The school had just opened and the students were very excited. It wasn't just the students who were excited. Teachers were also experiencing the excitement of the new academic year. 

There were also new students coming to the school. Stefany and Tery had just arrived in this town from another state. They greeted everyone and proceeded to their classrooms. 

The students in the class warmly welcomed their new friends. “Welcome to the students,” said Teacher Clementin, and spoke to them.

         The first lesson is over and the students are out. Stefany had a question and asked her friends:

(Aytaç Özbakan-Perşembe Vakfı Secondary School-By Sedef, Defne, Çağan, Yiğit, Yusuf, Ilgen)

"Why isn't there something in our classroom where we can throw all our trash away, instead we have separate tiny trash cans?"

Her friends told that these trash cans are for recycling and that nature is cleaner in this way. These recycling boxes attracted Stefany's attention. 

Stefany used to see recycling boxes on the roads, but she did not fully understand what was happening at that time, but according to her friends, these are glasses, bottles, batteries. and it helped to keep plastics and plastics separate, keeping nature cleaner. 

Tery and Stefany were more conscious now and they were collecting paper, glass, plastic and batteries that could be recycled in their homes and throwing them into boxes on the roads and in their classrooms.

Thus, they contributed to the cleaner and more useful nature.

(Özge ÇAKIOĞLU-Silifke Cumhuriyet BİLSEM-By Defne, Elanur, Belinay, Gülce Armin)

When her mother asked what they were doing, she said they recycle. His mother liked it. He said that we should recycle in our own country. 

Thus, fewer trees are cut down. When they returned to their hometowns, they recycled it and wrote this to everyone. 

Stefany liked the fact that it is eco-friendly in her home country. Tery thought the same thing. Both were very happy.

(Vedat ÇAKIOĞLU-Silifke Cumhuriyet BİLSEM-By Burak Aziz, Kuzey Alperen, Güner Nilda)

Stefany and Tery wanted that recycling to be practiced by more people. But they did not know how to make their voices heard. 

          First of all, they decided to inform their friends around them. Their friends also liked that they had experience in this regard. 

           Lucy, the neighbor's daughter, wanted to know about that topic. She asked them how to classify recycling bins. Strefany: "In offices, schools, there are places with separate bins for paper, glass, plastic, metal and general garbage. It's hard to keep so many garbage cans in houses. You can divide your garbage into recycling and general garbage and throw your glass, metal and plastic waste into the same recycling bin."

       Tery: " It is better to collect the papers in a separate box, as paper waste becomes difficult to recycle when it gets wet or food is contaminated with this waste.", Lucy: " I will make three separate boxes. Yes, this is a very good idea. Now we will have evaluated our garbage. I will share this information with my family and all my friends.''

            So Stefany and Tery returned home with the happiness of successfully completing one more task. But they had in mind the question of how to reach more people.

            (Hülya SEZER - Şehit Erol Olçok İmam Hatip Secondary School - By Nida, Eslem, Zeynep Ela, Fatma Vahide, Mariam, Zeynep, Nisa Naz, Kevser, Ecrin)

So, it is not easy to involve a lot of people but

our health and world health is the most important thing for us.

Students decided to make a group called GREEN TEAM and to involve more schools in this group and activities.

So, the group started to make a plan for involving more people.

First the group involved a lot of schools and all students have to be responsible with some towns, city, villages.

The group has to fix dates for informing the others about the importance of recycling. 

They put posters with separate bins and how to do it and explanations  about our health and environmental health.

This is the start and the next step is to involve the community. 

Stefany and Tery coordinated the activity and decided to talk with the heads of each community and politicians .

So , time for another plan.

 Alina Safta team School Tudor Vladimirescu, Târgoviște, Dâmbovița. ( Călin, Carla, Clara, Teea, Lucian(

Stefany and Tery wanted to make this event more visible; so they designed an international project. Within the scope of this project, secondary school students will participate in international project activities. Thus, they will have an idea about the recycling activities of different nations. The two friends started to write projects with excitement. They shared the idea of the project with the teacher Fernando and asked him for professional help. Teacher Fernando said: "You have thought very well guys. Recycling is very important for our world."

(Hamza Bahadır  ESEN/Yenişehir Anadolu İmam Hatip Lisesi/ Students: Elif, Esma, Zeynep, İrem Naz, Ecrin.)

    Stefany and Tery felt better after their teacher's motivational speech. They understood: "Our idea will raise awareness of the "environment" of many people from many countries around the world." When the two friends went to bed at night, they couldn't sleep because of excitement. The next day, they both returned to their school happily. They shared their project ideas with their friends. Thus, the project team began to form. The energy of the two friends almost spread throughout the school.

    (Zeynep ESEN/Yenişehir Anadolu İmam Hatip Lisesi/  Students: Arife Zehra, Esra, Zeynep Naz, Zeynep Ceyda, Reyyan, Esmanur, Fatma Simay, Beren, Zeynep Elanur, Buğlem Ilgın.)

    As a result of their meetings, they started to review the decisions they made, especially about recycling. There were a lot of comments about recycling. Stefany assigned her friends to implement the decisions they made in the tree house. All five friends divided the work between them to make the world more livable and reduce pollution. Tery was the person who took the most responsibility in the division of labor. On the subject of recycling, posters were hung on the billboards in their neighborhoods in the form of what should we do to make our world more livable, let's say stop to pollution, paper and plastic are not garbage.

    Stefany and Tery's friends also supported this project. When they came home from school, they shared what they knew about the importance of recycling with their families. They told their families that thanks to recycling, many animals' lives could be saved and our world would not be polluted. In this way, climate change could have been prevented. They started to share about recycling on the internet, and they created awareness for people living in different parts of the world.

    ( Yeter TANDOĞAN's team : Gökmen, Ali Yiğit, Ömer, Hasan, Serhat, Mehmet Zübeyir, Salih Yenişehir Anadolu İmam Hatip Secondary School)