Barter market: parents can exchange used school supplies for vegetables

The Secretary of the Environment (Sedema) of Mexico City, through the Directorate of Environmental Culture, urged guardians and parents to exchange used school supplies for vegetables, plants and other objects in the exchange market that will have take place on Sunday, May 14. August, in the forest of San Juan de Aragon.

The above, in order to notebooks, books, cardboard and other educational materials made of cardboard or paper receive a final destination that avoids contaminating as little as possible.

María del Rosario Campos Berumen, Deputy Director of Education for sustainabilityinvites families to make the most of school items that are made with natural resources and therefore need to be maintained, reused, recycled and have a correct final destination during this holiday.

“You have to use them to the maximum, that is to say use them to the maximum to learn, avoid leaving blank pages, use them double-sided; keep them in good condition, reuse them and/or give them away, as much as possible. The manufacture of these school items requires raw materials, a large amount of water, energy and polluting chemical residues, so it is important to make the most of them and help them reach a destination where they can be transformed and reused,” he said.

Campos Berumen argued that a simple way to avoid excessive contamination is to separate paper items such as books, notebooks, white sheets, colored sheets, cardboard, cardboard from plastic ones such than pens, markers, games of geometrypen, sticky pencil, plastic ruler, geometry set, calculator, text marker, brushes, pen and pencils.

“We must take into account that, whatever their material, they must never be mixed with organic waste. The material with which they are made can contaminate more or less from their manufacture to their final destination. Plastic bags should be avoided in school activities, along with single-use plastics such as straws, polystyrene and foam, among others,” he said.

Since 2019, Mexico City has implemented the Zero waste plan through which it seeks to move towards a city without waste in 2030 through the reduction of waste generation, the separation of waste in collection, the sustainable management of waste and its use for energy, as well as the formation of an environmental culture and the transition to a circular economy.

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