Waste Segregation and Recycling are important parts of any waste management strategy. This is how the school reduced their trash and reused the raw/waste materials.

        In order to achieve the environmental benefits, the school should oblige the SPG, YES-O and other Club officers and members to collect plastic bottles for recycling and incorporate them into plant containers. Each grade level should segregate their school wastes in order to identify the materials that can be recycled.  In addition with this, teachers and pupils must collect used bottles for a reusable canvass or plant container. These bottles can be utilized to replace plant pots as it’s useful in gardening in which could have environmental benefits as well. However, a better option can also be taken to the plastic bottles and sell them.

        Aside from reusing plastic bottles, a waste segregation program includes separating papers for recycling. The unsorted of high-grade white school and office papers like white typing, writing, pad papers, white scratch paper, index cards and computer from mixed papers can also be initiated in school so that the quality, quantity and usefulness of waste papers would be easily  identified and considered.

        Other types of wastes that have reused or recycled by the teachers and pupils can be put into a valuable one. The school can also make a program to recycle the plastics, rubber, glass, beverage containers and other waste materials which can be used as decoration in school. The idea is essential because it could help the school to lessen the waste materials, beautify the school and at the same time this would teach the pupils the idea of making the waste materials into a well and attractive design in which they could also apply to any occasion not only to school but also to their community.

        

By: Marilyn S. Panganiban | Teacher I | Cataning Elementary School