School Based Waste Bank and the Efforts to Improve Student Environmental Awareness

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10.2991/978-2-494069-55-8_12How to use a DOI?

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waste bank; adiwiyata; environmental awarness

Abstract

Efforts Efforts to increase environmental awareness of natural sustainability can be carried at all school levels. Awareness of a healthy and clean environment is very useful for students and other shool members. The Adiwiyata school award is intended for schools that have succeeded in carrying out the environmental care and culture movement in the school area. One form of environmental care program at Adiwiyata school is the management of a waste bank. This article intends to document the waste bank program initiated by the Adiwiyata school at SMP N 2 Magelang as a form of environmental awareness for student. Waste bank is defined as a plasce used to collect sorted waste. The selesction of waste is intended to make it assist in dealing with the management of the generated waste. Integrated waste bank program by 3R (reduce, reuse, recycle) so that it can teach student from sorting to utilizing waste. All school residents participate directly, both teachers and students as customers. The concern of students can be seen from the various activities that have been carried out in processing waste and providing value for the existing waste. The use of waste has been integrated in the learning process, so that all students can fully implement it. The implementation of the program will provide a respectful behavior towards waste and at the same time reduce it. Success in increasing environmental awareness needs to be reviewed continuously by the school so that it can provide more significant changes (Abstract).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zudha Rahma Nur Azizah
AU  - Taat Wulandari
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/21
TI  - School Based Waste Bank and the Efforts to Improve Student Environmental Awareness
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference of Social Science and Education (ICOSSED 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 89
EP  - 95
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-55-8_12
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-55-8_12
ID  - NurAzizah2022
ER  -