Green Networking a Way to Increase Recycling Awareness

Rabiatu Baba Shehu,Halima Baba Shehu,Rami El Khatib

doi:10.5296/emsd.v7i2.12614

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This paper demonstrates the need to promote recycling as part of individual's lifestyle, it shows the economic consequences of recycling on the global environment, it entails the effects of green networking in today's world and how the lifestyles of individuals from various academic settings are impacted. The findings in this paper reveal how ‘green networking' or ‘green social media' improves student's behavior towards recycling, it also shows how environmental organizations use green networking as an effective tool for recycling awareness. To attain this information, firstly, an online/ physical 20 questions survey was conducted among 777 students from ages 14-30+ within: (I) high school grades 10-12 and (II) university undergrad/postgrad level. These students were derived from various educational backgrounds ranging from American, British, Arabic and Canadian academic systems across the emirate of Dubai. Secondly, environmental organizations from the public and private companies such as Provectus and Emirates Environmental Group completed an online survey of 8 questions to provide an insight on how green networking can influence recycling, from different products like paper, plastic, cans, food/water, lastly, it provides data on how individuals respond to recycling policies. Finally, it will demonstrate the ways in which multimedia can be used as an economical tool for waste management.

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1.1 Overview of Green Networking & Recycling in today’s WorldIn today's world where social media is incorporated in individuals' lifestyles, a population balance and global economic concerns are portrayed through media portals
In order to understand the links between green social media, recycling, and pollution one must first define the terminologies. (I) According to Environment Protection Agency, (2016): recycling is defined as "the process of collecting and processing materials that would otherwise be thrown away as trash and turning them into new products” (EPA, 2016). (II) According to Technopedia (2016): green networking or green social media is defined as "Green networking is a broad term referring to processes used to optimize networking or make it more efficient” (Technopedia, 2016)
Provectus Middle East is a company that upholds principles of "Corporate Responsibility (CR), Social Responsibility (SR), and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)." The rationale for using Provectus in this paper is to provide an insight on other types of recycling and how green networking can change individual's responses towards food and water management, Provectus is a company that works with both high school and university students, the data provided in the questioner analysis can provide interesting statistical information (Provectus 2012)

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1.1 Overview of Green Networking & Recycling in today’s WorldIn today's world where social media is incorporated in individuals' lifestyles, a population balance and global economic concerns are portrayed through media portals. (II) According to Technopedia (2016): green networking or green social media is defined as "Green networking is a broad term referring to processes used to optimize networking or make it more efficient” (Technopedia, 2016) This term covers the processes that reduce energy consumption, as well as processes for conserving environmental materials or any other process that will reduce energy use/ financial cost." To further understand the concept of green networking one must analyze the impact of social media in an economical perspective, this is known as „social media marketing:' a term used to show the evolution of marketing; moving from the traditional sense of publicizing into a modernized era where marketing tools: such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube etc. These social media tools have become centralized in the educational and working industry, the majority of students and workers around the globe utilize social media in their daily activities (Technopedia, 2016)

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