecture.
Notice how their hair gleams each time they leave the toilet? In upholding their strong beliefs towards personal grooming, guys are armed with aerosol hair sprays which they use unsparingly to achieve the desired look.
When all fails, water is the next best alternative. Our male friends love to leave the tap running whist they groom their hair. Oh, woe to the Earth.
6) On the other end of the gender spectrum, ladies do not spare the earth too. They dutifully clad their little toes in 3-inched stilettos and strut around the campus to parade that new pair of Jimmy Choo (or URS inc.) heels.
Fresh green grass is at the mercy of these heels as girls make their way from the bus stop to the canteen. Oh, do I look good today?
5) If students don't walk and don't take the public transport, they drive. That is the reason why one smells the occasional exhaust fume on a lovely Tuesday morning. Or the honks in the car parks wonderfully add noise and buzz to those evenings when one just wants to get out of campus.
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