Prior to the day of environmental protection, high school students from three regions of Ukraine met at the first All-Ukrainian environmental camp "School Recycling Camp 2019", which aims to form a caring attitude to the environment.

"For five days, 50 students of grades 8-10 from Mykolayiv, Kirovohrad and Kyiv regions, who are not indifferent to environmental issues, immersed themselves in an atmosphere of active summer recreation to talk together about environmental protection and have a good time. The program of the camp helps to understand that the main driving force in changing approaches to environmental issues is ourselves. And it doesn't matter where we are from, how old we are - starting with ourselves, the world around us will change. "- she noted Julia Marchel, author of the project and founder of School Recycling World. 

The event took place from June 3 to 7, 2019 in the recreational zone of the village of Mishkovo-Pogorilovo of the Nikolaev area. Participants took part in trainings, created art installations, organized cleaning of recreation areas in an unusual format. -blogging. 

The organizers of the eco camp are the international youth movement School Recycling World together with the public organization All-Ukrainian Youth Movement LETS DU IT UKRAINE (Let's do it, Ukraine) and KU Mykolayiv Development Agency with the support of PepsiCo Ukraine's general project partner. 

“PepsiCo Ukraine calls on the community to be socially responsible and to protect the environment. We are proud that Mykolayiv has become the first city in Ukraine where all schools sort secondary raw materials and hand them over for recycling. We are happy to support environmental initiatives. This camp was an incentive for the best Eco Patrol School Recycling teams, which during the school year conducted an environmental education campaign among peers and their families. ", – Valery Zhukov, Deputy Director of Public Relations and Public Relations at PepsiCo in Ukraine. 

The program of the eco camp included speeches by speakers, interesting master classes, board ecological games, many hours of outdoor leisure and immersion in the wild on the Ingul River and in the Tashkent Forest. 

In addition to daily environmental practices, the teens played in a forum theater, based on a real-life situation. 

"Forum-theater is a modern means of educating young people. It is a language that helps to develop the emotional spheres of consciousness and develop a creative approach to positive problem solving. "She emphasized Renchkovskaya Ksenia, head of the School Recycling World in Ukraine.

During the celebration of World Environment Day, young eco-activists created an installation "Earth is our future" about the aggressive use of natural resources and mass littering of the planet.

"One of the features of the eco-camppond Plogging is the cleaning of green recreation areas while jogging. Moreover, the blogging had the format of separate garbage collection, which was then sent for recycling. ", - he says Anna Ganjul, the head of projects of KU «Agency of development of Nikolaev», the freelance adviser of the Nikolaev mayor concerning implementation of separate waste collection in Nikolaev.

According to her, in order to get to the ecological camp "School Recycling Camp 2019", students took part in the selection. The best were given the opportunity to gain new experience in the field of environmental protection, the participants of the camp developed environmental projects that will be implemented next school year.