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Clean Rivers Experience in Prievidza

The organization team met at 1pm - they went shopping for refreshments and brought it, together with the material needed for the waste collection, to the meeting point, which was by the JYSK shop. From 1:45pm, the other participants started to gather, and together 24 volunteers attended the event. The group included members of the Youth Council, young volunteers from the CVČ, members of some of the pupil’s councils of primary and secondary schools and also some employees of these schools came along. Even two parents came to help. At the beginning, Michaela Šálová, the vice president of the Youth Council, welcomed everybody, introduced the organization team and explained the aim of the event. The H&S instructions and the course of the event were given by the koordinator of the Youth Council, followed by distribution of the refreshments, protection gloves and rubbish bags. After some photos of the team were taken, everyone went to Močidlá, Prievidza- Kúty, and collecting of  waste started along the banks of river Nitra. The team splitted into two groups - one was following the right and the other the left bank of the river, and in three hours the participants cleaned approximately three kilometers along the banks. This area included one abandoned meander and a part of the newly built cycling road, where the garbage was also picked. Together 23 bags were collected, that is approximately 165 kg of waste. Besides plastic and glass bottles, various building materials, carpets, old clothing, plastic food containers, small sculptures, cans, paper boxes, bongs made of plastic bottles and also one shopping basket, which we returned to shopping market Kaufland, were found.

Clean River Experience Nová Baňa

On June the 3rd 2021 our school took part in the worldwide project ‘Clean River Experience’ for the first time. We decided that together we will clean a stream, which flows right outside the gate of our school.

Because we came to learn about the project at the last moment we had almost no time left for a campaign, thus we used our own capacity, meaning that 10 teachers and their 120 pupils cleaned the stream on the day together. 

While cleaning, two enthusiastic citizens joined us as well.

We put on rubber boots and protective gloves, took rubbish bags and went to the stream, where pupils from the 7th and 9th grade started with the cleaning. It was among these pupils where a few devotees of the cause were found who did not hesitate to enter the stream and take all the alluvial waste, which was captured by its small dam, by hand. After this first group, pupils from the 1st up to the 5th grades carried on with the work. If you only could see the happy smiles on their faces when they managed to pull out a big piece of rubbish! Some catches were truly impressive - a big polystyrene panel, a metallic kitchen sink, an old bicycle… 

Together, we collected approximately 150 kg of metallic waste, 50 kg of common waste and a few kilos of polystyrene and plastic material.

All the collected waste we brought then to the school yard near the stream, where we separated it, and finally we brought it to the access road from where it was taken by the employees of the collection yard in Nová Baňa on the same day.

By this way, I would like to express my thanks to all of you who took part, and I believe that everyone will with a pleasure remember this event, as what could be better than to teach the kids the ecology in practise.

Clean River Experience Tekovská Breznica        

The cleaning of the banks of the river Hron, where it passes through Tekovská Breznica, was joined by approximately 50 pupils of higher grades of the local primary school. Apart from the river banks that were accessible, the pupils also picked rubbish along the local Chválenského stream, which is a tributary stream to the river. The pupils splitted into groups according to their classes, and together with their class’s teachers were cleaning the mentioned areas. They collected approximately 120 kg, where the majority of the waste were plastic bottles, cans, food packaging and plastic bags. The biggest pieces found were a string grate or parts of a car. Protecting gloves and rubbish bags were provided by the municipal office, and all the waste was then taken to the local collection yard by parents, who volunteered to do so.