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Cigarette butts are litter too

submitted by Gozo College Middle School : Saviour Vella  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: Finalist

Littered cigarette butts account for one in every 3 items collected during a beach clean-up at Ħondoq Bay in Gozo, making it the largest form of litter. Become environmentally conscious, no one wants to see your dirty butts!!

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Lethal litter

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: Finalist

Excessive use of plastic and incorrect disposal of waste is ending up on our shores posing a threat to marine life. Sea animals and birds can get entangled and eventually die.

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It’s just a straw!

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: Finalist

One of the most common uses of plastic in our world today is disposable straws. Although plastic straws can be recycled, their small size makes them easily missed in the recycling process. If the disposable straw is not recycled properly, it can find its way back into our environment where it poses many threats. There is a simple switch we can all make, reusable straws. Reusable straws can help reduce the amount of plastic we leave behind, making our world a better place.

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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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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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