Archive · 2 Oct 2025
Venezuelan Foundation Recycles Plastic Waste Into School Desks
In Venezuela, a foundation called El Zulia Recicla is helping the environment and students.
They collect plastic waste and broken school furniture.
Instead of buying new desks, they fix old ones.
They use the plastic waste to make new parts for the desks.
So far, they've fixed 160 desks and given them to schools.
This project is also helping to clean up plastic and teach students about the environment.
The French embassy is helping to fund this project and they aim to deliver 200 desks to 10 schools.
A Venezuelan foundation is turning plastic waste into school desks.
El Zulia Recicla is based in Maracaibo, Venezuela.
The foundation repairs old desks and replaces parts with recycled plastic.
160 desks have been refurbished so far using plastic waste collected by students.
The initiative aims to deliver 200 desks to 10 schools.
- Who
- El Zulia Recicla, a local foundation, and students
- What
- Turning plastic waste into school desks
- When
- Ongoing initiative
- Where
- Zulia state, Venezuela
- Why
- To reduce plastic pollution and provide desks to students.
- Foundation Name
- El Zulia Recicla
- Location
- Maracaibo, Venezuela
- Desks Refurbished
- 160 so far
- Funding
- Partly by French embassy
- Goal
- Deliver 200 desks to 10 schools