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Solutions

We also wanted to be positive, so presentations increasingly referred to solutions, such as the necessity and importance of providing more wastepaper baskets. From this starting point, other students were inspired to have their own ideas and prepare and make presentations for their own friends. In order to raise public awareness, a mural was painted in an underground passageway on campus, which looked at the problem of waste decomposition. With the support of Gori City Hall, a commercial made by the club members was launched on the city TV Station under the name “Let’s Take Care of the Earth”:

Our research showed that at school, paper sheets, plastic and tins left by the students in the classrooms after the lessons were the main types of waste being generated. Therefore, we decided to place used cardboard boxes decorated by the students in every classroom to sort out recyclable waste. With the money obtained by delivering about 1,000 kg of waste paper to recycling centres, club members bought bins of different colours and started to organise different types of waste sorting. The rangers wrote appropriate inscriptions and drawings on the boxes and we started recycling tens of kilos of plastic waste as well. In this way, our whole school community became accustomed to taking care of waste sorting. Students and teachers now bring waste from their homes, students on an excursion collect plastic bottles one by one and place them in the bins located back at school.

Little Rangers

Our ‘little rangers’ – some of our younger students, together with their teachers, think carefully about waste and how it can be used in the classroom – for example by making a model of the school from recycled cardboard which was presented it at an exhibition.

Fifth-grade students were met by the chairman and members of the board of the Gori Youth Council who talked to them about ecology and waste separation. Afterwards, students invented a table game called ‘what to put where’ which helped them organise waste into different bins.

What we had set out to do was gradually happening. We were changing our way of life at school. But we wanted to do more in the community.

Recycling fabrics

Textile recycling is not easy, but the school has reached an agreement with sewing and clothes repair businesses to collect off-cut material, which is taken to the Biliki Society, an organisation which creates and protects employment for disabled workers. The ‘waste’ fabric is then used to make bags that are sold at town markets based on the agreement with the sellers. These bags were also sold at an exhibition-sale event at our school. The event was very exciting for the children as they received money earned by their own work which was then used on more recycling projects organised by Metamorphosis. By undertaking such practical work, we hope that others both in and out of school will become aware of what can be done.



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