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Our school decided to participate in a contest called "Design For Change 2010" after attending a seminar by activist Rahul Bose. The students came up with the idea to address the problem of toxic plastic pollution by making paper bags from old newspapers to distribute in the community as an alternative to plastic bags. Teams of 5 students and a teacher formed to make the bags over two weeks. The bags were painted with environmental slogans and distributed around the school to promote using biodegradable bags and reduce plastic use.
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- 1. Introduction<br />Our school Mahadevi Birla Girls’ Higher Secondary School decided to join the contest, “Design For Change 2010” after attending a seminar conducted by Rahul Bose, who is an actor and a keen activist.<br />The Idea<br />The world is inundated with Toxic Plastic, which poses a serious threat to our environment. And so we wanted to bring about a change in the community by distributing paper bags made by the students.<br />The Process<br />The idea was shared with students between 8 – 13 years.
- 2. Teams consisting of 5 girls with one mentor teacher were formed.
- 3. Students learnt how to make the paper bags from the mentor teacher. Paper bags were made from old newspapers. The project has a dual purpose. On one hand old newspapers were reused and on the other awareness was created within the community.
- 4. This taught the students how to make use of waste material.
- 5. The bags were attractively painted with slogans concerning environmental issues.
- 6. The implementation process lasted for about two weeks.
- 7. The bags were distributed in the community around the school to create mass awareness. The people around the school were motivated to use bio degradable bags and discard of the use of plastics.