"Many of our freshwater caves have become very polluted and have affected the animals and environments around it.
These springs have had problems for a long time now, with the pollution from agricultural runoff and sewage leakage,
and they are just getting worse."
-Dynver
"Many countries as of right now are more concerned about economic growth than the environment. Ocean Waste is untraceable, and individuals, the government and corporations can always shift blame to others."
- Jae
"Recycling is an important part of maintaining the livable conditions here on Earth, however, there is a lack of awareness and misconceptions about recycling; This could be supplemented by differing or confusing information from many sources and is shown by the vast amounts of water pollution in our oceans."
-Sydney
Presenting the Solution:
We came up with a Campaign idea called
“Waste Reduction Week”
. Every year there should be a week-long event in schools that conducts contests, presentations, and activities ideally put together by students. There will be presentations and workshops, debates to talk about world problems to talk about issues on waste.
Ideally offer students scholarship for initiating and planning the recycling-related activity and students who later participate in those activities can be given volunteer hours for cleaning up beaches and so on.
Ideally, we would hold art and graphic design exhibition/competition to help to raise awareness for benefits of recycling and waste reduction. There would be contests on designing recycling bins, brochures, posters, and art projects where 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place get scholarships of varying amounts.
Reward winning recycling bins would be placed in noticeable areas around school and utilized.
Examples:
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