Community Composting Initiative
Students designed and implemented a food-waste diversion system that has kept more than 4,000 lb of food waste out of landfill and helped launch a community composting pilot.
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Students designed and implemented a food-waste diversion system that has kept more than 4,000 lb of food waste out of landfill and helped launch a community composting pilot.
Students grew seedlings, prepared seeds and ran a community plant stall. The project connected the school with local people and helped establish an ongoing student Envirogroup.
Middlesex students joined local schoolchildren and hundreds of other volunteers to plant 1,800 trees across three community Tiny Forests. Students also joined plans to monitor tree growth with citizen scientists.
Graduate research students worked with the Girl Guides Association Malaysia, Selangor branch on a community service project creating an eco-reflexology garden and sharing sustainability knowledge.
Business students research food waste, design awareness campaigns and run interactive activities for the wider university community, connecting course learning with practical action to reduce food waste.
Students turned food scraps and dry leaves into compost and demonstrated the method to students from other schools, reducing waste and showing families a lower-cost alternative to fertiliser.
More than 45 students planted trees across a 10-dunum site at Tal Rumman, creating a new planted area and contributing to local environmental improvement.
Newly enrolled students repainted a block of eight classrooms at Police Children Primary School, giving the school buildings a renewed learning environment.
Students take part in practical service including building houses with Habitat for Humanity, supporting orphanages, painting schools and churches, and cleaning beaches.
Students learn climate-smart farming and volunteer during school breaks to pass practical methods to families and communities; the wider programme also supports clean-ups, solar ovens and lower-water farming.
Students joined local residents in a community clean-up, physically improving the surrounding neighbourhood.
Students joined neighbouring university students in an environmental clean-up around Tangaza and nearby communities.
Students and staff take part in the recurring Clean Up Lugbe project, removing litter and improving cleanliness in the surrounding community.
Student Scouts carry out monthly environmental service around Moshi, including litter collection and cleaning public areas.
Students made food for Cathedral Kitchen, supported older residents at Cambridge Rehabilitation Healthcare Center and carried out environmental service-learning activities.
Students, staff and alumni worked on more than 30 community projects across Los Angeles, including planting a native micro-forest and cleaning veterans' headstones.
Engineering students delivered tutorials, school supplies and environmental activities for children in Barangay Bito-on during a two-day community outreach project.
University students worked with a primary school and completed educational activities and a CSR wall-painting project to improve its learning environment.
Students supported local livelihoods through product and packaging work and joined marine conservation activities, planting soft corals and releasing juvenile crabs and cuttlefish.
More than 400 pupils contributed over 2,223 hours, including litter collection, beach and walkway cleaning, literacy work and packing bags for people experiencing homelessness.
Students designed and planted a community tree project with Putney Community Gardens. Thirteen fruit trees were planted across three estate sites and students helped create a maintenance plan.
Twenty-six students worked with teachers and municipal workers to remove litter from Gorai Beach, taking direct action against marine pollution.
Year 5 pupils completed a beach clean at Pink's Green, removing bags of litter and debris before investigating local marine biodiversity and pollution threats.
Year 4 and reception pupils helped plant 22 trees, including native and fruit trees, as part of the North East Community Forest's school planting programme.
Pupils and teachers carried out a beach clean with River Rangers and received equipment to continue removing litter and monitoring water quality at their local beach.
Students, educators and partners planted trees selected for local soil and climate conditions as part of a youth-led environmental conservation project.
Students, teachers and other participants cleaned the school compound and surrounding community areas in a practical sanitation and environmental responsibility exercise.
Hundreds of young people joined students and UN peacekeepers to clean the school environment and plant trees; the school's student Nature Club also promotes environmental action beyond the campus.
Students, teachers and volunteers planted fruit and indigenous trees to restore green cover and took responsibility for nurturing the seedlings as part of a conservation programme.
Students, teachers and partners planted and adopted fruit and indigenous trees to restore green cover and strengthen practical environmental stewardship.
Twenty students worked with the local KENARI coastal community group to plant mangroves and clean Mangunharjo Beach as practical coastal conservation and disaster-mitigation action.
Students worked with another university team and local residents to plant mangroves in Terapung Village, supporting coastal resilience and climate adaptation.
More than 2,000 new students took part in mangrove replanting around the university area, contributing directly to protection of marine and coastal ecosystems.
Around 150 participants including university students and partner organisations removed approximately 15–20 kg of polyethylene and plastic waste from Ambakandawila Beach.
Students, staff and community partners planted 858 tree seedlings and 1,700 mangrove propagules through community projects supporting biodiversity and coastal protection.
Seventy student and staff volunteers planted 1,000 mangrove trees and released 700 baby turtles, directly supporting coastal ecosystems and biodiversity.
Forty-five students worked with the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority to plant 52 native shrubs, improving habitat and greening the school environment.
Students planted more than 700 native trees on Ponui Island after nurturing the seedlings at school, contributing directly to ecological restoration and native biodiversity.
Students joined families and other volunteers to remove rubbish from the Onehunga foreshore, reducing waste that could harm marine life and improving the public reserve.
Year 9 students planted 1,435 native tubestock plants in Bassendean wetlands, helping restore wildlife habitat and strengthen the local ecosystem.
Students volunteered at weekends to remove invasive plants, plant native species, move seedlings and undertake pest control with community ecology partners at Rosedale Park.
Students worked with Mitcham Council to plant native trees in a reserve near the school, improving habitat for local wildlife and the health of a shared community green space.
Students took part in a community clean-up on the Lake Jindabyne foreshore and then worked with council on an anti-litter campaign to protect local public spaces during the tourist season.
Fifteen students collected six 20-litre bags of household waste along about 1 km of streets near the university; the student group also conducts monthly local clean-ups.
Around 50 university students carried out street clean-ups, public engagement and a plastic-pollution campaign in the Sageun-dong neighbourhood during a month of action.
About 32 students from four universities carried out a street clean-up around the university area alongside a public campaign about reducing plastic pollution.
Around 120 university students from four Busan universities cleaned litter and plastic along approximately 6 km of Gwangalli coastline to support protection of blue-carbon ecosystems.
Students and parents joined an environmental clean-up after an eco-volunteer activity, with 32 participants collecting 35 bags of litter from a community forest.
An Irkutsk State University student volunteered for 11 days helping clean heavy fuel oil from the Black Sea coastline after the Kerch Strait tanker disaster, including work at Inzhir beach.
University student volunteers travelled to the Krasnodar region and joined the large-scale operation removing fuel-oil contamination from the Black Sea coast.
Students carried out a coastal clean-up with environmental organisation iSea and collected 56.5 kg of conventional waste from Karabournaki beach.
Students undertook a year-long WWF Adopt a Beach project combining repeated beach clean-ups with marine-litter monitoring and environmental awareness work.
Students developed a low-paper and low-waste action plan and carried out field studies of seawater, marine litter and coastal ecosystems at Marikes Beach.
University social-work students worked with 25 primary pupils and community volunteers in a practical sapling-planting project at the university campus.
Students organised and participated in a tree-planting event with the Regional Directorate of Forestry as practical action within their carbon-footprint reduction project.
Student volunteers run repeated beach clean-ups with local residents; the programme reports 143 clean-ups and 2,500 participations over five years.
Thirty Chinese and international student volunteers worked in a village and protected area, planting more than 100 student-raised tree seedlings after preparing the ground.
Students worked with community volunteers to remove litter from the Jialing River bank and sort collected waste, contributing directly to local river protection.
Student volunteers from the Blue Ribbon Marine Conservation Association cleaned litter from the Nanhui New City coastline as direct action for marine ecosystem protection.
Students and university staff joined a large-scale environmental clean-up as part of the national Taza Kazakhstan campaign, improving the local environment through direct practical work.
Students worked with environmental organisations and the regional ecology department to remove an illegal dump in Ust-Kamenogorsk as part of Taza Kazakhstan.
Students combined a large-scale community beach clean with scientific marine-litter work and public environmental communication, linking school action to Porto's coastal ecosystem.
Primary-school students took part in a physical beach-cleaning action at Praia do Forte as part of European Maritime Day activities.
Around 200 students took practical environmental action: primary pupils cleaned a velodrome and playground while middle-school students collected litter from a beach and nearby public grounds.
Students, teachers, residents and volunteers cleaned classrooms, cleared drains and removed accumulated waste from Medina Gounass Elementary School before the start of the new academic year.
Students worked with more than 40 businesses, the council and community groups to create pollinator corridors across New Ross rather than limiting biodiversity work to school grounds.
Students planted a new pollinator habitat with conservation and community partners, transforming an outdoor space into a living biodiversity resource.
Students worked with parents, volunteers and the Guelph Horticultural Society to restore a pollinator garden, adding bulbs and milkweed and planning pollinator houses.
The student-led Green Team is transforming underused lawn into an in-ground pollinator garden supporting bees, butterflies and urban biodiversity as a visible community asset.
Students maintain a Butterflyway pollinator garden through summer and care for plants over winter as part of a student-led environmental programme.
Gardening Club pupils planted a community orchard with teachers and Omeath District Development as part of the local Biodiversity Action Plan.
Agroecology students worked on recovery of the Turia river ecosystem using soil, water and vegetation analysis alongside environmental awareness activity.
Students, with partner education centres, transformed temporary school buildings into healthier and more stimulating environments through practical graphic and educational interventions.
Construction students restored the flood-damaged playground at IES 25 d'Abril in Alfafar, applying technical skills to improve accessibility and the school environment.
Children created an explanatory film and participatory theatre, taught other school and kindergarten children about food waste and ran a public information stand outside a supermarket.
Students took responsibility for an abandoned, invasive-species-filled local garden, studied its biodiversity and birds, analysed observations and proposed practical solutions.
Pupils created a plant nursery and compost and helped make a documentary as part of their hands-on management and protection of a local marine educational area.
Pupils investigated threatened seagrass habitat and the local marine food chain as part of managing and understanding their educational marine area.
Students formed a Greenish Club and carried out practical environmental activities including constructing a greenhouse and developing a Green Guide to encourage sustainable action in the school community.
Students participated in citizen-science monitoring of terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity and water conditions in the Rio Doce Basin.
Students contributed to school-community citizen science focused on biodiversity and water monitoring in the Rio Doce Basin.
Participating schools generated real-world measurements for projects on urban air quality, weather and hydrometeorological risks, and the Earth's magnetic field.
Learners and staff entered three sheep and produce grown through college horticulture work in the public Penistone Show. The college reports three animal-care awards and ten horticulture awards.
Volunteers collectively care for a community orchard, learn fruit-growing skills, share the harvest and run public events. The project combines practical environmental work with learning, wellbeing and community connection.
Volunteers are transforming the grounds around Platt Hall and part of Platt Fields Park into shared growing and wildlife spaces. Neighbours work together, learn and build connections while improving a public place.
Residents cleared canals and roadsides, planted 300 flowering trees, and gained 60 solar-powered lights plus warning signs to strengthen disaster preparedness and environmental safety.
The community restored local biodiversity while strengthening traditional practices, sanitation and livelihood opportunities around the bay.
The community-led forest project protects a 13,594-hectare buffer landscape beside Gunung Leuser National Park while supporting local livelihoods and resilience.
Local people reclaimed swampy degraded land around Afio Primary School, creating cleaner landscaped grounds and reducing mosquito-related health risks.
About 1,000 learners removed a tonne of waste from the Diep River Catchment through a City-backed environmental challenge.
Communities reforested 51.7 hectares, created ten natural-resource committees and developed climate-resilient livelihoods; 1,130 people were directly reached.
Community members joined a hands-on clean-up of a Klipspruit tributary to remove pollution and protect local water resources.
Residents use low-cost sensors and local observations to collect air-quality evidence that can support community discussion and environmental action.
Residents collect local air-quality and traffic data, helping communities understand pollution patterns and contribute evidence to environmental decision-making.
Community volunteers organise practical clean-up and environmental actions to remove waste from shared public places and encourage local responsibility for the environment.
Community members work with schools, researchers and institutions to observe local environments, use shared methods and turn observations into evidence that can be returned to communities and connected to wider research.
Volunteer-run allotment association managing six sites and supporting growing, wildlife and practical community work.
Community seed library where residents borrow free seeds, grow them and return saved seed for future users.
Seven-library network offering free organic open-pollinated seeds plus growing, seed-saving and swapping activities.