Starting this week, we have been present in Alexandria, Bistrita, Tulcea, Calarasi, Brad and Hunedoara, introducing our Recycling Patrol project to interested teachers. In the upcoming days, Timisoara and Valenii de Munte will join the 2011-2012 edition of the educational program initiated by the RoRec Association in partnership with the Townhalls and the County School Inspectorates, alongside partners Indesit and Philips – in pre-school and pre-university education systems.
The Recycling Patrol enables us to provide a convenient and simple education system, aimed at promoting the habit of collecting this type of waste selectively. The program helps students understand some of the causes for environmental pollution and become aware that mitigating them is up to everyone of us.
The 2011-2012 edition of the Recycling Patrol project will be carried out in pre-school and pre-university education institutions from the participating towns between November 25th 2011 and June 15th 2012. WEEE collection kits consisting of three cardboard containers for the collection of electrical and electronic equipment, household appliances, light bulbs/neon lamps and batteries will be installed in all education institutions involved: kindergartens, schools and high schools.
All children enrolled in the program will receive the program leaflet in one of its three versions specially designed for the three types of targeted groups: pre-school, school and high-school students.
The organizers, supported by manufacturers Indesit and Philips, will reward the performance at this edition as well, offering prizes to education institutions and coordinating teachers that collected the largest WEEE quantity/member of the Recycling Patrol, as well as other prizes, presented both nationally and locally, in every institution that joined the program. The project’s media partner is Agerpres, the National Press Agency.
The program supports the joint efforts of the Association, the local authorities and the RoRec members to create a coherent WEEE collection infrastructure in order to help meet the quantitative targets specified in the European norms, namely 4 kg of WEEE collected per person, per year.
Details about the Recycling Patrol program are available on the dedicated page of the RoRec Association website https://www.rorec.ro/ro/patrula-de-reciclare, as well as on the dedicated Facebook page www.facebook.com/patruladereciclare.