If during the 365 days of the year the College of Special Education "Eusebio Martinez," is a very special school, which today has been too, because in the morning the Manager Zone Ecovidrio, Roberto Fuentes and the Mayor of Sewer, Joaquín Buendía, accompanied by the Councillor for Education, Juan Manuel Gómez, have been delivered to the director, Veronica Alfonso Ruiz, who chose one of the mothers to them on arrival, as were the true architects of the achievement thereof, collecting glass during these two months without stopping to get a coveted prize for students of the College, who gathered them and was also a feast of this morning.
During the two months that lasted the contest have collected 64,550 kg of glass in the 11 containers ready for the campaign, which means an average about 19.9 kg / pupil in just two months when the annual average glass recycling Sewer stands at 11.4 kg / inhabitant.
The following table shows the results of each center.
He is the winner of the special education school teacher Eusebio Martinez with 290.7 kg of glass collected.
In the competition they involved 11 schools and 3,247 students (Campoamor 174 students, Jacinto Benavente 605, Jara Carrillo 460, Las Tejeras 218, Ntra. Sra. De la Asuncion 210, Ntra. Mrs. Health 242, San Jose Obrero 55 , Vistabella 159, Sacred Heart 339, Samaniego 785 and finally the EEC Maestro Eusebio Martinez is the one that has fewer students, with only 27 students, being the campaign is focused mainly children cycle primary Sewer schools aged between 6 and 12 years and all students in the special education center.
These 11 containers have been emptied and weighing over two months of competition.
At the end of the period, the center more kilograms of glass per primary school pupil enrolled recycle would win a check for 1,500 euros to social purposes that fall directly on school such as sports equipment, school supplies, computer equipment , bonds for books, scholarships dining room, etc.
In addition to the previous competition, to promote the social web of Ecovidrio, an online contest was generated for each user could vote once a day at your favorite center and among all voters circumvent a mini-container with the shield of its center at the end of the campaign, being the winner and therefore the most votes Jara Carrillo school with 1,932 votes, who has delivered them a mini-container vinylated with the shield of its center, as a reminder of the campaign.
"Learn to recycle glass in your school" has been an environmental awareness campaign on the importance of recycling glass containers jointly promoted by ECOVIDRIO and the City Sewer, which aims to involve all components of the educational community to improve the recycling rate of the municipality, which is the lowest in the Region of Murcia.
The intended purpose is that school Sewer learn to recycle glass in school and in turn pass on what they learn in their homes.
To promote the recycling of glass containers and the smaller known as recycling and the benefits of recycling in a fun and easy way, this campaign is launching a contest in which school more kilograms of glass accumulates receive a prize 1,500 € for social purposes.
The awareness campaign "Learn to recycle glass in your school" launched a competition among all participating schools whose purpose is to generate habit with respect to recycling of glass between the school, school community and families.
The duration of the contest was 4 April to 3 June and during that time each school had to recycle as much glass as possible in the container provided for this purpose near the center.
In order to identify which was the glass container belonging to the campaign, they vinilaron with the image of Mr., Igloo and the name of the school.
The objectives in this campaign of environmental awareness were the Knowing the importance of participation and individual involvement in waste management.
Encourage recycling among school Sewer and increase the number of collected waste.
Show the actions to be performed for the proper management of recycling glass.
Assess the environmental benefits of selective collection and recycling of waste we generate and transmit the knowledge necessary to recycle glass and answer questions.
As reinforcement for children and the community at large would not lose interest, every fortnight dynamizing actions in different centers to continue encouraging school and reminding the campaign was conducted.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla