This document outlines a community project aimed at promoting recycling and reuse of materials. The project's goals are to educate the local community on the importance of recycling through interviews, a fashion show using recycled materials, and informational posters. Project members created dresses from recycled goods for their fashion show, produced posters with ecological messages, and interviewed park visitors about their recycling habits. The interviews revealed that many locals reuse items primarily to save money rather than protect the environment, demonstrating a need for more education. The group achieved their goal of raising awareness and believes their work will encourage further recycling efforts.

1. Community Project
Buy
Use
Recycle
Ungheni Access Group
Ungheni, 2013
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2. Unfortunately people around the world are not accustomed
to make economies in everything they use: water, gas, food,
paper, boxes etc., especially the rich people. They are used
only to consume and not to think whether there will be
anything left for consumption for our children or not. The
idea of recycling and reuse should become a value for all the
communities in order to preserve the natural resources and
to give this world a chance to last.

3.  The big problems in the waste
management in our country as well as the
understanding of the fact that our citizens
are not well-informed about the
importance of recycling of materials made
us choose this particular issue to address
in our project.

4. Project Goal
To promote ecological ideas and to
use recycling materials in creative
ways

5. Objectives:
To interview people about recycling;
To make a fashion line out of recycling
materials;
To promote recycling ideas with the help of
posters with ecological messages.

6. 1. During the Youth Civic Engagement
Training we had the opportunity to learn
how to write a community project so that in
the end we would implement it.

7. 2. We decided how we were going to spend the
money and we wrote the Grant Application Form

8. TB activities made us be more united as a
group and taught us how to work together.

9. 3. We bought various recycling materials in
order to make some dresses out of them and started
to get ready for our fashion show.

10. 4. Then, we made some posters with ecological
messages in order to promote the recycling of
materials and to inform people about it.

11. 5. After working so hard, we had some pizza for
recovering our forces…

12. 6. In the end, we got dressed our models, took all
the posters and went in the park to ask people about the
way they use materials and to present our fashion show
aimed to promote the recycling of goods.

13. Feedback:
 Nicolae, 34
“I don’t really have to deal with household stuff, my wife does. I’ve
seen her reusing some containers or boxes from other products,
but I guess that’s it.”
 Maria, 53
“Of course I reuse all the materials I can use somewhere else, but I
don’t sort the garbage because in the region where I live there are
no separate containers for each kind of materials.”
 Elena, 28
“I can’t say that I reuse some of the materials. I didn’t know this is
a way of protecting our environment as well.”
 Ana, 45
“I think that in our country some people do reuse materials, but
they don’t do that because they want to protect Nature, but
because the need makes them to.”

14. Conclusions
 Our discussions with people in the park made
us understand that indeed people don’t know
very well what is recycling. If people reuse
materials, most commonly they do it because
they don’t want to spend money and not
because of their wish to protect the
environment. We believe that our presentation
gave them a new reason to continue doing that
for the sake of our planet.
 We achieved our goal. This makes us believe in
our powers. We won’t stop here.

16. To be continued…