PKU Students Won Champion in Bayer W&B Environmental Protection Campaign of Northern China Division

Peking University, Beijing, Nov. 20, 2009: On the afternoon of November 13, the final of Bayer Write & Black Environment Protection Campaign of Northern China Division was held. The project Forest Song of PKU by Peking University (PKU) was highly valued by judges for its creativity, operability, sustainability, and universality. It got the highest point in two rounds and won the champion eventually. The team members of the Forest Song of PKU are students from different departments of PKU College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and this project is an integral part of PKU s sustainable campus construction, which encourages students to carry out innovations in environmental protection.

The Forest Song of PKU (www.eebcus.org) is a project on systematic and recyclable waste recycling & afforestation at colleges. With the dorm as one unit, they have encouraged the students to recycle daily wastes through establishing personal green accounts, and to set up green fund with the money from recycling and then use the money on afforestation at campus. The final goal is to form ecological communities in PKU. This project has won enthusiastic welcome from PKU students. In previous experimental practices, they collected 500-kilo garbage in a day.

Translated by: Su Juan
Edited by: Cai Ying
Source: PKU News (Chinese)