Educational initiatives

Faced with the excessive production of plastic packaging and paper, urban cleanliness is becoming a major issue. A dozen street cleaners are mobilised to empty more than three hundred litter bins and pick up rubbish from around a hundred kilometres of pavements and roads. Collecting an average of five tonnes of rubbish a week, they rise to the constant challenge of keeping the city clean.

In order to pass on good practice from an early age, the local authority has decided to give priority to pupils in the town's elementary schools, and also to encourage parents and children to take part. Every year, over 400 pupils take part in Sustainable Development Week (an event open to everyone). In addition to this event, the schools are involved in a cleanliness project. At the Joliot Curie school, this has resulted in the introduction of a weekly rubbish collection in the school grounds by the CE2 class.

"To see if our work was effective, we decided to weigh the waste every week and display its weight in the playground. We use a graph to show our classmates how our efforts are progressing, which gets them involved and makes them feel more responsible. We're not yet at zero waste, which is our goal, but the playground is much cleaner, which is motivating!
Pupils taking part
children under a tent preparing for an activity as part of Sustainable Development Week
Montataire pupils at the Prieuré urban park for activities as part of Sustainable Development Week 2024.
Different groups of children, on the left a group for the simpler sorting by the SMDO, in the centre a group moving around and on the right a group under a barnum on raising awareness of life in the Thérain.
Montataire pupils at the Prieuré urban park for activities as part of Sustainable Development Week 2024.
An area dedicated to cycling, with routes and obstacles to teach children about responsible driving.
Montataire pupils at the Prieuré urban park for activities as part of Sustainable Development Week 2024.
Group of children looking at a panel on the fish of the Thérain river
Montataire pupils at the Prieuré urban park for activities as part of Sustainable Development Week 2024.
children under a tent preparing for an activity as part of Sustainable Development Week
Montataire pupils at the Prieuré urban park for activities as part of Sustainable Development Week 2024.
Different groups of children, on the left a group for the simpler sorting by the SMDO, in the centre a group moving around and on the right a group under a barnum on raising awareness of life in the Thérain.
Montataire pupils at the Prieuré urban park for activities as part of Sustainable Development Week 2024.
An area dedicated to cycling, with routes and obstacles to teach children about responsible driving.
Montataire pupils at the Prieuré urban park for activities as part of Sustainable Development Week 2024.
Group of children looking at a panel on the fish of the Thérain river
Montataire pupils at the Prieuré urban park for activities as part of Sustainable Development Week 2024.
Group of children listening to a facilitator about simpler sorting by the SMDO
Montataire pupils at the Prieuré urban park for activities as part of Sustainable Development Week 2024.
Group of children listening to a facilitator about simpler sorting by the SMDO
Montataire pupils at the Prieuré urban park for activities as part of Sustainable Development Week 2024.