'Green bureaus, schools' goals of Kuwaiti national society

Kuwait Environment Protection Society is involved in wide-scale activities aimed at minimizing harm to the national environment and treating harmful waste and beautifying Kuwait. Shedding light on the association latest activities, Khalaf Al-Enezi, a member of the society programs and activities, told KUNA on Wednesday that it added a plan in the program of "green schools," which is plantation of trees during the current academic year. The society is launching the program for teaching students of schools and pupils of kindergartens "the culture of planting trees in their schools and outside their houses," as well as how to preserve the planted and wild plants in the country, he said. Up to 25 elementary-level schools and kindergartens took part, in the past three months, in the program of planting trees, Al-Enezi said, indicating that this activity included workshops. Teams from the society were dispatched to the schools and trained the students on planting. Hundreds of students have been involved the beautification project and more schools are expressing desire to be involved in these activities. Earlier, the society declared that it had inaugurated third phase of its program, "green offices," with aim of minimizing harm to the surrounding and ensuring sound disposal of used items. Asseel Al-Thwaini, a member of the association, told KUNA that the program lured a large number of associations and establishments in the first and second stages of the program -- with keenness on involving the largest number possible of personnel. Workshops focused on rationalizing usage and recycling of bureaus' waste, she said, indicating at assembly of used plastic and papers items and recycling them according to standard methods. The third phase envisages recycling at the employees' homes and minimizing usage of materials that cannot be recycled, she added. This stage aims at encouraging usage of environment-friendly lamps and methods to ration water consumption. The personnel involved in the third stage of would be monitored for three months to examine any behavioral changes in favor of the environment protection.