Educating the community against irresponsibly discarding the single greatest source of ocean trash:

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WHAT will be done

Description:

This year, all students at Vittoriosa Primary School, will be taking aim at systematically seeking to educate the community to properly dispose off and eliminate cigarette butts, the single most collected and ubiquitous item on the world’s beaches. Our committed students at Vittoriosa Primary School will be taking on the role of activists to educate the community against discarding cigarette butts irresponsibly for they negatively impact and contaminate the world’s oceans. Students will organise a clean up by the sea and collect a sample study by calculating the amount of cigarette butts collected in an evaluated and determined area. Students will then organise a meeting with the local council to discuss and put forth their plans to organise a protest walk against the most littered item in the world and persuade the local council to set up cigarette bins in all parts of the city, a suggestion which must be initiated urgently in Vittoriosa. Portable ashtrays will also be discussed. Slogans and banners will also be carried by students who will be expected to prepare them in class with teachers and LSEs during lesson time. A video will also be taken during the protest walk and members of EkoSkola will also be discussing with residents what happens when cigarette butts are dumped directly on to beaches. In this case, cigarette butts are washed into the oceans and disintegrated into microplastics easily consumed by marine life.

Location

WHERE it will take place

Country:

Malta

Address:

Vittoriosa
St Edward Street
BRG9031
BRG 9031

Action Developer

WHO will run the show

Entity:

St Margaret College Vittoriosa Primary School
# Educational Establishment

How can you get in contact:

www.ekoskolabirgu.com
You may wish to contact EkoSkola link teacher Mr Melvin Tonna by email on melvin.tonna@ilearn.edu.mt or head of school Ms Lorna Schembri on lorna.schembri@ilearn.edu.mt

• WHEN

will it happen?

Dates of the proposed action:

18/11/2019, 19/11/2019, 20/11/2019, 21/11/2019, 22/11/2019

• WHY

join hands and minds to prevent waste?

Check out other actions that will cover these themes:

Clean-up actionsThematic Focus: invisible waste

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