According to foreign media reports, over 15 years, the owner of a hotel in Olmeetpe Island, Nicaragua, collected more than 24 tons of plastic trash and used them to build a bilingual school in the area for 72 children from preschool to fourth grade Learning place
According to the Nicaraguan "Newspaper" website reported on November 27, Merida Manor Hotel boss Alvaro Molinas Briones said that year saw the hotel to create so much garbage, hired a Workers collected plastic bottles and filled them with plastic trash. Initially, the worker filled 15 and increased to 20 workers each day.
Molinas said, 'I paid workers according to the number of plastic bottles filled with plastic trash, a bottle of 15 Cordoba (1 Nicaraguan Cordoba about 0.2 yuan), he can earn 300 Cordoba a day, While still keeping our island from being polluted by plastic waste. "Molinas buys bottles for hotel profits, buying 4,000 to 5,500 plastic bottles filled with plastic garbage each year, then turning them into Ometepe Bilingual school classroom walls and floor.
'My plan is to add one grade each year until the entire primary school is completed. Education is free, certified by the Ministry of Education, and we work with government programs,' adds Molinas.
Reported that with the help of foreign tourists and the profits of Merida Manor Hotel, the school's six teachers' salaries have also been resolved.Molinus said that the earliest interest in the removal of plastic waste Island Initiative Visitors are Americans Brian Davis, who noticed that children at Merida can use his computer at Merida Manor Hotel to do their homework at an hourly rate using a 1.5 - liter bottle filled with plastic trash. Bryant decided to donate 12 computers for his children, encouraged to collect more trash bottles, and he had always supported our plastic bottle construction classroom initiative. '
The report also said Molinas also called on all tourism, plastic manufacturing enterprises to work hard to solve the problem of plastic pollution and build a beautiful home.