Good Humans aims to create environment stewards out of students as it kicks off recycling program in Nation’s schools

Good Humans aims to create environment stewards out of
students as it kicks off recycling program in Nation’s schools
Come September, Antigua’s newest not-for-profit organization,
“Good Humans,” will be promoting good environmental practices
across the Nation’s schools by spearheading a recycling project
among students.
 
The founder of “Good Humans,” Joshuanette Francis, says she will be
transforming shipping barrels into recycle containers and placing
them across the school compounds, ensuring that students have
easy access to dispose of their recyclable waste.
This initiative, described as a “Student Community Service
Programme,” will involve all 83 schools on island and kick off at the
start of the new school year.
 
Meanwhile, Francis says that over 300 barrels will have to be sought
to ensure that each school has a recycling bin. However, over 60
already have been collected for transformation, and the public’s
assistance is being solicited to secure the remainder.

Francis says the pilot of this project was launched at the All Saints
Secondary last term, during which over 35,000 cans and bottles
were recycled. The initiative then moved to the J.T. Ambrose School
and stretched to 27 other schools, she notes.
 
The “Good Humans” founder says that data on the recycling effort is
collected on a weekly basis to determine whether more cans and
bottles were being sent to the Cooks Sanitary Landfill.
 

Francis is excited about the project, which she says is being executed
out of love for Antigua and Barbuda. According to her, the
organization is creating environment stewards, and students will be
engaged in tree-planting exercises, volunteerism, and recycling.
 
In the meantime, she says that a target has been set for September
in terms of the amount of waste expected to be recycled.

Meanwhile, Francis says the organization has decided to integrate
the environment and persons living with disabilities, since climate
change and persons with disabilities cannot be separated.
 

All “Good Humans” programmes are focused on the environment,
and those at the forefront of the initiatives will be persons with
disabilities, she says.