The Little Green Heroes project brought environmental education directly to primary school children, introducing them to the basics of environmental conservation, plastic waste reduction, and sustainable waste management through a program designed to be both informative and engaging for young learners. Bringing Environmental Learning to the Classroom The project was structured around a series of

ZeroPlastic CINEC Campus conducted Eco Talks – Series 0.2, an awareness session and membership drive designed for university volunteers and participants from the Faculty of Marine Engineering at CINEC Campus. The session addressed plastic pollution, its effects on marine ecosystems, and the importance of environmental sustainability. An Awareness Session for Future Marine Engineers The programme

The Event and Fellowship Unit of the ZeroPlastic Movement, University of Kelaniya, organized the I ACT Workshop, formally known as the Italy-IRENA Action for Climate Toolkit Workshop, bringing together 121 university volunteers to deepen their understanding of climate change, renewable energy, and environmental sustainability. The workshop was organized in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy.

On Sunday, 19 July 2026, more than 180 volunteers walked through the streets of Colombo and cleaned a stretch of Wellawatte Beach, collecting over 500 kg of waste and conducting a brand audit to trace the sources of plastic pollution along Sri Lanka’s coastline. The initiative, titled WAVES ’26, was jointly organized by the ZeroPlastic

On a quiet morning in the rural outskirts of Badulla district, a group of young students at B/Morahela Maha Vidyalaya gathered in their school hall, not for their usual lessons, but for something they had been buzzing about all week. A team of university volunteers had arrived with bags of supplies, colorful posters, and a

Inside a sunlit classroom at St. Thomas’ College in Matale, a group of students passed around a bamboo toothbrush, turning it over in their hands with genuine curiosity. For many of them, it was the first time they had held a tangible alternative to the plastic objects they used every day without a second thought.

The morning sun had barely risen over the Dehiwala coastline when the first volunteers began arriving, plastic bags and gloves in hand, their feet sinking into sand littered with bottle caps, polythene fragments and tangled fishing line. Among them were university students who had never participated in a beach cleanup before, standing shoulder to shoulder

On a Sunday afternoon in early May, a group of university students gathered in room Z0725 at the University of Moratuwa, not to discuss polymers or circuit boards, but to confront a question many of them had been quietly carrying: how do I present myself to the world beyond campus? The session, titled ElevateU, unfolded

Somewhere behind a laptop screen on a quiet July morning, a first-year science student at the University of Ruhuna typed a question into the chat box: how can I get involved? It was a small moment, easy to miss in the flow of an online session, but it captured exactly what the organizers had hoped

Inside lecture hall Z0725 at the University of Moratuwa, a group of students sat forward in their chairs as Dr. Ruchira Wijesena posed a simple but disarming question: what does your professional presence say about you before you ever speak a word? For many in the room, it was the first time anyone had framed