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The initiative includes training materials and brigades benefit more than 2 300 students in circular economy and conservation of the environment.With the purpose of promoting sustainable habits and promoting behaviors responsible with the environment in educational communities in the Loreto region, on April 25, the Peruvian Amazon Research Institute (IIAP), an entity attached to the Ministry of Environment, launched the Solid Waste Management Educational Program in the framework of the circular economy and the conservation of the environment through the Circle of Research in Environmental Education.
The activities began with sensitization and training sessions on the segregation of solid waste, aimed at 80 teachers of educational institutions from different areas: I.E. Sagrada Familia and San Pablo de la Luz, located in urban and peri -urban area, respectively, and the I.E. No. 61501 of the Astoria hamlet (Amazonas River), in the rural area. Teachers received educational material about the classification of waste in the school environment and, in turn, transmitted this knowledge to 2 314 students between 3 and 17 years.
To facilitate learning and the correct application of solid waste segregation, a collection battery was delivered, composed of four 90-liter taches each, differentiated by colors according to the Peruvian technical standard 900.058: 2019-MINAM: Red for hazardous waste, green for usable waste, black for non-useful and brown waste for organic and compostable ones. In addition, adhesives were distributed with instructions to ensure that the waste generated by schoolchildren are deposited in the corresponding tacho. In this process, the students that make up the environmental brigades played a fundamental role in the monitoring and orientation of their classmates to achieve efficient segregation.
Among the initiatives developed in the classroom, the students of the primary and secondary levels made cardboard containers to collect used sheets of notebooks, promoting their reuse or recycling.
Likewise, segregated organic waste will serve to train students and teachers in the production of organic fertilizers, with the aim of improving green areas and living spaces in educational institutions. In addition, these waste will be used in the production of larvae of soldier fly (Hermetia Illucens), destined to the feeding of fish and poultry.
In the coming weeks, five new educational institutions will be added to the IIAP Environmental Education Program.
