Planetary Health and Waste Management

Authors: Avtandil Samadalashvili, Medea Kusiani

The project combined a variety of activities over three months: seven informational and educational training courses and one large-scale cleaning campaign. Students collaborated with three non-governmental organizations and two social organizations, namely: “Tene”, “Sadagi”, CENN, Plastic Watcher and “My City Kills”.
At the final conference, 14 project participants gave presentations on environmental topics of interest to them. Among the speakers were both TMA students and students from different universities.
As a result of the project, the students provided training for 30 students. In cooperation with the organization “Tene”, special boxes were placed in the TMA space for collecting plastic bottles, the transportation and recycling of which is also provided by the same organization.