The Perception of the Junior High School Students of SMCQC on the Marian Spring Bottled Water and the Automatic Tubig Machine (ATM)

Abstract

The researchers aim to find out the preference on what the students prefer more, the Automatic Tubig Machine (ATM) or the Marian spring bottled water? The researchers surveyed 180 participants from grades 7 to 10 junior high school students. The St. Mary’s College Quezon City provided the new Automatic Tubig Machine (ATM) for the convenience of the students. Marian Spring was used for the Automatic Tubig Machine (ATM) for only 1 peso compared to the Marian Spring Bottled Water in the canteen, which costs 10-15 pesos. We aim to find out if the use of the Automatic Tubig Machine (ATM) helped the Junior HighSchool students with their budgeting compared to those Junior High School students who always buy water in the canteen and to find out if using the Automatic Tubig Machine (ATM) reduces plastic bottle wastes. The focus of the study was to assimilate the knowledge of the Junior High School students of St. Mary’s College Quezon City regarding the use of Automatic Tubig Machine (ATM) and buying Marian Spring Bottled Water of the Junior High School students. In conducting the study, the researchers made use of a non-experimental quantitative research design to control the factors that may supply to the effectiveness of the study. The study was conducted inside St. Mary’s College Quezon City because the researchers are currently studying at St. Mary’s College Quezon City and the researchers can also gather all the data quickly and to finish the paper in the allotted time given. For the rating of the benefits of the ATM, 1% of the respondents chose others, 11% chose Safety, 18% Waste Management, 30% chose Value for money, and 40% chose convenience. For the benefits of using the Marian Spring Bottled Water, 24% chose Value for money, 38% chose convenience, 15% chose Waste Management, and 23% chose Safety. For the preference between ATM and the Marian Spring Bottled Water, 12% chose none, 21% chose the Marian Spring Bottled Water, 32% chose both, 35% chose the ATM. The researchers recommend that the students bring their water containers to lessen the use of plastic cups at the Automatic Tubig Machine (ATM) and lessen the price of the Marian spring bottled water. For this time the Automatic Tubig Machine (ATM) has already helped students and teachers because the Automatic Tubig Machine (ATM) not only saves money but it also helps up to protect the environment by decreasing the use of plastic bottles which is made out of plastics.