‘Green hour' in schools to keep Thiruvalla clean
Staff Reporter
‘Green and Clean City' by municipality and Macfast
An hour every week in schools for eco-protection training
PATHANAMTHITTA: All schools, including Anganwadis, within Thiruvalla municipal limits will soon launch a weekly ‘green hour' as part of the ‘Green and Clean City' initiative jointly launched by the municipality and the Mar Athanasios College for Advanced Studies, Thiruvalla (Macfast).
A meeting of various school authorities held at the municipal town hall in Thiruvalla on Tuesday decided to launch the drive with a view to imparting environment conservation training to children, said Fr. Abraham Mulamoottil, chairman of Pushpagiri Group of Institutions, who is also the chairman of the Green and Clean City project.
Talking to The Hindu, Fr. Mulamoottil said the mission was to make Thiruvalla a model, waste-free, green, and clean town through a systematic environment awareness campaign with active people's participation.
He said the proposed ‘green hour' would help make children and the staff of schools aware of the importance of eco-friendly waste management and keeping the environment clean. Fr. Mulamoottil, who was the Principal of Macfast till a month ago, had effectively implemented the scheme on the college campus.
Municipal chairperson Lynda Thomas said the local body and Macfast would jointly organise awareness seminars on environment at all educational institutions in the municipal limits. The municipality would also initiate punitive measures against callous dumping of garbage at public places, disregarding the directions of the local body, said K. Sudheer, municipal secretary.
Fr. Muklamoottil said “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Refuse, Repair, and Rethink” are the six ‘R's constituting the base of the project which encouraged a decentralised mechanism for waste management, propping up the idea to make wealth out of waste.
Implementation of concepts such as bio-parks, green schools, eco parks, knowledge centres, etc. in a phased manner would give more thrust to the project, he said.
According to him, green waste management was a boon to the environment as it used techniques that disposed waste in an eco-friendly manner. This strategy would lead to an interim scenario of barest minimum of waste generation that needed to be disposed at the source itself and, ultimately, to the concept of ‘zero waste.'
Staff Reporter
‘Green and Clean City' by municipality and Macfast
An hour every week in schools for eco-protection training
PATHANAMTHITTA: All schools, including Anganwadis, within Thiruvalla municipal limits will soon launch a weekly ‘green hour' as part of the ‘Green and Clean City' initiative jointly launched by the municipality and the Mar Athanasios College for Advanced Studies, Thiruvalla (Macfast).
A meeting of various school authorities held at the municipal town hall in Thiruvalla on Tuesday decided to launch the drive with a view to imparting environment conservation training to children, said Fr. Abraham Mulamoottil, chairman of Pushpagiri Group of Institutions, who is also the chairman of the Green and Clean City project.
Talking to The Hindu, Fr. Mulamoottil said the mission was to make Thiruvalla a model, waste-free, green, and clean town through a systematic environment awareness campaign with active people's participation.
He said the proposed ‘green hour' would help make children and the staff of schools aware of the importance of eco-friendly waste management and keeping the environment clean. Fr. Mulamoottil, who was the Principal of Macfast till a month ago, had effectively implemented the scheme on the college campus.
Municipal chairperson Lynda Thomas said the local body and Macfast would jointly organise awareness seminars on environment at all educational institutions in the municipal limits. The municipality would also initiate punitive measures against callous dumping of garbage at public places, disregarding the directions of the local body, said K. Sudheer, municipal secretary.
Fr. Muklamoottil said “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Refuse, Repair, and Rethink” are the six ‘R's constituting the base of the project which encouraged a decentralised mechanism for waste management, propping up the idea to make wealth out of waste.
Implementation of concepts such as bio-parks, green schools, eco parks, knowledge centres, etc. in a phased manner would give more thrust to the project, he said.
According to him, green waste management was a boon to the environment as it used techniques that disposed waste in an eco-friendly manner. This strategy would lead to an interim scenario of barest minimum of waste generation that needed to be disposed at the source itself and, ultimately, to the concept of ‘zero waste.'
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