Past Entries

Wrong Target

submitted by St.Albert the Great College : Miguel Camilleri  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): other, school noticeboard, school media
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Commended

This image shows a cigarette packet being thrown on the floor, instead of a near by bin.



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Trash behind bars

submitted by St.Albert the Great College : Jean Carm Micallef  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): other, school noticeboard, school media
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Commended

This image shows litter being thrown away in an abandoned place.



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Help Reduce Plastic Waste!

submitted by Gzira St.Monica School : Martina Zammit  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): Exhibition + Special Assembly, other, school media
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Commended

St. Monica School Gzira has joined the Litter Less Campaign, and to help reduce plastic bottles at school, YRE members sold reusable plastic bottles at a very cheap price, which can be filled using the water dispenser at the school. It all started when people noticed that lots of children were bringing new plastic bottles every day, and sometimes not even recycling them properly. Another initiative that the school has taken is to encourage students to bring their lunches in reusable boxes, instead of plastic bags. If every student in the school follows this advice, the school would have saved up to 100,000 plastic bags in a whole scholastic year. This goes to show that small actions can make a huge difference. To help reduce plastic waste, each one of us needs to take action, and find ways how the use of plastic can be reduced in our everyday life.



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Make Haste… Reduce Waste

submitted by St. Augustine College Secondary Sector : EkoSkola Committee 2018 - 2019  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): newspaper, school magazine, school media
filed under Articles
awarded: Finalist

This article outlines the work being done by the EkoSkola Committee as part of the YRE / Litterless campaign, focusing on proper sorting of litter and waste reduction in the school.



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Recycling Computers

submitted by Cospicua Senior Secondary School St. Margaret College Verdala : Aaliyah Bonello, Lara Agius  for 15-18
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): school media
filed under Articles
awarded: Commended

Throughout the scholastic year, computers change once in a while. Questioning was done on what is happening to old computers. In some schools, computers are recycled and used in other subjects but what happens to the computers around Malta?



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Clean up in Tarxien and Santa Lucija

submitted by St.Thomas More College Secondary School Santa Lucija : Justyn James Galea, Kleaven Cassar, Leah Cocks, Leandros Catania  for 15-18
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): other, School Facebook Page, school magazine, school media
filed under Articles
awarded: Commended

Four fifth formers decided to clean up the area near their old school, the Tarxien Middle school on a public holiday. They were always concerned by the rubbish that was accumulating in the area, as residents treat it like a dumping zone. The students had taken part in a clean up around Santa Lucija in November, with the Eko Skola group and this spurred them to take action and not just complain!



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Clothes it again & again

submitted by St Francis Primary Cospicua : EkoSkola Committee  for 7-10
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): ewwr fb page, other, school media, website, youtube & school board
filed under Campaigning video Video Clips
awarded: Commended

School committee together with SMT are aware of throwing away used unwanted good clothes & shoes. Sometimes this is done because of the modern society, the need arises to change clothes and style or because we just can’t wear them anymore. Students said that this is generating unnecessary waste as this is being disposed of in their house bins, and they know that clothing can be a large contributor to the destruction of the environment. Therefore, we decided to bring to school, children’s and adults’ used clothes and shoes, which could be easily recycled and reused, given to other children who are less fortunate and to donation centers to have a second life. The aim behind this activity is to learn from a young age how to reduce waste on our throw away culture by recycling and reusing.  



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Single use plastic bags and food containers: Let’s stop feeding the landfills

submitted by Immaculate Conception School St. Jeanne Antide College Tarxien : Dea Lia (Committee President)  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): other, radio, school magazine, school media, Shown to all school community during the school Concert and Award giving Ceremonies on 9th and 10th May, tv
filed under Campaigning video Video Clips
awarded: Best Entry

We definitely need to eat. Do our landfills need to eat too? This video, produced by the Eko skola committee of Immaculate Conception School, Tarxien as part of the Litter Less Campaign, aims to create awareness on the amount of plastic bags and food containers that we use when we go shopping and to suggest actions that we can all do to reduce this type of plastic. With a little more thought and planning we can achieve a lot.    



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With natural beauty comes unnatural destruction

submitted by Gzira St.Monica School : Michaela Tickle  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): Exhibition + Special Assembly, newspaper, other, school media
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Commended

This picture shows a piece of land which is full of beautiful life, full of natural beauty whereas plastic is unnatural, made by humans and yet, according to the CRI, Container Recycling Institute, 22 billion plastic bottles are thrown away every year. The bottle on the right has soil inside and so this bottle has trapped a chance at an amazing flower, tree or plant. That is what plastic does, it stops all life from growing. Plastic bottles are reusable too, but some people just decide to throw them on the floor. People are the ones to blame, not plastic as plastic is recyclable.



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Why litter?

submitted by St. Augustine College : Isaac Claude Camilleri  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): newspaper, school magazine, school media
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Commended

Why do you throw away your garbage in the streets? Litter from land can easily end up in the sea if blow away by the wind or carried along by the rain.



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