Indian school charges plastic waste as school fee

Parmita said, “We started encouraging our students to their plastic waste as school fee.”

ASSAM (Dunya News) – Indian students submit polythene bags full of plastic waste as fee in Akshar School in Guwahati. School founder Parmita Sarma said, “We wanted to start a free school for children, but stumbled upon this idea after we realised a larger social and ecological problem brewing in this area.”

I still remember how our classrooms were filled with toxic fumes every time somebody in the nearby areas burnt plastics. Here it was a norm to burn waste plastic to keep warm, she added. Parmita said, “We wanted to change that and so we started encouraging our students to bring their plastic waste as school fee.”