Zero Waste

 

Knowing, learning and practising zero-waste is part of holistic life.

PSM children brought kitchen waste from home in order to learn pipe-composting methods.

Break free from plastic : After learning about the hazards plastic garbage inflict on the environment, PSM students vowed to reduce plastic consumption.

Students showing Tote-bag made out of old T-shirts.

Caring for the environment. Student created his won tote-bag from old T-shirt to keep his badminton racket.

Theeban Gunasekaran explaining the differences between plastic bags and cloth bags. Plastic bags take few hundred year to get integrated into the environment leaving behind toxic substances. Cloth bags are much safer as they last longer and environment-friendly.

“Plastic spoons that are detrimental to the living things are to be avoided at all cost,” says Theeban Gunasekaran of Consumers Association of Penang.

Higher level students experimenting with box-composting guided by their teacher                Tamil Selvi.

Students learning to segregate solid waste using boxes.

Vishalan with the bag he created with old T-shirt. He uses the bag to buy vegetables, good alternative for plastic bags.

 

 

Proper methods of discarding kitchen waste . Children learning how to compost with kitchen waste.

Moving towards zero waste : Students of Penang Suya Meiyarivagam vowed to use environment-friendly water bottles. For PSMs 2017’s annual program metal water bottles were given to each student.

Suseela Nagappan explaining the differences between plastic bottles that are discarded after each use and the plastic bottles that can be reused.

Learning in detail pipe composting methods with the help of a brochure.