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Recycling Champions

Recycling champions are those who take care of the planet and protect the future of future generations by committing to recycling and caring for the environment.

1

Create a team of "Recycling Champions"

Make a team of participants who are interested in learning to care for and improve the environment where we live and share with nature and animals. Appoint an adult to carry out the tasks of calling and teaching the activities.

Involve a girl or boy as a project leader who can adequately and inspiringly communicate to their peers the activities to be carried out

Make a team of participants who are interested in learning to care for and improve the environment where we live and share with nature and animals. Appoint an adult to carry out the tasks of calling and teaching the activities.

2

Read the instructions to become a recycling champion

Once you succesfully complete the 30 day challenge of ChangeX, the Culture Box team will contact you to send you the detailed instructions for implementing the program. Understands and transfer information about environmental care and waste management with the team as an introduction to the activities. Prepare the materials and organize with your team the days and times that the eco challenges will take place.

Culture Box project will support you with up to 5 hours of virtual training/ support to plan your project execution. 

3

Talk about recycling

Talk about recycling with your team and share ideas about the importance of taking care of the planet by separating garbage and turning it into new things. It is very important because this way we can prevent garbage from polluting the air, water and land. Let's team up with the planet and recycle together!"

 

4

Do the eco challenges as a team

 

The eco challenges consist of 6 activities that promote a culture of caring for the environment to generate agents of change as guardians of the environment.

  • RECYCLE: Implement waste containers for recycling in your school or community
  • LID WITH MESSAGE: Make a mural alluding to the care of the environment with the use of plastic lids
  • REUSE YOUR IMAGINATION: Create a toy from waste by encouraging the use of creativity and care for the environment.
  • RECYCLING RACE: Carry out the recycling race to strengthen the learning of waste separation.
  • MESSAGES FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: make a poster or drawing about caring for the environment and waste management, spreading a message in your community.
  • RECOVERING SPACES WITH YOUR IMAGINATION: Identify the spaces to recover within your school or in your home: Invite your team to identify the spaces in your school that need renovation or improvement and explain to them how they could do it using recycled materials.
5

Celebrate success, spread the word and share

When you have recovered the spaces with recycled materials, celebrate their success and thank them for their commitment and dedication to the project. You can also organize an exhibition so that the other students and teachers can appreciate the work done by your team. Invite other people to do some of the activities they did. Spread your photos and videos on social networks with messages about caring for the environment. Share your experience with us.


About Recycling Champions

"In the municipality of Solidaridad Q, Roo we work every day to care for nature and the environment. This work is made easier and friendlier because we work hand in hand with a very interesting project called Culture Box who, with the DHBUS PROJECT tools, provide training to children, youth, adults and seniors on caring for the environment through recycling and they do this through interactive and very fun workshops where participants are involved in a culture of how we should take care of our environment."


Teacher. Javier Basurto Campos, Director of Education, Human Development and Municipal Public Libraries
Teacher. Javier Basurto Campos, Director of Education, Human Development and Municipal Public Libraries

Great for

  • School/ community center/ community
  • People who can contribute to caring for the environment and become a recycling hero through small daily actions.
  • Creatives who can help find new ways to reuse or recycle materials and foster innovation in sustainable practices
  • People who are willing to work with others and encourage active community participation.

Time

The installation of the containers, the eco challenges and recovering a space in your school and/or community will take your team between 4 and 8 weeks. A weekly commitment of 4-6 hours will ensure that you carry out all activities successfully.

Resource checklist

  • Build a participatory team
  • Read the instructions and information
  • Find a space where containers can be placed to protect it from rain or animals.
  • Get up to 5 hours of support to implement the project from the Culture Box team