Bringing safe water, refill stations (where possible), reusable bottles and circular economy education to schools in Chile.
Rethink.Refill. is our longest running educational program that empowers youth, prevents plastic pollution, and teaches about clean water and it´s benefits for humans as well as nature to rural and coastal schools.
The program provides water refill stations and reusable bottles to teach students about plastic waste. They are involved in a solution that eliminates single-use plastic bottles from the waste stream.
They can track their school's success over the duration of the project and use it as a tool to encourage other members of their community to join in preventing plastic pollution.
Why rethink refill?
Rethink.Refill. levels the playing field. Plastic pollution affects everyone around the world, regardless of socioeconomic status but some communities have less means to do something about this problem than others.
Education is part of Plastic Oceans' mission to inform, inspire and incite action to solve plastic pollution and we want everyone to have access to our programs. But in a country so centralized as Chile it´s quite challenging to visit schools in regions further away from the capital Santiago.
So our program focuses on underserved, rural or coastal schools and public education to ensure that young people from disadvantaged communities receive the same education and have the same learning opportunities to address and solve the plastic waste problem facing the planet.