Environmental education

From Bottle School Wiki

Environmental education is a huge component of creating a sustainable change within your community. Keep your eyes open for opportunities to talk about the environmental impacts of the waste our consumption produces and the harmful influences on our environment. Seek opportunities to speak to the youth who will be involved in the project about the “3 R’s” – Reducing, Reusing and Recycling – this will have a greater staying power when the kids are able to apply the lessons they learn to help build a school.

There are several different activities you can do with students of all ages that help to illustrate and drive home the lessons of environmental protection. Allow older kids to teach the younger ones and they will follow in their lead. Also, encourage kids to work together in pairs and groups to implement the lessons they have learned, this sparks unity and camaraderie.

Ideally, it would become impossible to build bottle schools due to the lack of excess inorganic waste and bottles in these communities. The hope is that children learning these lessons today will understand the importance of proper waste management and reduction, and an awareness of consumption levels. As they mature, hopefully they will demand a cleaner and healthier living environment, eliminating the possibility of generating enough trash to build a bottle school. The change has to start somewhere.