Control of polythene use in schools – MoE to conduct programme
View(s):The Ministry of Education (MoE) is to introduce a programme to control the use of polythene among schoolchildren, in keeping with national plans to restrict its use. Under the programme, instructions will be issued to form a group in each school to check on the unnecessary usage of polythene and promoting the reduction of its usage.
“Students who bring polythene lunch sheets will have to take them back home, while they will be encouraged to bring lunch boxes instead of using polythene sheets,” said a senior MoE official. He said that, in order to create awareness among students, classrooms will be given points and a colour code to identify classrooms which have reduced the use of polythene.
The schools will be instructed to collect discarded polythene and hand them over to collecting centres.
Another project would be to encourage students to produce paper bags to be supplied to schools and shops located nearby, and earn money. He said the objective is to convey the concept through the students to the parents and eventually help in the national plan to reduce the use of polythene. (DW)