Gincana Recicla, held in Lages, Santa Catarina, involved around two thousand students. Eight municipal schools decided to make the city aware of the importance of environmental preservation.And the event runs until November, almost at the end of the school year.
The students, from elementary School, take all the recyclable material they can find to class. They are plastic bottles, packaging, cans, glass and paper. A truck from a cooperative goes from school to school to collect the objects.
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The objects are weighed and count points for the class and the school. According to the project coordinator, Professor Cristina Alves Ribeiro, the community also participates. All because of the influence of students.
“It's quite common for people who aren't students, or don't have children at school, to end up getting involved. They take the material to school because they know that the recyclables truck will pass that day. We have a specific calendar.”, detailed the teacher.
The initiative is from the Education Department of the municipality and is in its second edition.
Conscience
Student Letícia Camargo, from the ninth grade at the Santa Helena municipal school, receives help from neighbors to collect the material. “I ask if they have recyclables to collect, because we're doing a recyclables gymkhana, or if they want to leave it with me, I'll stop by,” she said.
Teacher Dadryhan Morghani, from the São Vicente municipal school, teaches sustainability to children in the first years of elementary school. The teacher tells how the themes are worked on in the classroom. It also reports how interest in the initiative has grown in the local community.
“Today I work in a slightly simpler, peripheral, more needy community, but it has a very large participation. The surroundings, the community, the parents, they bring a lot, they participate, they understand, ”she said.
Award
The result will be announced in November. The school, class and teacher who manage to raise the highest volume will win prizes offered by private partner companies. There will be multimedia projectors and tours for students. The winning school will receive a sum of money.
The first edition, in 2017, collected more than 63 tons of recyclables. The expectation is also to increase the number of participating schools. With information from MEC.
