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The Trees of Our Town

2012 San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Students from N2 Ricardo Pannunzio Secondary School, with special orientation in arts, presented an awareness contest about the local trees.

In order to promote the need to become aware of environmental care, they suggested cultural activities and calendars to spread the word. They prepared a photograph competition with the theme “Local Trees”.

The contest was open to all students of San Antonio de Areco watershed schools. Each student could present up to three photos. More than 120 photos were presented. The 13 winning photographs were chosen by the Jury. These photos were used to create the 2013 calendar that was distributed in the local area (library, schools, museums, etc.)

These 13 winning photographs will be part of the 2013 exhibition of the Museum Las Lilas (in San Antonio de Areco) and, as it was proposed, they will also be displayed at nearby community exhibitions.

In order to broadcast their contest, this team worked side by side with another group of students that also won the CFW contest by creating a Facebook account.

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Recycling of Plastic Agrochemical Containers

2012, San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires, Argentinarecycling agro cont 1

The main objective of this project was to avoid contamination of the environment by providing a solution for the disposal of empty plastic containers generated by agricultural activities. This is a problem that concerns this basin due its large amount of farming activities. A survey was used to confirm the uncertain destiny of these plastic containers, and the proposed solution was to create a small drum warehouse where the producers can drop off the used drums to be recycled.recycling agro cont 2

The warehouse was built with the help of Caring for our Watersheds and donations from farmers and other local companies. The landfill space was donated by the San Antonio de Areco municipality, who will be also responsible for managing the area. These containers will be collected and recycled by a company that produces bumpers for trucks, pipes to cover fiber optic cables and industrial product containers.