Recycling project in Finland

At Jakomäki School it was the eight graders (pupils at the age of fourteen) that preoccupied themselves with the world of recycling. The first phase was getting information about what is done with waste in Finland and especially in the metropolitan area of Helsinki. The geography teacher, Julia Tapanainen, and the biology teacher, Suvi Niskanen, catered for all kinds of activities (games, quizzes, crossword puzzles) and sites for the search of information. Also, the three classes received informative lessons given by a consultant from the Metropolitan Area Recycling Centre.

Below, we have attached photos about our studies in recycling.





Secondly, the pupils remodelled clothes (t-shirts, jeans, cardigans, jackets) in the handicraft lessons.











The third phase will be carried out next autumn. First, our pupils will visit the local recycling centre and then, after receiving a more many-sided picture of recycling, they will organise a “swap day” in our school. The idea of the day is that each pupil brings a thing she/he has not got any use for any more, but somebody else might find the thing useful. So everybody brings something he or she wants to get rid of and at the same time, has a chance of finding something useful instead. Then, if there are things nobody finds useful, such things will be taken to the recycling centre and sold to customers there.

Recyclers in Helsinki