A few times ago, pedagogy students from Sriwijaya University  taught elementary school students to convert unused material like expired magazines and newspapers to  handicraft.  The location was in SD Negeri 157 (Public Elementary School Number 157) Palembang.

The participants are around 160 people. They were from 4^th, 5^th and 6^th grade. They worked in teams accompanied with some mentors.

The activity was held in a week where The University students collaborated with The teacher used students free time to did the works. Then the results displayed in Ruang 3R (3R Room). 3R is abbreviation of ?reduce, reuse, and recycle?.

This action was aimed to educate the students to be creative, active and care about the environment. The long term goal is the future youth will be more concern to reduce, reuse the unused materials. If the day come, rubbish isn?t a huge matter anymore.