China - Siegwerk China teaches young students about the benefits of a Circular Economy

Siegwerk China had the honor to cooperate with Shanghai Wanyuan City Union Bilingual School to conduct a Circular Economy (CE) class for the students there earlier this year. Siegwerk Shanghai attend the event and shared with the fifth-grade students information on  "Environmentally friendly Inks, Packaging & Packaging Recycling in the form of a lecture, Siegwerk shared the knowledge of ink, packaging and packaging recycling, and proposed the initiative called "Protect the environment. It starts with me."

At the beginning of the CE class, Willie Wu, Managing Director, Siegwerk China, delivered opening remarks. He greeted the teachers and the students, introduced the theme of the CE class from his own perspective and experience, and then shared that this class could bring students some inspiration on packaging recycling and the circular economy.

Then Qiang Du, Assistant GAN Manager, interacted with the kids with a magic chemistry show which interested all the kids. Many kids volunteered to join Du on the stage in order to watch the experiment closely, and quite a few kids even asked many questions regarding the experiment.

After the experiment, Sharon Pan, core member of the Siegwerk Sustainability Committee in China, presented the different packaging technologies with different packaging effects. Irene Xu Irene from Human Resources Department and Krystia Song from the Marketing Department showed the students all many types of exquisite packaging samples and let the students see and touch the printed samples. All the kids were impressed and they all agree that it is really a pity to dispose beautiful packaging material without recycling.

Pan also shared the impact and the burden brought to our earth from the traditional packaging industry. However Siegwerk is a company with Corporate Social Responsibility and we play an important part in the Circular Economy and produce environmentally-friendly packaging inks. Pan also shared with the students a lot of examples of recycled packaging material recycled  and asked each student to save energy and reduce emissions in their daily lives, to be supportive of environmental protection and packaging recycling from now on.

Siegwerk gave each student a ballpoint pen with the Siegwerk CE logo as a souvenir. The school presented certificates of honor to the counselors to commemorate this meaningful class.

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