Inauguration of Eco-club at SPS

Date of event: 21st November, 2009

As mentioned in an earlier post, LIFE has decided to assist the teachers at Siddaganga Public School, Nagarbhavi in organising the eco-club activities for the school. On the 21st of November the eco-club was formally inaugurated for 40 interested children from 6th to 9th class.

After the initial ceremony, we conducted a one-hour interactive session with the children about issues with plastic waste disposal, including recycling, health effects and ideas to reduce. This was done as a follow up session after the school-visit to K K Plastics. Swapna spoke about the options for recycling of plastics and Adi spoke about the health effects that arise from stage of production to stage of disposal of plastics.

The movie "Story of Stuff" was also shown to the audience.

Few innovations made from "waste" plastic were also showcased to light the spark of creative use of waste in children. This included a used oil-can made into a container with an indoor plant.

The response from the teachers and students was encouraging. A suggestion was that "Story of Stuff" be dubbed into Indian accent so that the children can follow it better and also to make the session more activity based. Another suggestion was to reduce the dependency on Powerpoint presentations. These have been well taken.

We have given some work to the students of the club for the next month, including conducting waste segregation and audit at homes and school and suggestions for creative use of waste plastic.

The next session will be in January 2010, where a field trip may be organised for the children.

Participating members:

Harsha, Swapna, Adithya, Shreeshail and Rajeshwari