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Sifting through the sand

submitted by Sacred Heart Senior school : Rebecca Saliba & Deborah Saliba  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): other, Social Media
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Commended



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Reversing your parking space

submitted by Sacred Heart Senior school : Amy Attard & Aimee Borg  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): other, Social Media
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Finalist



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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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Fishing in the sand

submitted by Sacred Heart Senior school : Keira Sciberras  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): other, Social Media
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Commended



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A new beginning

submitted by Our Lady Immaculate School : Jeanette Micallef  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): website
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Commended

What if we start afresh and we start to manage our plastic waste responsibly?



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Agricultural Land Taken to Feed Cars Instead of People – New Fuel Station Seen Through its Security Fence Just Prior to its Inauguration.

submitted by G. F. Abela Junior College : Elise, Muscat  for 15-18
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): school media, website
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Finalist

This 3,000m2 service station is almost complete and ready for opening. It was constructed on an area designated as agriculturally important in Malta’s North West Local Plan and Outside of a Development Zone. As per the current Service Stations Policy, this Service Station should not have been permitted as it is less than 500 metres from an existing service station. With internal combustion engine vehicles being eliminated in less than 20 years, is the priority correct to build mega-fuel stations on good agricultural land? What happens when the need for fuel stations dwindles in the coming years…will the land be converted back to agricultural use?



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Pavement Fuel pumps in central Mosta. Car mirror reflection represents the backwards viewpoint of fuel stations as seen through the mirror of an all-electric car

submitted by G. F. Abela Junior College : Elise, Muscat  for 15-18
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): school media, website
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Finalist

The main road in Mosta has two fuel stations nestled amongst shops and terraced houses. The Government introduced a policy which encouraged existing stations such as these to relocate. From a safety perspective, this has benefits. However, the policy also permits them to be allocated prime agricultural land for the development of their new station, which goes against the normal planning policy. There are already fuel stations both to the west and south of Mosta, so making these stations redundant. However, the current station licensing policy means that these stations cannot be closed without enabling them to open up elsewhere.



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Developing a new service station on arable land with the rusting excavation equipment and security fence contrasting with the green land of the encroached field

submitted by G. F. Abela Junior College : Elise, Muscat  for 15-18
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): newspaper, school media, website
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Commended

The Mgarr Fuel Station is currently located in a vulnerable area and next to a children’s playground in the centre of the village. Their application to develop 2,406m2 of agricultural land was approved in 2011. Clearing of the land commenced but stopped soon afterwards, leaving a fenced area of part excavated land and rusting excavation equipment. This perfectly demonstrates the controversy of balancing the benefits of moving a fuel station away from a village core but at the cost of the loss of a significant amount of fertile land and placing an eyesore in a rural area.



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We’re spoilt for choice regarding picnic spots!

submitted by St.Thomas More College Secondary School Santa Lucija : Dyan Camilleri  for 15-18
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): other, School Facebook Page, school magazine, school media
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Participation

Our next picnic spot…. WE should be part of the solution not part of the pollution!



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Mobiles : Our new best friends

submitted by St.Thomas More College Secondary School Santa Lucija : Dyan Camilleri  for 15-18
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): other, School Facebook Page, school magazine, school media
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Participation

Outside to play with friends or to play on our own on the phone ?



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