Trash for Class is a program which invites Balinese students to get English course and sustainability classes by bringing a minimum 5 kg of recyclable trash. By exchanging trash with class, the students have the opportunity to understand the value of trash, before they dumping and burning it. We aim to promote a proper waste management system and implementing hands-on curriculum on waste management at schools in Indonesia. Join our mission in #educatingchangemakers

Trash for Class is a program which provides English classes to Balinese children in Sibangkaja, Bali aged 7 - 17. Instead of paying the course with cash, the participants pay it with a minimum of 5 kilograms of recyclable trash per semester. By exchanging trash with class, the students have the opportunity to learn the value of trash, instead of dumping and burning it they can bring to our facility and get free English classes. Trash that has been collected from the students is delivered to our own recycling center with 21 categories of trash. Every semester we are able to collect more than 1500 kg of recyclable trash from the program. Besides the English lesson, we also implement experiential and experimental curriculum on waste education at the students' own school. We develop 14 hands-on, in-class and field trip lesson plan to be shared to the students. Through hands-on activities, it allows the students to gain a better understanding of the waste problem, a topic which rarely discussed in the school curriculum. To drive the change of the old burning and dumping waste behavior, we can not just come once, we need a long term education program. With passion and dedication of teaching, the students will essentially remember the importance of how should they treat their own waste properly. Our target is school community because 80% of the school waste is recyclable, so they can make a huge impact to minimize waste ended up in the landfill if they can recycle their own waste within the school. In #educatingchangemakers we need to sustain this project. Therefore, we currently invest our organization with shredding and injection plastic machines to prototype upcycled/recycled products and in the future, we are able to sell these products globally.