Photos

Beyond expiry date

submitted by Gozo College Middle School : EkoSkola Committee  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): EkoSkola blog, Ekoskola noticeboard, other, school magazine, school media, website
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Commended

During a clean-up event, students found a chocolate bar wrapper that was 5 years old, which meant it had been thrown some 260 weeks ago. Disturbingly, the wrapper looked no more than a few days old. Packaging wrappers could potentially last hundreds, thousands or even millions of years without decomposing.



Read More

Framing the Problem

submitted by Gozo College Secondary School : Kirsty Mercieca  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): school media, website
filed under Campaigning photo Photos
awarded: Finalist

The title is self-explanatory as it all alludes to plastic proliferation in the environment/marine life and the global outcry demanding immediate action necessary to contain such a threat to our ecosystem.



Read More

If You sow Plastic you don’t get Fruits

submitted by Gozo College Secondary School : Coral King  for 15-18
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): school media, website
filed under Campaigning photo Photos
awarded: Finalist

At first glance, the viewer is deceived by the beauty of the colourful fruits that might indicate an apparent fertile and prosperous land. In actual fact, the fruits are toys made of plastic and the image gives a false impression that the world is fine withstanding the amount of pollution and plastic jeopardising its ecosystem.



Read More

Plastic will never bear Fruits.

submitted by Gozo College Secondary School : Leeona Gauci  for 15-18
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): school media, website
filed under Campaigning photo Photos
awarded: Finalist

Emblematic pieces of colourful plastic are seen in the foreground. The image is reminiscent of happy scenes from kids’ programmes on TV like Teletubbies. It does in fact disguise an imminent danger; the threat posed by excessive plastic waste in the environment. The angle shot by Leeona renders the image in a dramatic way.



Read More

Entangled

submitted by Gozo College Secondary School : Nervana Buitenhuis  for 15-18
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): school media, website
filed under Campaigning photo Photos
awarded: Commended

The image shows a soft toy representing a turtle entangled in some plastic threads next to the seashore. The image is symbolic and represents the threat to marine life posed by plastic waste in the environment.



Read More

Me, Nature and Plastic

submitted by Gozo College Secondary School : Jacot Nala  for 15-18
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): school media, website
filed under Campaigning photo Photos
awarded: Commended

A girl can be seen lying on the grass in the foreground of an idyllic natural setting. Her gaze is fixed upon some plastic trash trapped on a bush, which definitely looks out of place in the surrounding environment. The girl looks definitely pensive about the issue of trash being discarded in the environment. The angle from which it is taken renders the image even more dramatic.



Read More

Species at Risk

submitted by Gozo College Secondary School : Clayton Galea  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): school media, website
filed under Campaigning photo Photos
awarded: Commended

The image shows a plastic toy representing a turtle hung on a thread in an idyllic environment. Clayton is raising an awareness about plastic pollution which is proliferating in the valleys, seas and oceans and putting at risk the marine life



Read More

The Scream

submitted by Gozo College Secondary School : Nigel Tabone  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): school media, website
filed under Campaigning photo Photos
awarded: 1st place Litter less Campaign, Finalist, International Honorable Mention

Pieces of plastic are visibly entangled on a shrub in an open, green environment. The colours of the plastic strings and the ghostly and sinister form of the white plastic bag attached to the twigs render the image dramatic, almost apocalyptical.



Read More

Nurdle Hurdle

submitted by St. Thomas More College Secondary School Zejtun : Katrina Vella  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): assembly, noticeboard, other, school magazine, school media, website
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Commended

Nurdles, the name of the, not so sweet, as it might sound, raw material of the plastic industry. The building blocks for plastic bottles, plastic bags and drinking straws – in fact almost anything made up from plastic. However, nurdles are also covering our beaches. It is estimated that 73% of beach litter is plastic. Ingestion of plastic kills more than 1,000,000 marine creatures each year, while humans end up eating thousands of microplastics through the consumption of seafood. Studies by the European Union and the University of Malta show that only ⅓ of the plastic used in Malta is being recycled. Most of the remaining ⅔ end up in the sea. So, let’s get over the hurdle and do away with the nurdle!



Read More

Why??

submitted by SNC Dingli Primary School : Yan Fenech  for 7-10
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): Notice board and Local Council, other, school media, website
filed under Campaigning photo Photos
awarded: Commended

Why are people so reckless and irresponsible? Why do people throw litter in the environment they are living in? Why do people harm the environment and the creatures living there?



Read More