A bag full of expired medicines separated by the mother, it was what the student Talita Maísa Cardoso, 10 years old, took to Engenheiro Waldyr Luiz Becker Municipal School, on Jardim Coopagro. She and other children of the educational institute had the opportunity of giving the right destination to expired medicines, batteries and electronics.
The initiative is from Prati-Donaduzzi Environment team, which carried out on Tuesday (2nd), the Global Action Day, another activity from Prati Sustainable project that has been developed by the pharmaceutical industry along with Toledo City Hall for three years.
Through the action, 10 kilos of medicines were collected, in addition to batteries and electronics. “We explain to the students the action aim and the importance of not discarding these materials in regular waste, but making their right destination”, explains Prati-Donaduzzi environmental technician, Faneza de Oliveira, who emphasizes that all collected materials will be incinerated.
For the headmaster Marisa Salete Todescatti, the work developed on Global Action Day reinforces the activities that are already carried out by the school through environmental marathon, which encourages the collection of paper, cans, batteries, used cooking oil. “We work with environmental awareness from Pre-school I to the 5th grade of elementary school and the right drug destination was an issue we did not use to work at school, but now the students have already learned more about it. The project came to add to the actions we have developed during the school year, always by aiming to care about the environment”, she points out.