Within the environmental education programme in Latvian educational institutions, the “Zaļā josta” in collaboration with largest environmental institutions and green thinking companies are organising secondary raw material collecting campaign “For Clean Latvia!” (Tīrai Latvijai!) by inviting to collect used batteries and waste paper. During the campaign, school and pre-school age children are not only involved practically by collecting waste paper, cardboard, and also used batteries, and delivering it to recycling, but also with the help of various educational activities are taught to reduce the waste that they are producing and to take care of the environment.
The campaign “For Clean Latvia!” invites pre-schools, general education and professional educational institutions, and also interest-related educational institutions of Latvia to participate. The registration of participants will be held from 10.12.2018. until 29.12.2018., by registering school in the homepage of campaign www.tirailatvijai.lv.
Waste paper collecting contest
Used battery collecting contest
With the collection of waste paper and batteries, participants of the campaign are not only competing against each other, which educational institution will have collected and delivered the largest amount of secondary raw materials, but also are giving an important investment in promotion of environmental education in public, in improvement of waste sorting culture in Latvia, and also creates important base for municipal waste sorting implementation in educational institutions, and also in households.
Each year campaign “For Clean Latvia!” gathers thousands of children and youth from all over Latvia. Motivation to participate in the campaign is not only because of environmental awareness, but also because of the wonderful gifts for the most active secondary raw material collectors provided by “Zaļā josta” and main supporters of competition. Moreover, all participants of the campaign, regardless of the results in competitions, receive a special invite to go to the grand winner award ceremony of the competition, where next to popular Latvian musicians’ performances will be different free of charge creative workshops, games and competitions.
Secondary raw material collection campaigns of “Zaļā josta” have become an annual tradition in educational institutions. In the previous school year more than 100 thousand children and youth from all over Latvia participated and they collected and gave to recycling more than 1049 tonnes of waste paper and 35 tonnes of used batteries. Thus, they have managed not only to give resources a new life but also saved a whole forest from being cut down, saved a remarkable amount of electricity, water and CO2, and also protected environment from potential pollution with heavy metals.
The campaign “For Clean Latvia!” is organised by “Zaļā josta” in collaboration with companies “Līgatnes papīrs”, “Balticfloc”, “AP Kaudzītes”, “Latvijas valsts meži”, “Latvian Amusement agency”, “BAO”, “Pilsētvides serviss”, “Apgāds Zvaigzne ABC”, the National Centre for Education, mobile telecommunications operator “Amigo”, the Rīga Zoo, the Natural History Museum of Latvia, the Līgatne Nature Trails and portal e-skola.lv.
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