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New Taipei City elementary students missioned to promote green awareness

New Taipei City elementary students missioned to promote green awareness

June is not only a graduation season but also marks the moment of passing on green wisdom to their juniors in New Taipei City. A total of 110 kid commissioners representing the New Taipei City Environmental Protection Department has been recently elected and given missions to promote environmental awareness at schools and in their communities.

The local government’s Environmental Protection Department (EPD) Director Liu Ho-ran said recently in a handover ceremony between past and the new kid commissioners that their mission is to promote environmental awareness, spread knowledge of recycling and reducing carbon footprints, and to turn people’s awareness into action, accordingly making a better world.

Liu noted that there will be no magical solution or quick fixes in reducing environmental pollution but each kid commissioner’s action will make a difference, adding that the New Taipei City’s cutting-edge program of “the 12 Lessons for Kid Commissioners of Environmental Protection Department” is the first of this kind in the country that seeds young minds to be eco-friendly with environmental education. After completing the program, they have been qualified to receive the certificate of election, and their job is about to begin.

These kid commissioners receive the mission to pass down knowledge to their peers and develop good ideas to reduce the amount of waste they produce and throw away. The job did not come easy. They had to first convince their peers that they are capable of developing great ideas and turning them into action under their leadership. These ideas have to be workable and will be able to be adopted by their schools and communities, such as the idea proposed by Xizhi’s Tungshan Elementary School student Lee Yun-chen to host flea markets to exchange the unwanted or unused items for money in order to reduce waste accordingly.

The department indicated that the education programs will empower and ensure these elementary school students to communicate the right messages with their peers and their parents; the department said it is looking forward to the changes made by their every single action.