Last week some children in Room 9 were part of a beach clean up for Sustainable Coastlines. We went to Kaiti Beach, picked up lots of rubbish and bought it back to school. We then had to sort the rubbish into categories and weigh it. It was amazing how much plastic we found.
We now need to think about how we can stop plastics ending up on our beaches and hurting the sea life.
Well done Room 9 students - you helped make Kaiti beach a better place for sea life and our community to enjoy. It must've been interesting sorting out the rubbish in to different categories. Why do you think the most common type of rubbish was plastic?
ReplyDeleteManaia - because people throw their plastic away and it gets blown around from the wind.
DeleteAmeya - people drop plastic in the sand.
Indie - Most things are plastic now.
Jacqueline - people litter every where.
Tiago - companies are producing more things that are made out of plastic.
Lily - turtles sometimes eat plastic because it looks like jellyfish.
Thank you for your interesting replies. I hope that people will use more biodegradable and reuseable things so that there is less plastic on our beaches in the future.
DeleteWhat a great thing you have done Room 9! You all looked like you enjoyed yourself. There was a lot of rubbish collected by the looks of it. Room 5 would love to know how much the rubbish weighed, that you collected?
ReplyDeleteFrom Room 5 at PBS
We found 160 pieces of rubbish and it weighed 1974grams. We feel that this is far too much rubbish to be found on a a beach.
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This is the website you can go to to to find out more.