翠竹外国语实验学校启动校园垃圾分类活动

Students are encouraged to recycle milk cartons at activities aiming to promote the significance of recycling plastics in Shenzhen Cuizhu Foreign Language Experimental School on September 17.

The activities, introduced by a stage play and including a round-table forum and a tour to the school’s environmental protection station, have presented the experiences and difficulties the school has encountered in being proactive about garbage recycling. From the perspectives of teenagers and children, the activities enable them to protect the environment by doing small things such as recycling milk cartons and not using plastic straws.

As waste sorting hasn’t been fully implemented in communities, students can involve their parents in positive behaviors and hence build a better community culture, said Wu Jiansheng, Shenzhen’s ambassador of garbage classification promotion.

It’s not easy for residents to form garbage-classification habits. As a link between families and communities, schools will help community residents to perform better in garbage classification, said Wei Ming from the Luohu District Urban Administration and Law Enforcement Bureau.

(Lin Lin)