{"id":13642,"date":"2012-03-12T15:19:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T15:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/overview-and-progress-the-young-activist-club\/"},"modified":"2024-05-12T10:26:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T10:26:54","slug":"overview","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/overview","title":{"rendered":"Resumen y avances: el Club de J\u00f3venes Activistas"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13642","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-article","initiatives-composting-for-community","impact_areas-climate-and-environmental-justice","authors-ilsr"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":9312,"background_color":"","article_type":[134],"initiative":15,"display_event_fields":false,"display_case_study_fields":false,"start_date":null,"end_date":null,"start_time":null,"end_time":null,"time_zone":"America\/New_York","virtual_event":false,"location":"","locality":"","state":"","topics":false,"impact_areas":[16],"abstract":"

The Young Activist Club started as an after-school PTA-sponsored club at Piney Branch Elementary School in Takoma Park, Maryland. In fall 2008, student members decided to focus on their school\u2019s disposable styrofoam lunch trays and work toward implementing an alternative solution. The students researched problems with polystyrene and found that their lunch trays are burned in … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","authors_tax":[622]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

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El Club de J\u00f3venes Activistas comenz\u00f3 como un club extraescolar patrocinado por la Asociaci\u00f3n de Padres y Maestros (PTA) en la escuela primaria Piney Branch, en Takoma Park, Maryland. En oto\u00f1o de 2008, los estudiantes miembros decidieron centrarse en las bandejas de poliestireno expandido desechables de su escuela y trabajar para implementar una soluci\u00f3n alternativa. Los estudiantes investigaron los problemas relacionados con el poliestireno y descubrieron que sus bandejas de comida se quemaban en la incineradora de residuos del condado de Montgomery, lo que causaba contaminaci\u00f3n. Tambi\u00e9n aprendieron que el poliestireno se fabrica a partir del mon\u00f3mero estireno, un neurot\u00f3xico conocido y sospechoso de ser cancer\u00edgeno para los seres humanos. A continuaci\u00f3n, el club consigui\u00f3 el apoyo del director, la Asociaci\u00f3n de Padres y Maestros y el personal del comedor para cambiar a bandejas lavables y duraderas. Como parte de este trabajo, el club identific\u00f3 los costos iniciales necesarios para comprar bandejas duraderas y equipo de lavado, y document\u00f3 c\u00f3mo el cambio supondr\u00eda un ahorro para la escuela a largo plazo.<\/p>\n

La Fundaci\u00f3n Takoma apoy\u00f3 el proyecto con una subvenci\u00f3n y financi\u00f3 un estudio de viabilidad que se complet\u00f3 en 2009. El Club de J\u00f3venes Activistas recaud\u00f3 m\u00e1s de $11,000 ese a\u00f1o para comprar el lavavajillas, las bandejas y los cubiertos, y para pagar la mano de obra necesaria para lavar las bandejas durante un a\u00f1o. (Los fondos siguen estando reservados por el ILSR para el proyecto del lavavajillas). El Club tambi\u00e9n solicit\u00f3 el apoyo del Ayuntamiento y del alcalde de Takoma Park, que aprobaron una resoluci\u00f3n que prohib\u00eda el uso de fondos municipales para comprar poliestireno para vajillas. El Consejo del Condado de Montgomery emiti\u00f3 una proclamaci\u00f3n en la que reconoc\u00eda la labor del club y escribi\u00f3 a la Junta de Educaci\u00f3n del Condado de Montgomery y al entonces superintendente escolar, el Dr. Weast, solicit\u00e1ndoles que apoyaran el proyecto. Sin embargo, la Junta y el Dr. Weast denegaron la solicitud de la escuela de instalar el lavavajillas durante un a\u00f1o como proyecto piloto.<\/p>\n

Para el a\u00f1o escolar 2010-11, los estudiantes decidieron hacer una auditor\u00eda de los residuos del almuerzo y luego celebrar un d\u00eda de almuerzo sin basura. Tambi\u00e9n decidieron trasladar su campa\u00f1a contra el poliestireno expandido a la comunidad empresarial local y empezar a educar a la comunidad en general sobre los problemas del poliestireno y sus alternativas. Crearon un marcador informativo, un compromiso para que las empresas firmaran aceptando no utilizar poliestireno en los utensilios para servir alimentos y una pegatina para la ventana de las empresas que firmaran el compromiso. El d\u00eda sin basura fue un gran \u00e9xito. Los estudiantes ense\u00f1aron a sus compa\u00f1eros c\u00f3mo preparar un almuerzo sin basura y entregaron a los que com\u00edan en la cafeter\u00eda una bandeja y un tenedor reutilizables. El ILSR organiz\u00f3 el evento, consigui\u00f3 las bandejas y tenedores lavables donados y se encarg\u00f3 de la recogida de los restos de comida para su compostaje en una granja local. En comparaci\u00f3n con la auditor\u00eda de residuos, la tasa de reciclaje de la escuela pas\u00f3 de 14% a 72%, debido principalmente a los productos compostables y a la sustituci\u00f3n de las bandejas y tenedores de poliestireno por productos duraderos.<\/p>\n

Durante el a\u00f1o escolar 2011-12, el Club de J\u00f3venes Activistas lanz\u00f3 su campa\u00f1a \u00abNo Styrofoam Business Pledge\u00bb (Compromiso empresarial contra el poliestireno). Se reunieron con propietarios y gerentes de empresas y les pidieron que firmaran un compromiso. A cambio, las empresas reciben una calcoman\u00eda para exhibir en sus ventanas. Los estudiantes tambi\u00e9n han creado un marcador de libros en el que se detallan los problemas que plantea el poliestireno y los productos alternativos. El club est\u00e1 distribuyendo sus marcadores en bibliotecas locales, eventos locales, empresas locales y otros lugares.<\/p>\n

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