1st place Litter less Campaign

Greasy Trash

submitted by ALP Paola : Christie Farrugia, Joshua Mercieca, Lydon Delia Zahra, Ryan Zammit  for 15-18
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): other, School Assembly, School Open Day in April, school media, website
filed under Reporting video Video Clips
awarded: 1st place Litter less Campaign

How should burnt oil be thrown away? Can we recycle it? These are the questions that our students asked and researched after noticing the amount of oil that is thrown away. The research involved internet research, vox pops, an online survey, interviews to WasteServ and an interview to the Mayor of the locality. Towards the end of the video the students created a short tutorial on how oil should be disposed of correctly.        



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Plastic Sun

submitted by G.F.Abela Junior College Malta Msida : Gabrielle Zarb  for 15-18
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): Instagram, other, school notice board and school online newsletter (still to upload), school media
filed under Campaigning photo Photos
awarded: 1st place Litter less Campaign

No longer shall we be looking up and getting a glance of our sun …but mountains of plastic. In this photo, the message I’m trying to convey is, the fact that if we keep on living by our selfish ways, sooner or later we won’t be able to look around us and appreciate our beautiful and natural surroundings. Instead we will be living in our own plastic waste. This degrading plastic fragment was found on a local beach one of the millions which litters our beaches … homes to marine organisms.



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One man’s waste… another man’s treasure

submitted by St. Thomas More Secondary School Zejtun : Marija Camilleri  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): other, School monitor in the reception area, school magazine, website
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: 1st place Litter less Campaign

Modern societies have adopted a throw-away culture. In Europe, in 2015, each person has generated an average of 477kg of municipal waste. In Malta alone, each person generates more than 600kg of waste yearly. Environmental awareness has helped for disposing of our waste wisely by reusing and recycling paper, metal, plastic and glass. However, we are still wasting resources as we are throwing away organic matter generated in our households through food scraps, vegetable waste, tea bags, dead leaves and twigs. Nature shows us clearly that one man’s waste can be another’s treasure. Instead of filling our landfills with organic waste, we can give nature the opportunity to do its job and break it down into compost. Compost can then be used to enrich soil with the nutrients it needs.



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Waste bin story

submitted by University of Malta : Denise Brignani, Federica Scinetti  for 19-25
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): website
filed under Campaigning video Video Clips
awarded: 1st place international, 1st place Litter less Campaign

Waste bin story We are two Erasmus student of the University of Malta. We created this video to promote the zero-waste lifestyle. By using a waste bin as the focus of the video, we showed how Malta’s waste crisis could be eased by ditching single-use products.          



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The Traveller

submitted by Dun Manwel Attard Young Adult Education Resource Centre Maria Regina College : Malik Hussein  for 19-25
dissemination(s): other, Our Resource Centre Facebook Page, website
filed under Photos
awarded: 1st place Litter less Campaign

Marine litter is one of the major problems related to litter in general. This bottle, which was left on the sand, is going to end up in the sea and carried away. Plastic takes ages to disintegrate, therefore, it is affecting all animals badly since animals can easily mistake it with another animal or food. Plastic releases a lot of chemicals in the sea which affects all animals. Animals taking in poisonous chemicals eventually end up in our system once we eat such animals.



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