Environmental Programs

Our program seeks to cultivate environmental protection awareness in students in an effort to instill a gradual development of habits that express concern toward problems of the environment. Consequently, students grasp the effects of global climate change, as the manufacture and waste of paper juice cartons contributes to greenhouse gas production and damage to ozone and forest. As the issue of climate change is widely debated in the world, it has become the major topic in many fields of the world including the economy, politics, and especially science and the environment at large. This activity not only guides the student to understand recycling, but also provides insight into a global problem and cultivates their ability to view the world.

HWB and Beijing Red Cross began the Recycling Project, which consists mainly of discarded paper juice cartons, in elementary schools of Beijing as of 2007 under the tremendous support of Red Cross Society of the Beijing Branch and Lile Company. As of 2009, this program is now established to in middle schools and eight districts of the city created from the original two, Haidian and Xicheng.

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During the Beijing Olympics in 2008, this activity further put forward a program known as “Adding Some Greenness to Beijing”, intended to provide students with an opportunity to combine their own habits of environmental protection with such an important international sports event. This program scored very good results, stimulated the enthusiasm of the students, and made them feel proud of engaging in environmental protection. It also laid a foundation for further activities to be carried out in-depth in the future. Therefore, this program is titled, “Green Life Starts From Myself,” as students involved in this activity could basically understand that small actions toward a greener life can be effectively contribute to global actions in mitigating climate changes.

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In 2009, as the incident of H1N1 ascended, primary schools became the important battlefields for H1N1. Therefore, the initiating ceremony of trash recycling was canceled. We didn’t intend to urge schools to implement the program, either. Our plan this year is that we don’t spread this program to schools but we support them who want to participate in package collection. Moreover, we recycled packages in time in order to shorten the garbage stay in schools.

As to the number of recycling, despite the outer environment impeded our program implementation, up to November 15, we had recycled 254,218 discarded package. The total number of recycling from Januarary to November was about 1,260,000, which had exceeded the number of 1,240,000 in 2008. The number of participating schools has doubled from 55 in 2008 to 112, which had achieved our desired objective. Even under the effects of H1N1 epidemic, 24 schools overcame all kinds of difficulties to persist in carrying out recycling plans.

Newsletters & Reports:

2009 Year Recap

Environmental Project Photos [PPT]

Environmental Project Presentation [PPT]

Green Recycling Beijing Project [PPT]