RONO HILLS, Mar 18: As part of the Global Recycling Day 2026 celebration, the Department of Education, Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) carried out an awareness campaign at its campus here today to make people aware about the benefits of recycling.
The United Nations took an initiative to celebrate March 18 as Global Recycling Day to make people around the world to sensitize towards the issue of the severe impact of waste products.
Aligning with this UN initiative, the department of Education took up the cudgels to encourage RGU dwellers to consider waste as a resource and recycle the waste, to protect nature and natural resources. RGU Campus being a hilly area has a fragile ecosystem. The recycling lowers greenhouse gas emissions and protects the RGU ecosystem.
This year UNO has identified “recycling Heroes and youth participation” as a potential theme. In this regard, the students of BEd 2nd semester, Pedagogy of Science students took this opportunity and roamed around the campus including hostel, departments, teacher quarters and labour colonies, and appealed to the local people to be part of the campaign, recycling waste, with a focus on minimum use of plastic material and maximize the use of reusable material in their daily life so that the environmental degradation could be prevented to make the planet earth healthy to live on for all living beings.
Supported by Prof Boa Reena Tok (HoD), the initiative saw Dr Sushant Kumar Nayak design the recycling campaign and Hulam Khoilang (class captain) coordinate the event with other science pedagogy students to make it a successful one.