Here’s a new twist to the concept of working students.
Public school students participating in a two-year-old recycling program are to be issued passbooks where they can list credit points.
“This allows public elementary and high school students to earn money or get free school items when they bring in their recyclables,” reports Rhodina Villanueva on Philstar.com.
“The National Ecosavers Program is a recycling campaign launched by the government in 2012 in a bid to reduce garbage from schools and households,” it adds.
The program’s initial phase involves 1.9-million students and is continuously being expanded.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources has turned over 250,000 passbooks to the Department of Education and is targetting distribution of one million passbooks within the year, and 900,000 more in 2015.
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