"Istanbul Summer Campers Create a New Green Age
by Jennifer Hattam, Istanbul, Turkey on 08.16.09
Culture & Celebrity (kids)
It's hard to imagine what the adults waiting at the bus stop must have thought of the group of kids in matching baggy, lime-green T-shirts rattling and clanking plastic trays, tied-together aluminum cans, and wooden push brooms in a shy Stomp-style performance before sweeping up the garbage and "recycling" it in a big plastic can. But the captive audience dutifully listened as the mostly pre-teen students came over to hand out flyers about recycling and canvas shopping bags -- "They want us to use them instead of plastic," one older woman repeated to a fellow bystander -- then trotted onto their bus, carrying, to a one, their new "GreenAGE"-emblazoned sacks over their shoulders."
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