Rizz & Rescue

📣 Reaching the end of our semester, let's recap on our activities that we have done and the SDG we have achieved so far:

1. SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production 🍴
Our team participated in the Carnival where we sell fruity sodas and fruity mocktails as a refresher for a hot day. We made sure that our ingredients are freshly obtained, and prepared our drinks with utmost hygiene. We also did not let our ingredients go to waste as we proportioned our ingredients to create the perfect ratio drink. Guided by restaurant professionals, we are able to achieve SDG 12 with profits.

2. SDG 6: Clean Water and Sanitation 💧
We planned for a car washing event to be held to give our Curtin student an affordable service. We made a video to spread the word on how important the usage of clean water is to the environment and our own health. Using clean water to clean our car ensures hygiene, freshness and reduces the risk of damaging the quality of the car. We also made sure to use clean water for consumption for our drink sales during the Carnival to ensure the safety of health of our customers. That’s how we are able to achieve SDG 6 with a tiring yet insightful activity.

3. SDG 16: Peace, Justice, and Strong Institutions 🗣️
Our Team organised a small communication activity within a few Curtin students called Rizz 101. Rizz 101 reduces inequalities by providing all students, especially those with less confidence or exposure, equal access to communication coaching. This helps level the playing field and ensures everyone has a fair chance to succeed. This also blooms friendships, or even relationships. This also helps each other to understand that everyone has their own imperfections hence what completes the society to empower a better tomorrow, creating peace and justice in our world. We are able to achieve SDG 16 with a fun session.

Beneath the bright fluorescent lights of the dining hall, piles of polystyrene trays crowd the bins, their once-rosy sheen dulled by leftover rice and sauce. A sea of plastic water bottles glints in the afternoon sun on the tables that surround me, most half-full, most destined for the rubbish. I push open a reusable bag, feeling the cotton straps stretch across my shoulders, and pause: in this moment, in this place, every act of consumption seems to echo far beyond its immediate use.

This is campus life—a microcosm of comfort and convenience, of hurried routines and lingering ambitions. We come here to learn, to create, to build our futures. But also to consume: the coffee, the clothing trends, the tech gadgets, the take-away boxes, the fast fashion sales. And production, unseen yet ever present: the energy powering up our laptops, the water running in dorm showers, the paper we tear through for assignments. SDG-12, Responsible Consumption and Production, is not some distant goal for unfamiliar lands—it breathes here, on every walkway, every lecture theatre, every shared living room.

I walk past the vending machines. Bright, buzzing, always stocked. Chips, sugary drinks, and single-use plastics masked as convenience. I glance at the recycling bins nearby: three labelled separately—plastic, paper, mixed waste. Half are empty, half overflow with wrong items. A banana peel thrown in with plastic wrappers; a crisp packet tossed into paper. We try, we care, but the pull toward familiarity, toward ease, is strong.

Outside, in the green courtyard, students lounge on benches, with reusable water bottles but still disposable coffee cups everywhere. The trend of the moment: a reusable tumbler that everyone snaps photos of, yet many forget at home, opting again for the quick, disposable route. It is in these small choices—forgotten bottles, food left on plates, clothes bought and discarded—that the true weight of our consumption accumulates.

But there is hope. A student society exchanging clothes once a semester, turning last year’s trend into this year’s treasure. Professors introduce projects where students trace the life cycle of everyday objects, from raw materials through manufacture, transportation, packaging, to final disposal or recycling. These exercises are our imaginations and our responsibility.

Imagine a campus that pulses with mindful production: lab supplies redesigned for minimal packaging. Food is procured from nearby farms, reducing carbon footprints and supporting local communities. Digital textbooks are replacing printed ones when possible. Events in LT-foyer are powered by solar energy, with plates and cutlery that return to soil instead of landfills.

In quiet moments, when I’m alone in my room, I feel the weight of potential: the capacity I have, we all have, to shift the default. To ask: Do I need a new shirt, or can I mend the old one? Can I carry my lunch in a container I’ll use again? Can I say no to plastic straws, to excess packaging, to waste? These ripples, multiplied across thousands of students moving through this campus every day, might reshape not just our university, but the larger narrative of consumption and production in our region.

SDG-12 is alive in the clinks of reusable bottles, in the composted scraps, in the shared ideas, in the challenge to do better—not perfectly, but conscientiously. It teaches us that sustainability is not an ideal, but a practice; that every small decision counts; that building a responsible world begins here, among the classrooms, dining halls, dorms, and walkways of our college community.

🎉 Our Entrepreneur Carnival was a HUGE hit! The energy was incredible. Thank you to everyone who stopped by, explored, and bought our special made drinks — your support made this event truly special! 💜✨

"Coming together is a beginning, Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." - Henry Ford

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