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Reduce, reuse and recycle
BHEESHMA CHAND
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Waste management is the need of the hour. Know of any innovative ways to do it?
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Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy
Green Dreamz-2008: Innovative waste management.
“Think about this world. It is all you got. One world, one thought. Give it all you got. Reduce, reuse, recycle.”-- these were the catchy lines of a rap song, written and presented by students from Frank Antony Public School on e-waste management.
More such innovative presentations were made by 150 enthusiastic school children who participated in the one-day inter-school event on e-waste Management, titled “Green Dreamz 2008”, organised by WeP Peripharals in partnership with Saahas, a voluntary organization working on issues related to solid waste.
Students from Bishop Cotton Girls’ High School, Baldwin Girls’ High School, Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Gurukul, Little Flower Public School, Mirambika School for the New Age, NKS English School, National Public School, St. Joseph Boys’ High School, Gear International and Mother Teresa Convent were among the participants.
Following a week-long initiative to educate children on e-waste, the participants were initially taken to E-Parisara, India’s first authorised e-waste recycling facility in Karnataka, in order to get first hand experience on how e-waste should be dealt with. Then the participants interacted with other students and spread the knowledge they had gained.
The event ended with the prize distribution ceremony, with the first prize for waste recycling art creation going to Baldwin Girls’ High School. Gurukul won the most outstanding performance prize, with Santh Kumar H.M, a standard IX student, winning the best performer award.
The treasure hunt was won by St. Joseph Boys’ High School and the most interesting thematic presentation prize was won by Mirambika School for the New Age, Baldwin Girls High School and St. Joseph Boys High School. Mirambika School for the New Age won the rolling champion trophy and was declared the overall winner.
Prizes galore
Anushree, a standard IX, student from Mirambika School for the New Age, spoke about the play she was part of, “Through the play we depicted two possible futures, one of a society that has accepted e-waste management and one that has not.”
The winning team consisting of seven girls and three boys also sang ‘Heal the world’ and a specially composed song, for the occasion, on e-waste management created during the e-waste management week. Rajalaxmi V.R, science teacher at the school, said that the the school will continue this initiative to help the environment.
E-waste, incidentally, is any electrical or electronics appliance that has reached the end of its life. A recent study reveals that nearly 3.3 lakh tons of e-waste is generated annually in India, while an additional 10.5 lakh ton is illegally imported into the country.
However, only 0.19 lakh tons of this is recycled in the country due to poor awareness and insufficient recycling infrastructure.
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