Stemming from the fact that plastic bags and plastic bottles in the school yard are increasing day by day, a group of teachers and students from Ngo Quyen Secondary School (Long Khanh City) came up with the idea of making ecological bricks. After nearly 4 months of implementation, nearly 2 bricks have been created.
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| Eco-brick products for bookshelves, tables and chairs of the Plastic Bottle Recycling Club at Ngo Quyen Secondary School (Long Khanh City). Photo: H.LOC |
Products are used as library bookshelves, flower beds, tables and chairs and many other useful items.
* Make bricks from garbage
Periodically after the weekend class, students of Ngo Quyen Secondary School (Long Khanh City) have extracurricular activities by cleaning the school yard. Seeing a lot of water bottles, snacks, styrofoam boxes, and plastic cups, PE teacher Vu Son Lam thought something should be done. From here, Mr. Lam went online to learn and know how to make ecological bricks. In February 2, the Plastic Bottle Recycling Club, headed by Mr. Lam, was established.
All confectionery shells, styrofoam boxes, plastic cups, instead of being thrown in the trash like before, are cleaned, dried, cut into small pieces and then tightly packed into plastic bottles. This method not only treats plastic waste in the school yard, but also creates bricks used to build buildings.
Mr. Lam said: “Initially, I only used plastic waste in the school yard; After that, I cooperated with the School League to launch 1 student to make 1 ecological brick every week. Thanks to that, the number of bricks increased rapidly, up to now, there have been nearly 2 bricks.
According to Mr. Lam, each 500ml plastic bottle eco-brick contains about 200g of plastic bags, 1,5L bottles can contain 600-700g of plastic packaging waste. The more products, the less plastic waste in the environment.
Nguyen Hoang Tra My, class 9/4, a member of the Plastic Bottle Recycling Club, said that at first, she could make 3 bricks in a week, but later, it took 2-3 weeks to make 1 because of the bag.
less and less nylon. “I collected plastic bags at home, asked for more from neighbors, cleaned, dried, stuffed them tightly into plastic bottles and brought them to the League. I like this activity because it contributes to reducing plastic waste and protecting the environment” – Tra My shared.
As for Tho Gia Hieu, a student of grade 7/6, he is interested in the product because he does not need to have a teacher or an adult to support him. With big plastic bags, plastic cups, foam boxes, I use scissors to cut them into small pieces so that they can be easily inserted into plastic bottles. The easiest way to do this is to squeeze it from bottom to top, from the rim to the inside of the bottle, using a chopstick or long stick to stuff it as tightly as possible. Finally, close the bottle cap tightly and you're done, don't worry about getting wet and absorbing water inside.
* Replication
Mr. Lu Thanh Doi, General Manager of Ngo Quyen Secondary School, said that this is an extra-curricular activity that creates excitement for students. Instead of listening to the theory, the children directly collected garbage and made bricks themselves. Seeing that the product with their name on it was used as a bookshelf, a chair, the children liked it very much. Next school year, the League will continue to maintain this extracurricular activity to contribute to cleaning the environment, creating more bricks for meaningful works.
Currently, the model of making eco-bricks from plastic waste is no longer encapsulated in the Plastic Bottle Recycling Club but also in neighboring schools and students' families. Some coffee shops and soccer fields, seeing this useful work, also collect plastic bottles and plastic packaging to donate to the club. As a result, the situation of plastic waste on the roadside worsens the landscape, causing sewer blockages to be significantly reduced.
According to Mr. Vu Son Lam, the current difficulty is not the plastic bottle but the material to stuff it into the bottle. Therefore, the team encouraged the students to make their own eco-brick at home during the summer vacation or collect plastic bags, styrofoam boxes, and plastic cups in their families to submit to the brick-making team at the beginning of the new school year.
"Our main purpose is not to create a lot of products, but to contribute to reducing plastic waste that pollutes the environment, helping children form a "green" lifestyle since they are still in school," said Mr. Vu Son Lam.
In the coming time, the club will cooperate with a number of organizations to make a globe out of ecological bricks located in the park, to make flower beds and chairs to propagate people to know how to reduce plastic waste by sorting and reusing.
Plastic pollution has now become a global problem. With this way of making ecological bricks, each person, each family can reduce plastic waste. The product is easy to make, has high applicability, and has outstanding durability because the material is a non-biodegradable object in the natural environment. Hopefully, in the future, there will be many schools, families and organizations that also make ecological bricks for environmental purposes.
Hoang Loc
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