Mayfair’s Toilet Paper Wastage

On the Mayfair campus, we strive to be the best people we can be, and hope to become good citizens in the later furture. One example is not producing or spreading so much wastage and trash. At the Winter Sport assembly held on January 16, 2025, everything seemed fine, but a companion of mine pointed out how competitors were using too much toilet paper for the snowman game. A game in which the competitors used toilet paper to cover teachers in making snowmen, something fun and harmless. However, at the very end, the toilet paper from the teachers went straight to the trash right in front of us. The ASB of Mayfair did not just throw the toilet paper, but they ended up throwing the whole toilet paper rolls into the trash.

As I did my own research, I went to check the trash cans, finding one filled halfway with loose toilet paper, another inside the gym with at least three toilet paper rolls with more loose paper around it, and more toilet paper thrown at the grown and left there for people to step on. After seeing all this in person it amazed me how a game like this was approved without considering that wastage left not only on the floor, but the trash, a resource someone else could have benefited from in a tougher spot financially.

Speaking not only as a student of Mayfair High school, but as a citizen of this country, I know it's not okay to be wasteful with resources even other people could use. School has taught us many things, from reading and writing to math, but also taught us to be resourceful. But to see that those same teachings are not applied after the game with the toilet paper, wasting it as if it did not matter or cost money. As I see this, how can a school teach to be resourceful, but still commit the action themselves and I am not blaming the students for throwing it away, but I blame the school for letting it happen. Yes, part of the responsibility does fall upon the students to know what it is to be mindful and resourceful, but how did the organizers let this slide, the adults of our school not correct us and let the situation happen? Letting teenagers throw away something that still could have been used.

What started off as a game turned into a situation of wasting resources that could have been used for a better cause than playing the snowman game. Although it was fun, the paper could have been used to the best of their ability even as clean up paper for an art class or used as cleaning paper for the janitor, but it was rather thrown away. As a school I know Mayfair can do better, Let’s go Monsoon.