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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.
BANGALORE
“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 organisation working on issues related to solid waste.
Prizes galore
The event ended with the prize distribution ceremony, with the first prize for waste recycling art creation going to Baldwin Girls’ High School. Mirambika School for the New Age won the rolling champion trophy and was declared the overall winner.
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.”
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.
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