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BULGARIA

“St.st.Cyril and Methodius” DIMITROVGRAD

REPORT OF THE ACTIVITIES IN OCTOBER PROGRAMME COMENIUS

3 R: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

We influence directly or indirectly on the microclimate of home, neighborhood, city, country. We are not isolated, we are part of the nature. With every action, every one of us influences consciously or unconsciously the nature and contributes to changes. One of the aims in our environmental policy is to prepare and implement a program to reduce costs, separate collection and recycling of waste in order to protect the environment.

We will include initiatives to collection for recycling, production and dissemination of environmental newsletters, flyers and brochures. Our survival depends on our way of thinking – how to recycle waste, how to turn them into something beautiful, how to save energy and how to use alternative energy sources.

For several years'' EKOPAK BULGARIA'' AD provides all schools and public buildings free containers with appropriate markings for separate collection of waste. There are such containers in our school. The target of the project was to convince the children in the meaning of sorting, to teach them how correctly to use the three colored containers and to motivate them to be involved in the protection of natural resources and the environment.

In October was held a school campaign aimed at giving new life to waste disposed of each household. In the campaign joined students from first to eighth grade, and children from the workshops “The creativity of the paints” and “Pottery and Modeling”.

With children from third grade was held interactive game ‘’ Let’s count the garbage’’ - the children made a list of the quantity and type of waste that were disposed of each family for one week.

1.biowaste – 35%2. paper- 30%3. construction waste- 12%4. plastic- 9%5.metal- 6%6. other- 5%7. glass- 3%

We will take part in the new project of Ecocompost’’Composting at School’’, which is aimed at all schools and kindergartens in the country and aims to create environmentally habits and citizenship. This project aims to introduce composting at school, an educational lesson by an expert an understandable language for children and entertaining activities and materials for the children.

To make this process is necessary: ◦ Composting is an excellent educational topic, that

includes knowledge of the biology and natural history and it has humanitarian and social aspect. The children

develop personal and social consciousness of the environment, they learn to live in solidarity and

teamwork. ◦ All organic waste generated by the school will be

recovered through a natural process. ◦ Composting is an alternative to a big environmental problem, namely the processing and recycling of waste. ◦ The finished product process is high humus and soil conditioners for all the flowers and trees in the school

yard. ◦ The composting has no negative sides, neither

children nor the school, the maintenance is minimal.

Souvenirs, models, flowers and clothing entirely of

waste materials were made.

The students marched dressed in clothes from plastic bags and paper

Довиждане от България

Good bye from Bulgaria