Last December, on account of investigation of resources, the Geography students cleared out the recycling room. We first started off by taking out everything which was in the room, including all the cardboard boxes, papers, styrofoam, plastic bottles, etc. and then patiently organized them into separate boxes. The room wasn’t in proper order as the school was closed for a couple of months due to the covid pandemic. It is important to keep the premises clean and tidy, especially at a place where there are crowds of people. So after everything was sorted out properly, we also managed to sweep the whole room and then pile up the boxes tidily. 

Later the other day, we made a field visit to the Pelawatta Scrap Dealer. It is a 400m distance from the school so we made a quick walk, while the organized recycling stuff was carried by a truck. We provided them with our boxes of trash and as their first activity they extensively analyzed the solid waste materials to avoid items they wouldn’t accept. In reality, the styrofoam was returned because they couldn’t recycle it. Every other type of waste was weighed separately, whether it was cardboard, paper, metal, or other items; and for each kilogram an actual amount of money was granted to us. In our recycling collection, we had paper, cardboard, plastic bottles with a total mass of 39kg; and the scrap dealers agreed to pay us Rs.30 for every kilogram. We obtained a great sum of 1170 rupees as a result of this, which is well worth it for the trash.