Kolkata – On the 22 April, Mahadevi Birla World Academy (MBWA), Park Circus, Kolkata, played witnessed a paper making workshop, conducted by Earthsmiles.net as part of the organisation’s Return2Life program. The aim of this workshop was to set up a permanent paper recycling unit - manned by the students themselves. A uselful and fun project, once the art of making paper was learned by them.

Once the students learned to recycle paper on their own, a regular supply of paper from the school office and from Filebins in each class room (Clike here to know about Filebins) would sustain the project. Recycling in-school is vastly more eco-friendly than sending paper to paper recycling plants - there is no huge machinery or transport carbon footprint, and the water used is also negligible compared with a waste processing (recycling) paper plant. No dangerous chemicals are involved either, further showing the Planet love! is involved as the children can bring the waste papers from their house when they come to school and it provides the children with an extra-curricular activity to participate in during their free periods and other times allotted by their school.