Don't throw your waste away - make ART not pollution

Project "Don't throw your waste away - make ART not pollution" aims to raise awareness of waste management issues among students, parents and members of the local community. The project was created as a reaction to our students' dissatisfaction with pollution of natural localities around the city in which they live. The project also resulted from the success of smaller one-off events focused on environmental problems, which were evaluated very positively by students and teachers, and by the motivation of teachers to unite and pool these individual activities into a comprehensive, longer-term project. With our project we want to provide students with practical education in the field of environmental education focused primarily on waste management, recycling and upcycling. The aim of the project is not only to present the issue, but to change the thinking of the individual through practical experience in waste collection, recycling and upcycling. Another aim of the project is to compare waste policies at the location of the participating schools, which is in Přelouč and the areas of Ankara. We want Czech and Turkish students to be inspired by each other to increase their civic engagement in protecting the locality they live in and to motivate their family and the wider community to do so. The project participants are mainly students aged 12-19 years, who actively approach to environmental protection and are interested in environmental protection in their free time.