He’s ‘”Ecological” even when he drinks a cup of coffee, he drinks two at a time. “So you wash a single cup, it consumes less water.”
We’re talking about Eng. Giorgios Kazantzopoulos, director of the Haba Waba Festival workshop “Let’s save our planet”, which is having a remarkable success. “Out of 120 teams participating in the Festival, 70 have already taken part in the workshop,” says Kazantzopoulos.
How is the workshop? It ‘s very simple: each team take part in the lesson. Movies and debate on three main themes: energy saving, waste recycling, water saving. “The interest shown by the children is significantly higher than expected,” notes Kazantzopoulos, which reveals a clever trick to enthuse young people: “During the lesson we make them play bottle-basket, a revised version of basketball with a crushed plastic bottle instead of the ball”
Then there is, for all participants a diploma of “Ambassador for the Environment” which invests the boys a very important role for disseminating among friends and classmates, when they return at home, the teachings received during the workshops, which Kazantzopoulos organized in collaboration with the Institute Team for the World and the Global Challenge for the scientific part.
After the lesson, begins the “hunt the bottle.” Resounding success. When the teams are not playing on the pool, the teams are around the village to collect plastic bottles. Yes, because the team that collects the most will be awarded by the Association of Waterpolo Development Saturday, June 28th during the closing ceremony of the event.
At the “bottle hunting” takes as supporters (it was inevitable), even the families of the small players.
“Rather – tells Georgios – it happened a few small encore: a team could not hand over the bag with the bottles collected because his coach after leaving the hotel, has been” hijacked” the precious contents: the cleaning lady has completely emptied it.
But it is not the only “hiccup ecological.” Ilaria Colautti, coach of Trieste Water Polo, says: “It ‘so ruthless the hunt for the bottle that participants, secretly, are rubbing filled bottles from the tables of the jury during the games, they empties and put them in their bag.”
Waiting to know the name of the winning team, Kazantzopoulos tells us that “thanks to the collaboration of the Waterpolo Development this is the first workshop on the theme of ecology that we brought forward in such a great event of water sports. I’m very satisfied. “
