How to use waste paper? Recently, Zhejiang Gongshang University's "Paper Wish to Have You" project was "dug up" by students and praised with relish.
According to the students of the school, in the corridors of the school dormitories, they often encounter a group of volunteers in red vests, carrying recycling bags in their hands, knocking on the doors of each dormitory one by one, and asking softly: "Hello classmates, do you have any waste paper?" We can recycle it! ”
"We bind waste paper with blank on one side into a book and distribute it to students in need as scratch paper, so as to improve the utilization rate of paper." Zhou Yi, a student leader of Zhejiang Gongshang University's "Paper Wishes for You" project, said that at present, waste paper recycling points and scratch paper distribution points have covered all teaching buildings and libraries on campus.
Wang Zhiyuan is a first-year student at Zhejiang Gongshang University's Tailong School of Finance, and he needs a lot of scratch paper to assist in his daily study. He is very grateful for the great convenience that this project has brought to him. "When I have a lot of calculations and I don't have enough scratch paper with me, it can meet my emergency needs."
In addition to making draft paper books, the volunteers of "Paper Wish to Have You" also used their dexterous hands to turn waste into treasure, turning all kinds of waste paper into exquisite handicrafts, such as paper palace lamps, pulp paintings, paper flowers, ancient papermaking, and plant rubbing...... Play a lot of tricks.
"We cut the waste paper that can no longer be used, soak it, beat it into pulp, drain it, mix it, dye it, then paint it, and finally poke out the lines with toothpicks to make the shape. I felt a great sense of accomplishment when I saw the final pulp paintings, and we gave them to the volunteers of previous years as a souvenir. Wu Yu, a volunteer from the School of Finance of Zhejiang Gongshang University, said, "There are also paper palace lamps, which are also made of rice paper discarded by the school's calligraphy association and disposable chopsticks discarded by students after meals, which are particularly beautiful to hang in the dormitory!" ”
Combining waste paper recycling with manual classes, the Zhejiang Merchants University Volunteer Association not only practices conservation and spreads the concept of environmental protection, but also uses paper as a medium to inherit traditional Chinese culture and skills. "We have been innovating the form of activities, hoping to let more teachers and students participate in the 'Paper Wish with You' project, and turn environmental protection into a meaningful, but also interesting thing!" Zhou Yi's eyes sparkled when he said this.
It is reported that Zhejiang Gongshang University's waste paper recycling action with the theme of "paper wishes to have you" originated in 2014. At that time, students found that the school would produce a large amount of waste paper due to teaching and office needs, and these papers would be discarded without making full use of them, which was not only a great waste of resources, but also had a negative impact on the campus environment. In the past ten years, more than 160,000 pieces of waste paper have been reused in the "relay" of more than 2,300 volunteers, and more than 45,000 copies of draft paper books have been made for students to reuse, benefiting more than 30,000 people. Not long ago, volunteers also came to the Jiangbin Garden community near the school to teach the elderly how to turn waste newspapers into lifelike paper flowers, and at the same time popularize the knowledge and skills of recycling waste paper to community residents, so that environmental protection can be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and strive to be the builders of a beautiful China.