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The Waste Challenge: SLP2024 Week 3 Activity

With most student field visits now complete, we’re launching into our Week 3 activity: The Waste Challenge.


As you know, the Sustainability Leaders Program (SLP) focuses on promoting and achieving 100% source segregation of waste. Over the next six weeks, we’ll also be building important life skills:


  • Critical Thinking through assignment writing

  • Creativity with poster creation, storytelling, slogans, or doodles

  • Digital Skills by learning to create PowerPoint presentations

  • Initiative through personal or team-based sustainability activities

  • Public Speaking with students presenting their PPTs, telling stories, or explaining their posters


For the Waste Challenge, students will identify a waste-related issue in their school or neighborhood, examine the stakeholders involved—those responsible for creating the issue and those affected by it—and propose a solution with a clear desired outcome. Finally, students will take a pledge to work toward positive change.


Weekly assessments will be carried out by school nodal teachers, who will compile assignments into a PDF with the school name, showcasing the best submissions at the top. The SNTs share with the district nodal officer who shall upload it on the provided drive link along with some high-resolution webinar pictures. Students will be assessed, acknowledged, and awarded in several categories:


  • The top-performing students in each school

  • The best-performing school nodal teachers in each district

  • The “Sustainability Leader School” of the year in each district

  • Potentially, recognition for the best-performing districts


As an example of a waste challenge, I developed “Ecologs,” a renewable cremation fuel made by combining cow dung with shredded coconut shell waste to replace tree wood in cremations.

Let’s keep up the momentum and make an impact together!


Happy Festival Greetings!!



Recording of Session: https://youtu.be/twe4c1trJrE



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