Recycling trash into treasure

Learners at Ambrosius Amutenya Primary School (AAPS) were declared the winners of the Eco Warrior Challenge last weekend.The title was awarded in recognition of the incredible recycling efforts of the learners at the school.The competition, in cooperation with the Recycle Namibia Forum, aims to teach children the importance of recycling. The goal of recycling is to keep the environment clean and reuse old materials for new projects.In the case of the Eco Warrior Challenge, an item had to be created with recycled materials. The winning project, spearheaded by AAPS learners, involved bottle caps.Namibian flagThe learners used almost 7 000 discarded bottle caps in the colours green, white, red, blue and yellow to create a bottle cap mosaic of the Namibian flag that stands about two metres tall.AAPS principle Mara Beukes expressed her pride in her school's efforts, saying: "This is how we roll at Ambrosius Amutenya Primary School."The art piece was met with awe from viewers, who were impressed by the beauty and size of the project.Fun and interactiveThe Recycle Namibia Forum is a non-profit association with the goal of promoting recycling initiatives all over Namibia.The Eco Warrior competition offers a fun and interactive way of teaching children how to recycle.The challenge has been very successful and has helped rid the country of a large amount of waste – not just moving it to garbage dumps – but creating beauty from the rubbish in ways that inspire onlookers to recycle as well.

Recycling trash into treasure

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