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Trash is a problem we can all sort out

Students at schools and kindergartens had classes on waste sorting yesterday.

At Shanghai Huangpu School in Huangpu District, students learned to dump waste into different bins as their first class of the new semester.

“The class was very helpful and interesting. I will certainly tell my family about it when I get home,” said third-grader Sun Huilin.

“Before, I was not sure on how to classify some types of waste properly. I usually put food delivery boxes in the recyclables bin, which I learned today is the wrong thing to do,” said Lu Hongjun, another third-grader. “They should go into the dry or residual garbage bin.”

The school has activities such as special days to collect recyclable items from students, Lu said.

Each class has designated students to manage waste classification and bins for different types of garbage in classrooms and public areas.

Local education and greenery authorities have organized teams of teachers to deliver waste classification lessons at 16 schools this semester.

Schools citywide are holding events to help students learn about garbage sorting.

At Shanghai Ziwei Experimental Kindergarten in Xuhui District, garbage classification games were organized yesterday. Children made environmental protection posters and broadcast garbage classification news during their first class of the new semester.

At Siyan Primary School in Fengxian District, students performed kuaiban (clapper talk) about waste classification, and a student at Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary School in Xuhui District demonstrated how to turn a milk carton into a storage box for hazardous waste.

At Penglai Road Second Primary School in Huangpu, students made picture books showing “the journey of waste.”

Students at Zhenru Wenying Central Primary School in Putuo District are using kitchen waste to grow plants, and each student has a green account to record profits made by turning waste into treasure. A fund has been established and money earned via the green accounts will be donated to needy schools.

Furthermore, an intelligent remote supervision system has been installed at some schools in Jing’an District to ensure food safety, the district food and market watchdog announced.

The system can spot a variety of problems such as rats or cockroaches in kitchens, abnormal temperatures or humidity and smoking in cooking areas.

The system will be in all district schools this year.




 

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