Environmental Education

Plastic Academy

UpcycleLab Space to Rebuild Non-Organic Waste Materials Into New Innovations

This upcyclelab space involves the process of transforming waste materials such as woods, steels, plastics etc. into new materials or products perceived to be of greater quality such as used plastics being transformed into new products such as chairs or keychains. As waste issues are becoming more extreme, our objective is to reduce these waste issues by upcycling these waste products and make use of them by modifying or turning them into a new product. We received contributions from donors who intend to get rid of their old equipment or house appliances during a campaign such as festival house cleaning. Every donation will be rebuilt either for the development of our store or upcoming innovations. The donors are of course rewarded for the contributions with any of our homemade products.

Beneficiaries : Local communities

Impacts :

• Amount of plastic waste upcycled: Approx 200-500kg
• Unit of recycled house appliance: More than 100 units

Educational Children Book Series

The start of our book project came from the idea of creating awareness and cultivating interest towards environmental conservation and sustainability from young age, especially when workshop cannot be organized during this pandemic time. We wish to cultivate this idea starting with our younger generations; the children focusing on the age of 7 – 12 years old through reading. Our book project consists of 7 series, on a story of an Axolotl, a type of an amphibian “walking fish”, named Mr. Axolotl Smith the 3rd (nicknamed Alex) on his journey to tackle the issue of waste management that has been going around our life. This book project is accompanied with a fun and adventurous Do-It-Yourself mini waste project that children can do at home. The 7 series books are on the topics as such; Plastic Waste, Food Waste, Paper Waste, E-Waste, Textile Waste, Metal Waste and Glass Waste. To date, the full draft of Book Series 1 and 2 are almost completed.

Targeted beneficiaries : Children age 7 – 12 years old