Save environment by reducing use of polythenes

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Save environment by reducing use of polythenes

• From 14th to 19th Sept 09

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Idea obtained from society.

• Every year, around 500 billion (500,000,000,000)
  plastic bags are used worldwide. So many that
  over one million bags are being used every minute
  and they're damaging our environment.  India's
  plastics consumption is one of the highest in the
  world.

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Problems in use of plastic bags
Given India's poor garbage collection and
recycling facilities, tons of plastic bags litter
the roads, preventing rainwater from seeping into
the ground. Hundreds of cows die in New Delhi
alone every year when they choke on plastic bags
while trying to eat vegetable waste stuffed in
the garbage.
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All this motivated to find solution of this
problem with the help of small but energetic
children
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Implementation process
Explaining problem to the students
Field visit to demonstrate effect of use of
polythene
Explaining how can they reduce use of polythene
Motivation of students not to use polythene
Collection of data form each student daily for
week
Feedback from parents ,shopkeepers and other
members of colony
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Teams for project..
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Members of team.

• Mentor teacher
• Students for data collection
• Students for implementing projects
• Feedback

• Mr L.B.Sharma
• Ms. Tushar ( VIII class)
• Ms. Prakhar Jain (VII class)
• Ms Arpit (VI class)
• All students of class VI ,VII, VIII
• Form 4 teachers. 1 shopkeeper in colony
• and school sweeper

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Format used for data collection
Name of student No. of new polythene used No. of times clothe bag used No. of times requested parents or others persons not to use polythene bags No. of times polythene are used




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Students of KV picking polythene waste in
Khajjiar during adventure trip
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Outcomes.

• Av. Use of polythene on first day 07 and last
  day 03
• Students reduce the use of polythene
  significantly.
• Students dumped there toffee and packaging
  wrappers in separate dustbin kept for polythene
• Students even requested many teachers not to use
  polyethene
• Some students requested there parents
  (shopkeepers)
• to use polythene only on requirement.
• This project also proved that we can solve many
  such problems through projects involving
  children of age group 10- 13 yrs

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Ultimately success of this project can be judged
from this fact that students requested me (Mentor
Teacher )in market not to use polythene at least
two times .This project also shows that students
of age group 1013 yr are very innocent .We can
solve many of our National problems by educating
them through these small projects
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The End