School Trash Gardening: Project OverviewWaste management is one of the thorniest problems in developing countries where environment-unfriendly activities such as disposal of plastic bags and littering of plastic bottles have rooted into human’s mindset for long. This has posed numerous detrimental impacts on natural and living environment. How can human’s health be ensured when their residential areas are landfills? Is it such a huge waste when an abundance of recyclable bottles and plastic materials which can bring economic and environmental benefits are disposed into the environments? According to Environmental Protection Agency 2014, 32 million tons of plastic wastes were generated annually, which include 28% of HDPE and 31% of PET bottles. Reducing the consumption of plastic materials, initiating a campaign which aims at the recycling, repurposing them among pupils at primary states schools are key issues that the project wants to address at.
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