Organising poster-making competitions, encouraging students to make speeches, signages warning about the use of plastic -- these are some of the ways through which schools in the national capital are creating awareness about the ban on single-use plastic that kicked in from July 1.
The resident welfare associations (RWAs) are also doing their bit by making their members aware about the ban. The principal of a government school in Shahdara said that they have been working to create awareness about the single-use plastic ban among students by talking about it in the school assembly. Now that schools have reopened after the summer vacations, they will impress upon students the importance of using alternatives to plastic.
Similarly, another government school in north Delhi is planning to organise poster-making competitions, speech competitions to highlight the importance of the ban.
"We have been talking about the ban to our students in the assembly but we plan to hold competitions on the issue. Students learn about something very quickly if they get to know about it from their peers. For instance, if a student will give a speech about the plastic ban issue, his friends and other school students will take a note of it while if teachers tell them, it would sound a boring lesson for them," he said.
The principal also said that they have asked students to desist from using plastic bottles and disposable glasses and use their alternatives for the sake of the environment.
In May, the Delhi government had issued an order asking all schools in the national capital to set up a separate room within their premises to store reusable utensils as part of its plan to phase out single-use plastic (SUP).
