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Ecoembes launches a virtual planet that teaches children to recycle their packaging

14/04/2010

April 14, 2010

Continuing with his concern for education in the field of recycling, Ecoembes, society non-profit that manages selective collection, recovery and recycling of light packaging (plastic containers, cans and briks) and containers of paper and paperboardhas created a virtual planet called Mini-Mundi (www.mini-mundi.com), similar to a tamagotchi, to help teachers to teach in a way fun the recycling of waste. The main objective of this platform web, aimed at schools, is to provide a useful tool for learning about the benefits of the separation of waste, and its effects on the environment.

Mini-Mundi (www.mini-mundi.com) is a virtual ecosystem that evolves depending on if take care you well or poorly, changing according to the day, night and the seasons of the year. Each child who participates, you are provided a mini-personal mundi, his own planet, where, among other characters, a cow brik, a whale bottle, a Tin fish, a bear bag or a vessel jellyfish.

How to play?

Each week, the child will have to complete funny tasks of "cleansing" of the planet to be able to access the game corresponding to that stage (in total there are 16 games). As you improve their knowledge about the recycling of packaging, it will reap more ecopoints and the planet will grow, rich in flora, fauna and natural resources.

Although you can participate individually, one of the main objectives of this platform is to serve as a tool to teachers when teaching the benefits and mechanics of the separation of waste. In schools, therefore, a group participation will be encouraged.

Separation, renewable energy, recycling; much of the environmental concerns are relating to a game that seeks that children come in contact with this theme of the most enjoyable way possible and in a universe of the web, which are becoming increasingly familiar.

Mini-mundi is part of multiple activities Ecoembes for the public school. Among them, the blog of Professor - www.amarilloverdeyazul.com, Alex and Robix multimedia materials, the section learn to recycle of www.ecoembes.com and educational programs conducted in collaboration with SOS Children's villages among others.