Eco-Action in Primary and middle school

Eco-Action

The Shanghai municipal government released its three-year action plan (2018-2020) regarding the city's garbage classification. According to the plan, Shanghai will increase its daily waste disposal amount to 32800 tons by 2020.The four categories of classification are “harmful, recyclable, wet and dry”. In the three years, Shanghai will also renovate more than 17,000 garbage bins and 41 large scale waste transfer stations.

Recently, the middle school p of SHSID has been actively responding to this government call by turning waste into value. A machine of “Waste into Value” has been installed at the lobby of the middle school p building, and students have been lining up to put empty bottles into the machine every lunch break. The machine encourages the students to recycle by providing tiny incentives, and the purpose of this event is to help students recycle and gain knowledge in recycling. Students in the middle school p have already learned that with the increase amount of trash produced, recycle is essential to us, and they have been doing their own parts every day.

Inspired by the EcoCap club established by the high school students, grade 5 and grade 6 students participate in another action. What they do is to collect the PP&PE plastic cap of the beverage bottles and the PET bottle bodies so that they could be regenerated into plastic products such as stationery. The club members placed their own EcoCap recycling bins in each classroom, and let students put their empty bottles and bottle caps into the recycling bin separately. Most of the activities focus occur during noon. The club members were divided into groups and recycled plastic bottles from each building every week. Every Tuesday afternoon, they collect the remaining bottle caps in the recycling bin. With the help of all the grade 5 and 6 students, they donate the earnings to Global Association for Child Vaccines to help children, integrate environmental protection with public welfare.

We pursue not only people's benevolence, but also respect for our planet. Although each one of these activities is insignificant, by pooling forces from each person, we can garner huge environmental protection forces and contribute to the benefit of society and Earth.

Here is a vedio about how to use the machine.

上海市政府去年发布了《上海市垃圾分类三年行动计划(2018-2020)》。根据该计划，到2020年，上海每天的垃圾处理量将增加到32800吨，在未来三年，上海还将改造垃圾桶和大型废物转运站。

上海中学国际部初小段积极响应政府的号召，不但在教室里进行垃圾分类的教育，还举行了各种环保活动。最近在中学部大楼的大厅里安装了一台“废品转化成价值”的机器，每到午休时间，学生们都会排队把空瓶子放进机器里。这台机器通过提供微小的奖励来鼓励学生回收，而这次活动的目的是帮助学生获得回收方面的知识并对保护环境更有责任感，每天都为环保做自己的一点贡献。

五六年级的同学们还一直在通过EcoCap社团推行环保活动。他们将饮料瓶子的PP&PE塑料盖子以及PET的瓶身收集起来，重新再生成文具等塑料产品，变废为宝。同时，把EcoCap得到的收益捐献给疫苗国际组织用于拯救儿童。

我们依靠汇集大家的每一份力量，就能积少成多，汇聚成巨大环保力量，为这个社会，为地球做出贡献。