The students of Ether & Space (Class VI) decided to work on educating people about the harmful effects of plastic bags. They conducted a survey of local shopkeepers and learned that while shopkeepers were aware of the environmental impacts, customers demanded plastic bags. The students started making paper bags from old newspapers to distribute to shopkeepers. They also made posters and notices and distributed cloth bags to shopkeepers, customers, and helpers in the local market to promote using paper and cloth bags instead of plastic. Through this project, the students learned that educating customers at all levels is important to reducing plastic bag usage.

2. SEEDS OF CHANGE

3. PLANTING MORE TREES TRAFFIC CONDITIONS GARBAGE DISPOSAL STREET ANIMAL CARE When we got to know about the Design For Change Campaign we all sat together during our “ CIRCLE TIME” . We came up with various ideas. ROAD CONDITIONS EDUCATING THE LESS PRIVILEDGED THINKING BRAINS ILL-EFFECTS OF PLASTIC

8. So we started making paper bags from old newspapers. It was a huge task as we had to make lot of paper bags. We felt we are living in a paper bag factory! WORKING TOGETHER

9. WORKING TOGETHER We also made notices and posters.

10. On Friday, 1 st October 2010 ,14 of us went to the South City-1 market and handed over paper bags. Shopkeepers were delighted to receive the paper bags and promised to use them. MAKING IT HAPPEN

12. MAKING IT HAPPEN During this distribution of cloth bag we realized that most of the shopping is not done by the house owner but it is the helper who goes to the market. Therefore we distributed cloth bags to them also.