Mateřská škola Bohumilice

School name

Mateřská škola Bohumilice

City

Bohumilice

Country

Czechia

Challenge taken

Plastic waste reduction

Year

2025

Shortly describe your project

Project: "We don't waste plastic"

Project objective:

  • To reduce plastic consumption in our kindergarten
  • To raise awareness of active plastic reduction among children and parents

Target group:

Kindergarten staff, children, parents

Project scope

  • Preparation of an audit and action plan – May 2025
  • Developing specific changes and preparing the project – June 2025
  • Implementing the project – school year 2025/26

Specific project outputs:

  • Purchasing food in reusable mesh bags or cloth bags
  • Purchasing lunch boxes for children who leave after lunch. The boxes will also be used for trips outside the kindergarten
  • gradual replacement of plastic tableware for children with porcelain or glass tableware
  • production of leaflets for parents on how to effectively reduce waste at home, motivation through purchases such as cloth bags that children can paint themselves
  • preference for natural materials when choosing new aids and toys • Use tap water instead of water in plastic bottles
  • In next year's annual Ecology project, focus on sorting and reducing plastic consumption in general • Streamline waste sorting overall, purchase suitable waste bins for this purpose
  • Dispose of organic waste in compost (coffee grounds, eggshells, fruit and vegetable peels)