Ecoclub in Edouard Herriot school, France, how does it work?

  • "Le club des écodélégués" in Edouard Herriot school in France

    The ecoresponsible group meets once a week every Friday during lunch break.

    The group is composed of 12 students from 10 to 15 yo. They all are volunteers. The school education advisor is their adult mentor.

    They are taking care of the school garden, they created recip, they are in charge of collecting and recycling papers, bottle tops and old pencils as well as collecting biowastes (coffee, cutgrass..)and to put them in the biocollector in the school garden. They organize awareness campaign to promote waste sort at the school canteen and reduce wastes (bread..).

    The team has received eco-labels (prizes) from the academy and even edited a book with recipes created with a chief out of vegetables grown int he school garden.