Driving to and from school, I see a lot of garbage on the roadside. I cannot help but think of how I can help solve this problem apart from what I was taught at school and at home. I felt like not littering and putting my waste materials in proper places is not enough. This is when I thought of making things out of the waste items I found at home.
From empty soda cans, I made a mobile chime and hung them on the tree in our garden. It made such a nice sound when the wind blew. Then I worked on some plastic cups and their lids and made them into flowers using drinking straw for the leaves. My mom said it was nice and she used it to decorate our living room. Some of our guests also found it pretty and with the appreciation, I kept going.
Get creative
Thinking of all the children who walk to school barefoot, I made a pair of slippers from empty coke bottles. Using these, children need not suffer from walking on the heated cement and they could go to school happily. The same way, using a discarded sack of rice, I made a bag which I gifted to our maid's daughter to take to school.
I began to have so much fun that I made little things that we now use regularly at home like a table organiser made out of empty cereal boxes, a picture frame made out of cartons decorated with used aluminium foil and candy wrappers, a bird's feed pond from discarded pieces of glass, a box made from bits of mica wood (that I collected from a construction site) which now use as a case for our numerous remote controls and, an apron made from rice sack which I used whenever I wash the dishes.
In all these, I created a theme that I used to convey my message to anyone who sees it. Do Your Share! Save the environment! I believe that if we do our share in our own little way, tomorrow will certainly be better than today!
Bianka Venkataramani, Std 7,
Vael's Billabong High International School
