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Schools Go Green, With The Help Of Toyota Print E-mail
Saturday, 10 October 2009

The programme to instill love for the environment and environmental awareness among secondary school students has seen Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Dato' Onn Butterworth coming out at the top of its national counterparts. The programme, called the Toyota Eco Youth Programme 2009, is a collaboration between UMW Toyota Motor Sdn Bhd and the Education Ministry since 2001.

The Dato' Onn team, led by Form Four student Muhammad Ahza Mohamad Desa, and comprising seven other members, came up with a viable and effective project to reduce, reuse and recycle water in their school, winning RM5,000 for their effort.

The school's project addressed the high water bill in their school by fitting more efficient spring-loaded taps in the toilets to cut water drip, harvesting rain water for reuse and recycling laundry water using micro- organisms for watering the school garden. A supervising teacher, Chek Ramlah Abdul Samad, said through the 3Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle), the school managed to reduce its water bill, previously amounting to RM600 a month, by 34.8%, from the initial target of 20%.

UMW Toyota Motor executive director, Aminar Rashid Salleh, was reported to have said at the closing of the competition that the Toyota Eco Youth Programme had raised awareness and appreciation for the environment among the young. After nine years of its implementation, the company's annual corporate social responsibility programme had benefited 136 schools involving 912 participants, he said.
 

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