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Organic Waste – Being part of a pilot project

submitted by St. Francis Primary School Cospicua : EkoSkola Committee  for 7-10
dissemination(s): other, school media, website, youtube
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The objectives behind this project is to reduce the size of the black bag, make better use of landfill availability, reduce bio waste landfilling, and avoiding Green House Gas emissions to then increase Renewable Energy generation from Bio Waste. All the community of our school is taking part in this project and we are changing our waste disposal routine by separating: 1) Food Waste – Cooked & Raw, Fish & Shellfish, Bread & Pasta, Tea bags & grinded coffee. 2) Food Preparation Waste – Fruit & Vegetable peels, Egg shells, 3) Paper/Napkins/Newspapers contaminated with Food Waste 4) Leaves & Flowers To be able to do this Wasteserv Malta gave us organic bags which were given to us by the Head of School and the members of EkoSkola committee. We are doing our best to make this project a success.

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My Footprint Counts

submitted by Cospicua St Margaret College Boys' Secondary Verdala : Blake Vassallo, Islam Nessim, Jerome Gatt, Kyle Dalli, Negai Galea Conti, Neville Coleiro, Sven Gatt  for 11-14
dissemination(s): Blog, Facebook, other, School Exhibition, school magazine, website
filed under Articles

The Students’ Council of St Margaret College, Verdala, made the environment one of its priorities this year. In fact they’ve been the main driving force behind the school’s eTwinning project ‘My Footprint Counts’ and have collaborated with schools in Poland, Portugal and Georgia to raise awareness of the Carbon Footprint of our daily choices. The aim was that the school ends the year with a better awareness of the environmental impact of everyday actions, because it was felt many teenagers don’t really appreciate their environmental responsibility.

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Water Quiz

submitted by Mater Boni Consilii St. Joseph Paola : Haley Cassar  for 11-14
dissemination(s): Eco School Noticeboard, other, school media, website
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This article was written to report what happened during the Water Quiz that was organised by HSBC Catch the Drop Campaign that occurred on the 15th of March 2016.

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The Beach Trap

submitted by Maria Regina Mosta Girls Secondary : Casey Mifsud, Samira Axiak, Winona Attard McCarthy  for 11-14
dissemination(s): school magazine
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Attract the dragon to keep mosquitoes away

submitted by Cospicua St Margaret College Boys' Secondary Verdala : Luke Agius  for 15-18
dissemination(s): newspaper, school magazine, website
filed under Photos

Neptume Project in Dock 1, Cospicua is an innovative and sustainable project meant to purify waste sewage water to irrigate the green areas of the promenade. However, the pond water used in the phytoremediation process can attract mosquitoes with the risk of spreading the Zika virus. Therefore, attracting dragonflies to the ponds can be a safe and natural way of controlling mosquitoes. Dragonflies might look like scary biters but in fact they can only harm mosquitoes. So planting proper plants in ponds can easily attract adult dragonflies which feed on adult mosquitoes. Dragonflies will also breed their larvae called “nymphs” in the ponds to feed on mosquito larvae. To guarantee this natural process, the ponds must be shallow at one end and deep at the other end respectively with more aquatic plants and flat rocks surrounding them. Dragonfly insects can help us keep the mosquito population in Cospicua under control.



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