11-14

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.



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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.



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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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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.



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Litterally no butts abouts it

submitted by SIC Luqa Primary : Amber Rose Chinonye Abanifi  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): website
filed under Reporting photo
awarded: Participation

LITTERally no BUTTS about it Last Thursday, together with some members from the EkoSkola committee and the Pupil’s Council committee, we carried out a cigarette butt clean up in the vicinities of our school in Luqa. We also identified places where there was a considerable amount of cigarette butts since we are planning to install ashtrays in these target areas to reduce the amount of litter in our locality. We picked up so many cigarette butts that the bag started to stink. We found a considerable amount of cigarette butts in front of the church and close to the war memorial in St Andrew’s Street. People need to stop smoking as they are harming the environment. Smoking also damages their health. Some people get lung cancer or suffer from Emphysema which is one of the diseases you can get. If you have someone at home who smokes try to encourage



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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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Cleaning-up and maintenance at Swatar Field

submitted by St. Aloysius College Secondary School : Dale Delceppo  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): school media
filed under Reporting photo
awarded: Participation

A clean-up and maintenance activity was held was the Swatar Field by the EkoSkola committee together with Mr David Azzopardi and Ms Sasha Borg. Students under the supervision of the teachers conducted some pruning and weeding. The aim was to give students a hands on experience in the field.



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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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Fast Fashion

submitted by St. Joseph School, Sliema : Alexandra Vassallo, Amy Cassar, Christine Casha  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): school media, website
filed under Articles
awarded: Commended

In preparation for the EWWR students were introduced to the waste generated by the fashion industry. They were given alternatives on how to minimise this waste.



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