The schools that were successful in the “Schools Are Competing for Zero Waste” competition, organized by Selçuklu Municipality with the aim of raising the environmentally friendly generations of the future, received their awards on World Environment Day.
Selçuklu Municipality continues its efforts without interruption to instill environmental awareness from an early age and to spread the culture of zero waste throughout society.
In the organization, which included 60 schools, students brought the waste they separated at home to their schools on the designated days each week, while the collected waste was weighed and received by the municipality’s recycling teams.
At the end of the competition, a total of 206 thousand kilograms of waste was brought into recycling.
4,997 students competed to rank in the categories of the class collecting the most waste and the school collecting the most waste.
Mayor Pekyatırmacı, “We will build our future together with our youth and children”
Expressing that he was happy to be together with students at a meaningful event on World Environment Day, Selçuklu Mayor Ahmet Pekyatırmacı said, “Our young people are very sensitive about the environment and are truly very interested in this issue. We are very happy because of this interest of our young people. Because we will both build and save our future together with our youth and children. In this sense, the work we carry out regarding the environment and zero waste is very important. This activity, which we have carried out in all our schools throughout the year since the beginning of the year together with our Provincial and District Directorates of National Education, helps our children gain environmental awareness in a stronger way. We have now brought 206 tons of recyclable waste into the economy and saved it from being waste that harms the environment. Therefore, I congratulate each and every one of our schools, administrators, teachers, dear children and of course their families who participated in this competition. This year, we created two different categories: the school collecting the most waste and the school collecting the most waste per student. But hopefully, we have a new goal for next year. We will now give different gifts to our schools according to the amount of waste they collect. We will not only determine the first, second and third places. We will give different gifts and awards to all our schools participating in this competition according to the amount of waste they collect. Our goal is for all schools in our district to participate in this competition. This year, 60 of our schools participated in the competition. But I would like all of our 205 schools to participate in this competition and, for all of them to receive awards. Once again, I congratulate our children and families. I know that our families also make great contributions to these competitions. I congratulate and thank, one by one, our school administrators, teachers, our Provincial and District Directors of National Education, and the team of our Zero Waste Directorate, who have made great efforts in the organization of these competitions.”
