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Malta’s streets are not a dump yard

submitted by Naxxar Primary School : Hailey Schembri  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): school media, website
filed under Articles
awarded: Commended, Finalist

Introduction: Did you know that 17% of our waste that is thrown in the streets stays there forever? This might be very surprising to read especially when there are quite a number of bins and skips around us. The term litter refers to any kind of trash thrown in small amounts, especially in places where it doesn’t belong and by time this piles up. The most common littered items includes fast food packaging, cigarette butts, used drink bottles, chewing gum wrappers, broken electrical equipment parts, toys, broken glass, food scraps or green wastes.



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Our number one problem: street litter

submitted by Naxxar Primary School : Elise Schembri  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): school media, website
filed under Articles
awarded: Commended, Finalist

Introduction: What makes us notice when a place is littered or clean? When we are abroad why do we often compare between badly kept cities and well-kept cities? Did you know that 694kg of litter per person is thrown away in Malta each year? Litter is waste or rubbish that has been disposed wrongly without permission and at the wrong place. The word littering means throwing and leaving objects lying on the ground instead of disposing them in the appropriate bins. According to a study by the Dutch organisation VRUM, 80% of people claim that “everybody leaves a piece of paper, tin or something, on the streets behind.”



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Beeswax Wraps instead of Plastic

submitted by De La Salle College Junior School : Nathan Grech  for 7-10
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): newspaper, school magazine, school media, website
filed under Articles
awarded: Commended

The De La Salle EkoSkola Junior school committee members in collaboration with BeezNeez and Litterless campaign Malta have been working hard to reduce plastic as this harms the environment. We came across this innovative product of beeswax wraps which are reusable and a sustainable alternative to plastic. Beeswax wraps’ main purpose is for food preservation.  



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Where’s the organic bag?

submitted by ALP Paola : Alec Grima Baldacchino  for 15-18
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): school media
filed under Campaigning photo Photos
awarded: Commended

This litter can be reused, throw it in the organic bag!



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Have you tried making your own compost?

submitted by ALP Paola : Massimo Micellef  for 15-18
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): school media
filed under Campaigning photo Photos
awarded: Commended

Don’t waste leftover food litter, always create something new out of it. You can create your own compost easily.



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Choose Cycling not Driving

submitted by ALP Paola : Nikolai Galea  for 15-18
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): school media
filed under Campaigning photo Photos
awarded: Commended, Participation

Choose O2 versus CO2.



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Colour the air, let’s all care

submitted by ALP Paola : Daniel Mahlangu Booker  for 15-18
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): school media
filed under Campaigning photo Photos
awarded: Commended, Participation

Don’t let the colours fade away, walk or ride everyday.



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Ride for more green!

submitted by ALP Paola : Aaliyah Spiteri  for 15-18
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): school media
filed under Campaigning photo Photos
awarded: Commended

Ride for flowers ride for green, no more pollution is the solution.



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Yes to cloth bags no to plastic bags

submitted by St Joseph Junior School Sliema : EkoSkola committee members at SJJS  for 7-10
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): MS Teams school teams and YouTube, other, school media, website
filed under Campaigning video Video Clips
awarded: Commended

At St Joseph Junior School Sliema we are introducing a whole-school change: the use of cloth bags instead of single-use plastic to carry bottle caps to school. The EkoSkola Committee girls have created this video to explain and teach everyone how to use this cloth bag and where to dispose of the bottle caps at school. Watch this clip and let us all do our part and dispose of waste properly and wisely, at school and at home!



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Don’t litter

submitted by Naxxar Primary School : Liam Karl Skalin Caruana  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): school media, website
filed under Campaigning photo Photos
awarded: Commended

Throw the trash in the dump. The sea and the land aren’t the dumps.



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