Students turn superstitions into a recycling tool

Răzvan Țupa

An innovative project combining folk traditions with modern environmental messaging has won the "Student Innovation Challenge / What's Next?” competition, organized at the University of Bucharest. Tellingly titled "You break the curse when you recycle,” the initiative proposed by five students from the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Sciences relies on the influence of superstitions in Romanian behavior to encourage the recycling of old electrical appliances. "Because superstitions are