Leader name: Pana Maria Team name: Green Team Team members: Chiriacescu Ana, Eana Georgiana, Petre

Florin, Bacescu Alexandru, Juganaru Cristina Project Name: Making a better environment by recycling plastic

Project summary:
The green people from our school decided to help save the environment by collecting and recycling plastic bottles. Working with surrounding communities and local institutions these people (students and teachers) involved in the last year project: A Firmly NO to the Garbage in the Streets, went on to help people understand and learn to sort the waste and to prevent wasting plastic bottles by distributing leaflets, campaigning, surveys, competitions, exhibitions. Promoting the idea of sorting and recycling the waste we made our community to take greater action for a better place to live in.

Project Subject:
The living conditions in ours town are getting worse and worse. Exhaust fumes and smoke from the factories are polluting the air and trees are being cut down. Further more, the rivers are being polluted by all dumps, especially paper and plastic bottles. Our project is meant to decrease mostly waste dumped by people in the nearby rivers or simply in the streets. We are tired of meeting plastic bottles all over indifferently thrown away by all people. We try to get people involved in recycling plastic bottles schemes knowing that If they poison the environment, the environment will poison them.

If you poison the environment, the environment

will poison you!

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Project Objectives:
The main aim of this project is to make our town a better to live in by making people aware of the importance of sorting and recycling plastic bottle waste. Secondly to get school children actively involved in protecting the environment and become more responsible environmental persons. We have monitored several school activities and searched for possible solutions to our problems. By the help of the local radio and press, meetings or campaigns, different school activities and displays we tried and keep on trying to make our voice be heard.

Projects research
We have been working for a year to find methods of educating school children and people from our town and surroundings to sort and recycle waste. By means of local press and radio placing posters designed by green students from our school in town and neighbourhood we kept people informed and taught them the ideal lesson of sorting and recycling waste which otherwise, could have been burned or worse could have been dumped in the vicinity of rivers or simply dropped in the street. Our school green team campaigned in all neighbouring schools for the protection of the environment by sorting and recycling waste. We advertised our idea all over town and surroundings and prepared presentations for all local schools and other institutions to show the importance of sorting and recycling and how they can help.

Project action plan

We have organized clean-up campaigns for the local places such as hospital park, childrens parks, schoolyard and banks of the surrounding rivers. With the help of our school administrator there has been prepared the sorting place. To attract more people in the project, we contacted managers and directors of all important institutions: hospitals, schools, churches, shops, companies and local authorities, during campaigns and school activities. We contacted the recycling companies in the county, that supplied us huge sacks for the bottles. With the help of school and local volunteers we collected plastic bottles from nearby villages and local community. Volunteers students crashed and filled twenty huge sacks weighing 1t of plastic bottles. Onetz Company provided us a truck to take the sacks to the recycling factory. We keep the campaign and try to spread it everywhere needed and whoever interested in the whole country. With money gained we planted 300 trees in the area.

Project results so far:

Our project is intended to stress a social, educational and environmental problem and show an alternative way to solve it. We are sure that this project can be heard and applied in all surrounding villages by keeping on campaigns and activities. According to the surveys ordinary people would gladly participate to our project. We have placed special bins for collecting plastic bottles in shops, schools, and hospitals.