Commended

The wonders of reusing

submitted by Mellieha Primary : Isaac Duca  for 7-10
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): other, school noticeboard, school media
filed under Articles
awarded: Commended

Throughout the years we have constantly been learning about the 3R’S, Reducing, Rcycling and Reusing. Finally, as an EkoSkola Member at Mellieha Primary School, I came to terms with the true meaning of reusing through a project that we are doing for the school yard. Practically, pallets and used tyres are being used to create benches and stools for the designated reading are in the school yard.



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Single-Use Plastic Bomb Waste

submitted by SNC Dingli Primary School : Sean Farrugia  for 7-10
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): College Social Media, other, school noticeboard, school media, Story Jumper eBook, website
filed under Articles
awarded: Commended

Plastic bomb waste. In the photo above, you can see a plastic bag, plastic bottle and plastic straw. All these items are single-use plastic while on the other side you can see a cloth bag, glass cup, metal straw, metal fork and glass bottle. All these are not plastic! Examples of plastic include: plastic forks and knives, plastic bags, plastic coffee cup lids, plastic bottles, Styrofoam and of course, plastic straws. As Mr Borg, Assistant Head of Dingli Primary School said: “We encourage children in our school to use reusable cups and containers for their lunch”. I agree with him because there are some children who use single-use plastic.



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End Single-Use Plastic

submitted by SNC Dingli Primary School : Zoe Sciberras  for 7-10
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): Facebook page, noticeboard, other, school media, Story Jumper eBook, website
filed under Articles
awarded: Commended

Single-use plastics are plastics that are only used once and then thrown away. These usually include cups, plates, cutlery and straws. These single-use items are sold with plastic wrappers in many supermarkets.



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A World of Plastic

submitted by SNC Dingli Primary School : Gregory Bugeja  for 7-10
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): College Social Media, other, school noticeboard, school media, Story Jumper eBook, website
filed under Articles
awarded: Commended

Single-use plastics are plastics which are used once and then thrown into landfills, and often ending up in oceans. Single-use plastics include: plastic bags, straws, plastic bottles and product wrapping.



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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.



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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.



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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



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Relief to Coral Reef

submitted by St. Thomas More College Secondary School Zejtun : Alexia Vlachakis  for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): assembly, Facebook, notice board, other, school magazine, school media, website
filed under Articles
awarded: Commended, Participation

The article investigates the problem being faced by coral reef due to pollution. It summarises ways we can adopt to decrease our impact on such reefs.



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Change your waste reduce your waste

submitted by St. Thomas More College Secondary School Zejtun : Vanni Caruana  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): assembly, Facebook, notive board, other, school magazine, school media, website
filed under Articles
awarded: Commended

The articles report the activities performed in the school during the EWWR. They focused on waste reduction and also on other initiatives to re-use plastic bottles as bird feeders.



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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!



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