Plastic waste and consumption

After the long period of school closure due to corona, the project week on the topic of "plastic waste, consumption and recycling" could finally take place before the summer holidays! Three fifth classes from Andersen Grundschule (Andersen Primary School) took part and spent a whole week diving into the 12th goal of the Agenda 2030 "Sustainable consumption and production patterns".

After a three-day online introduction that took place in spring 2021, the children already knew a lot about the topic at the beginning of the project week. Nevertheless, they were quite surprised to hear that large parts of the plastic waste from Germany are not recycled at all - but instead end up in large landfills in Asia! The team of LHS Futureworks was supported by two experts from the programme Education Meets Development (Bildung trifft Entwicklung), who shared their own experiences in the field of development cooperation.

And of course, the pupils of Andersen Primary School were also able to get active themselves: In a clean-up action, they collected rubbish and thus campaigned against environmental pollution in their neighbourhood. Not only that, in an upcycling workshop they also practically learned what the three R's - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle - are all about, and transformed plastic waste into great sculptures. Finally, digital media were created around the topic of plastic waste: the "Müller Game" on clean-up actions in the neighbourhood, a song about plastic waste and a video in which the children ask passers-by in Wedding about their knowledge of waste and consumption. You can find all the results here at the bottom of the page!

The project was finally completed in September 2021, when World Clean Up Day takes place every year - and this time, the Andersen pupils were part of it! Together with 14 million other people in 191 countries, they collected rubbish from their environment, which was then professionally disposed of. A successful wrap-up for this project!