Parents of students considered it a practical solution to “storage indefinitely”
Remarkable demand for recycling textbooks
Old textbooks take up a lot of space.
Emirates today
The initiative to recycle notebooks and textbooks witnessed a remarkable turnout by the students' families, with the end of the school year, as they saw in it a practical solution to the storage problem that they had resorted to in the past years, and it caused them a lot of chaos because of the space it occupies in their homes, especially as it remains stored Inside bags or on shelves indefinitely.
Families of students in the eastern region told "Emirates Today" that large families, which include students in different academic stages, have more than 60 textbooks at the end of the school year, stressing that they used to store them for periods of time, and then dispose of them in waste containers.
The Emirates Foundation for School Education had assigned the administrations of public education schools in the emirates of the country to form an internal committee in each school to organize the receipt of student books for the benefit of the "Book Recycling" project.
The Foundation called on the students’ families and those in charge of the initiative to actively participate in it, given its goals and values that would confirm the importance of the textbook as a receptacle of knowledge that can be used and recycled, in a way that promotes a culture of sustainability and optimal investment of resources in the hearts of students.
The launch of the “school book recycling” initiative coincided with the end of the academic year 2020/2021, a translation of the national agenda items related to preserving and sustaining the environment.
The mother of three students and four students in different grades, Umm Abdullah, said that the amount of books and school notebooks at the end of each semester was causing her great discomfort, as she found herself unable to act in front of at least 100 books and notebooks, which were no longer prepared. to use.
She explained that the sight of books and notebooks stored in school bags or in the study room was causing her distress, noting that the school book recycling initiative helped her get rid of them in a way that protects the environment and rids them of the burden of accumulated books.
She stressed that she did not make any effort to transfer textbooks to places designated for recycling, as she contacted people affiliated with the initiative, and they came to the house, and transported them themselves, without having to make any effort.
Citizen Maryam Muhammad Al-Zaabi expressed her dissatisfaction with the accumulation of textbooks and notebooks at home.
She explained that "their appearance is not beautiful, as it cannot be stored in a library in an organized manner, because it is not used."
She said that her children get new books with each semester, noting that she used to store textbooks for the stage in which her youngest son or daughter would enter, in order to convey the answers.
But constant curricular change has prompted her to dismiss the idea of storage.
She emphasized that recycling textbooks teaches students the culture of preserving textbooks.
Citizen Muhammad Issa Al Hosani stated that disposing of textbooks incorrectly will negatively affect the environment.
He noted that “the behavior of some students in textbooks after the end of the final exams for the semesters is inappropriate,” referring to tearing them up or throwing them on the sidewalks or in containers.
He called for educating the student about the value of the textbook and instilling the value of preserving it in himself.
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