This project is an incoming generating initiative to promote community recycling, encouraging a shift in consumption habits and fostering sustainable practices. It creates collaboration between schools and businesses through a unified network for material recovery, diverting tonnes of recyclable waste from landfills while creating a cleaner environment and fostering sustainability.
Progress
- Engagement with collection partners to store recyclables
- Social media page and ‘Leaderboard’ launched
- Training with 25 local businesses
- Began active collection of recyclable materials across clusters
- Engagement of the State Ministries of Education and Environment
Highlights
We learnt early that we needed to build relationships with Government for credibility to bukld trust and open doors. We included them in events to feel part of it and be visible.
Also key was being personal, flexible and transparent in our approach, as well as focusing on diversity of people engaged and bringing different organisations together.
“The ‘Leaderboard’ has enhanced transparency, creating trust and motivation among.”
“We have to first touch the things that matter to people, like flooding.”
