The group met at nine on Friday morning in front of the hotel for a waste-picking operation on the banks of the river that runs next to it.

The waste was collected by the students and placed in each designed container according to its colour code and the students were abkle to see first-hand how Germany is pursuing a dedicated and diversified policy of recycling waste.

Our host for this activity was employed by the city of Hanover to conduct awareness campaigns and sensitize people to the collecting of waste and notably micro-plastic particles.
Thanks to microscopes that were handed to them, the students saw by themselves that the river water carries a considerable amount of these particles in spite of what may appear at first sight as clean water. These intrusive plastic particles interfere in a harmful way with the local fauna and flora and are weighing in on the life of humans.

A great amount  of waste was collected including glass, cardboard, wrappers and plastic elements.
 

Lunch was taken in a restaurant in the town centre with all the teachers partaking in the project attending and some free time was granted for a tour of the city centre while some headed for the town's gardens.