April 6th, 2009 @ kadraoui
Recycling for Charity, a Bahrain-based organisation specialising in recycling, has launched a nationwide educational programme to help foster awareness of recycling and its benefits amongst the young generation. In an effort to build life-long environmentally-friendly habits early for a greener future ahead, the organisation is targeting public and private schools across the island and has already established recycling banks at Al Raja School, Riffa Views International School and St. Christopher’s.
“Recycling has to be made a part of our daily lifestyle, as whatever we do today will impact our future tomorrow. At Recycling for Charity, we want to help promote ways of saving the environment which not only educates the children but encourages them to spread the importance of recycling to their families at home,” said Boris Uhlig, Chief Executive Officer, Recycling for Charity. “The initiative will help to bring awareness that we all can do something to help the environment by focussing on the three R’s i.e. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.”
This educational programme for schools helps highlight the importance of reducing the amount of unnecessary items we use at school or home which increase carbon footprints. Eg. Buy only what you need to help reduce unnecessary waste; buy products that can be reused and recycle by separating paper and cardboard waste from plastics and cans and throw them away in appropriately labelled bins. This allows students to recycle material that they use in schools which would normally be discarded.
Recycling for Charity seeks to actively engage with schools and offer them support in their ongoing recycling initiatives to encourage kids to actively recycle. The company teamed up with Al Raja School for the school play “Make a Difference – Help Change our World” to stress the importance of saving energy and why recycling is necessary. The Schools will benefit from the educational programmes that Recycling for Charity will be devising to reiterate the recycling message amongst kids in a fun and interactive manner.
The recycling banks located in the car parks of various schools require students, parents and teachers to bring their plastic bottles, cans, paper and glass to the bank, so that the items can be recycled. The bins will be emptied regularly and the recycling items will be transported to Recycling for Charity’s factory in Sitra where the items will be recycled for use both here in the Kingdom and overseas.
Schools that want to team up with Recycling for Charity can apply via the website www.recycling-for-charity.com for containers free of charge.