A team of students from Tong'an Elementary School in Fenyuan Township, Changhua County, used coffee grounds and mineral sand to make "environmentally friendly coffee grounds cat litter", and was awarded the first place in the National Team of the Ministry of Education's Environmental Education Practice Competition.

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[Reporter Lin Xiaoyun/Taipei Report] The team of Tong'an Elementary School students in Fenyuan Township, Changhua County, used coffee grounds and ore to make "environmentally friendly coffee grounds cat litter". .

Lian Shanli, Chief of the Department of Information Science and Technology of the Ministry of Education, explained that on the eve of 422 Earth Day, in order to implement my country's 2050 net zero emission target, the Ministry of Education continued to promote the "New Generation Environmental Education Development" policy, mastering net zero emission, energy transformation, and circular economy The key connotation is that through the implementation of environmental education practice, students will transform and apply the knowledge they have learned in the classroom to life exploration, so as to effectively discover and solve problems, and actively cultivate them into "new generation citizens of net zero transformation" with resilience and action.

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Won the first place in the national team of the environmental education practice competition, the Tong'an Elementary School Team of Fenyuan Township, Changhua County, used coffee grounds and ore to make "environmentally friendly coffee grounds cat litter", and reused daily drinking waste. The community cooperates with 7 supermarkets and 1 coffee shop to obtain coffee grounds, and promotes the experience of making cat litter with coffee grounds to the teachers and students of the school and 20 cat owners. Cat owners love it and are willing to continue to use it. It is practical and creative .

The first place in the junior high school group is the Xinguang Junior High School team of Taichung City, which promotes environmental protection work in every corner of the campus, such as using nutritious lunches to promote slow food activities to reduce food waste, coordinating with the campus art season to organize environmental protection gatherings, and using the broadcasting system to advocate and encourage classes to reduce plastics etc., starting from campus life, good popularity.

In addition, the first place in the National Team of the Campus Tree Essay Competition was Daxing Elementary School, Fuxing Township, Changhua County. Combined with the school's environmental education theme course, it told the history of the school's silver-leaf tree, and discovered the cause of the brown root by observing the characteristics of the tree, so that students could pay attention to it campus trees.

The first place in the junior high school group was Xinxin Junior High School in Taitung County. There was a nearly fifty-year-old banyan tree on the campus. The outdoor course allows students to understand the friendly coexistence of local Bunun people and trees, and to show love for trees.

The first place in the high school group is National Changhua High School. There is an 80-year-old banyan tree standing at the school gate, which shelters countless students from entering and leaving the school. Students cultivate the love tree on campus by designing the love tree LOGO, visiting trees, and video guides. The spirit of tree protection; the first place in the teacher group was Lan Lizhen, a teacher from Kanding Elementary School, Haiduan Township, Taitung County. Taking the camphor tree as the topic, the school used tree climbing activities to teach children the concept of tree protection, supplemented by practice and experience Courses to make students pay more attention to campus trees and be friendly to the environment.