Eco-Rom Ambalaje Magazine Issue No.12 May - July 2014 | 页面 5

Eco-Rom Ambalaje Awards Prizes for Winners of the 2nd ECOlimpycs for Students On June 5th, 2014 Eco-Rom Ambalaje and the Environment Committee and Ecological Balance of Chamber of Deputies (ECEB) handed in awards to the most creative students who participated in the 2nd ECOlympics, aer almost 6 months of lessons about separate collection and the recycling process. O n June 5th, 2014 Eco-Rom Ambalaje and the ECEB handed in awards to the most creative students who participated in the 2nd ECOlympics, aer 6 months of lessons about separate collection and the recycling process. ﬔis year, the program was expanded to 33 communities, where more than 17,800 3rd and 4th grade students followed the textbook “We Learn How to Recycle Packaging!”. Aer their teachers explained the content of the textbook, students used what they learned to write essays full of imagination, where packaging waste begins a new life due to separate collection and recycling. More than 700 3rd and 4th grade classes participating in the project were represented in the final stages of the competition by the student with the best essay in their class, according to the teacher. Awards were presented to the winners during a ceremony hosted by MP Carmen Moldovan, President of the Environment and Ecological Balance Committee with the Chamber of Deputies and attended by parents and teachers. One hundred prizes were offered, consisting of multimedia devices for the winners of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places, and schoolbags for the honorary mentions. “Studying, access to information and practice are the three most important pillars in getting healthy habits. Our re- i understood that each of us is responsible for the waste we produce. we can’t throw everything away everywhere, we can’t be indifferent to what we leave behind. there is this simple rule we should follow, if we want and truly care - nothing is lost, everything is reused, so, recycle! Excerpt from the winning essay peated actions may have a positive or negative long term impact on the environment. ﬔrough these educational projects, we are trying to make students understand that they need to become more responsible towards the resources they use - and separate collection of packaging waste followed by recycling is a great step forward towards a cleaner environment. We appreciate the efforts made by responsible manufacturers, to support ecological education in as many Romanian schools as possible. We wish to see the information these students get by participating in the ECOlympics being turned into just as many environmental protection activities”, said MP Carmen Moldovan, President of the ECEB. ECOlympics for Students is a complex endeavor aiming at familiarizing Romanian students with separate collection of pack- aging waste. ﬔis educational program is run in partnership with the Ministry of National Education and integrates two components: a teaching line and a practical line, meant to create a more dynamic teaching process and stimulate competitiveness at the school, local and national level. “Caring for the environment is not hard this is our lesson for the 2nd year in a row, via the ECOlympics for Students. ﬔerefore, in the textbook we provide for Romanian schools with our partners’ help we show kids how easy and fun recycling packaging waste can be. Congratulations to the winners and the many teachers who joined us, over 700 teachers and county inspectors, and supported the 2nd ECOlympics for Students”, said Sorin Cristian Popescu, General Manager of Eco-Rom Ambalaje. 5 Page by Lorita Constantinescu, Public Relations and Communication Director