ROME (ITALPRESS) – An innovative environmental education project included in the broader program of “AMAperlascuola” activities. This is “Waste Travel 360º”, the virtual journey into the world of waste and recycling created by Ancitel Energia e Ambiente (EA) and dedicated to primary school children. The closing event of the 2023/2024 edition of the project, which involved 5,454 students from 273 classes, was held in the “De Chirico” room of the “La Vaccheria” art/museum center. Present at the initiative were the Councilor for Agriculture, Environment and Waste Cycle of Rome Capital, Sabrina Alfonsi, the President of Ama SpA, Bruno Manzi, the Managing Director of Ancitel EA, Giuseppe Rinaldi and the Councilor for Public Works, Mobility and Municipal School IX, Paola Angelucci.
Through “Waste Travel 360º” third, fourth and fifth grade children can take a real immersive journey inside waste recycling plants. The aim of the game is to explain to the little ones the importance of correct waste separation. Helping the students to orient themselves is the mascot avatar “Amandino”, a small dinosaur who is very attentive to the environment, in addition to the activities to be carried out in class with the teachers. For councilor Sabrina Alfonsi “the planet’s resources are not unlimited and therefore we absolutely must valorise and reuse materials through the culture of recycling and the circular economy. Today’s children will be tomorrow’s adults, aware citizens who are entitled to our duty to deliver a sustainable environment.” “Children are our best allies in environmental education and also our teachers because they are very often capable of teaching adults eco-sustainable behaviors by conveying positive messages on the good practices to follow to correctly separate waste”. – underlined the President of Love Bruno Manzi. Ancitel Councilor Giuseppe Rinaldi finally recalled that “in a country like ours which is poor in raw materials, the valorisation of secondary raw materials brings enormous environmental and economic benefits and the ambassadors of the recycling culture are precisely the smallest ones”.(ITALPRESS ).Photo: Ama press office trl/com 22-May-24 16:21 .
