“Clean Dominicana” (Dominicana Limpia) is the name of the new education program that could become part the official curricula starting 2017-2018 schoolyear. Project coordinator Jorge Luis Bisonó says that the ambitious program that seeks to insert half an hour every week or an hour every 15 days so students can become familiar with sorting waste and recycling. Bisonó says the program was presented to President Danilo Medina and has the support of the Cervecería Nacional Dominicana, the Malta Morena malt and Presidente beer brewery. Bisonó says the goal is to reach 34,000 persons in the next three years.
“If we implement this program in the schools, we can teach students to separate garbage at school and then in six years recycling will be second nature to an entire generation of Dominicans,” he said.
He said they will be expanding the same pilot program that was successfully implemented in San José de las Matas, where he was mayor at the time. He said the children were taught to classify wastes using children’s books and talks.
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El Caribe
12 July 2017
