Separate waste, avoid using disposable materials, recycle. These are steps considered essential to curb the production and incorrect disposal of waste. Entities such as the United Nations World Organization, support fundamental principles that can help promote a circular economy.
Environmental awareness can now start at home. In São Paulo, doctor Carla Guariglia teaches her daughter, Ana Luísa, aged 11, how to reuse food waste by composting it.
“We make food here at home and use potato skins, the skins of things, we just can’t use anything citrusy. We cover it and two, three weeks later, we go there and open a little drinking fountain where the leachate comes out, which is the liquid that we take and put on the plants to fertilize”, explains the student.
It is not only at home that this environmental education is present. At school, students also learn more about reusing waste. At a school in the south of São Paulo, teachers hold practical workshops with students, where they take what was previously trash and turn it into toys.
“If we instill in children the idea that they need to honor the lives that were lost from trees to make paper, the nature that was dug to extract oil, plastic, if we don’t tell children that they need to honor these materials that come from nature, if we don’t show this in practice, nothing will change”, says the Mathematics coordinator at Camino School, Maria Carolina Vilas Boas.
*This Saturday, starting at 10:45 pm, CNN Brasil will show the documentary Recycling: the waste route.
This content was originally published in Projects teach the concepts of circular economy on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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