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)