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1st place Litter less Campaign

Litterless Initiatives in the Cottonera Area

submitted by Cospicua. Senior Secondary School St. Margaret College Verdala : Aceline Grixti, Annastasia Darmanin, Katriel Zahra, Kylieanna Apap, Martina Magro, Maruska Pulis for 11-14
campaign: yre-entry
dissemination(s): school media, website
filed under reporting-video video-clips
awarded: 1st place Litter less Campaign, 2nd place international, Finalist

This video shows students of SMC Senior Secondary School, Verdala, Cospicua, doing an investigation about the large usage of plastics that people consume daily. Students did a vox-pop at the Vittoriosa Street Market where among a couple of questions, participants were encouraged to give their feedback about the usage of plastic bags. An interview was also carried out with the three Mayors of Cospicua, Vittoriosa and Senglea. Although a lot of information was provided to the students, this short video only shows comments about plastic usage and other solutions provided by local councils to reduce plastic consumption. You Tube Link:

submitted by G.F Abela Junior College : Gillian Vella, Leandros Catania for 15-18
campaign: yre-entry
dissemination(s): newspaper
filed under Articles
awarded: 1st place Litter less Campaign, 3rd place international, Finalist

8 years after the beginning of the initiative of creating a water fountain system at the Junior College, we have put in research efforts in order to assess students’ perceptions and state of use of these fountains. This research was conducted through an online survey consisting of 150 student participants or approximately 8.4% of the students attending the college.

submitted by St. Albert the Great College : Charlette Saliba for 7-10
campaign: litter-less-campaign-entry
dissemination(s): school media
filed under campaigning-photo Photos
awarded: 1st place Litter less Campaign, Finalist

submitted by St Edward's College : St Edward's Eko-Skola Committee for 11-14
campaign: litter-less-campaign-entry
dissemination(s): other, Social Media, website
filed under Photos reporting-photo
awarded: 1st place Litter less Campaign, Finalist, International Honorable Mention

Strolling around St Thomas Bay in Marsascala is a treat. But what is the view from this bench? After the weekend, near this bench all you could see was rubbish! Pizza box, wrappers, beer cans and soft drink bottles. Why? The Maltese should be ‘staying home’ but some people are still going out and eating their ‘take-aways’ out in the fresh air. What they are NOT doing is disposing of their litter properly! All that rubbish can easily blow away in the sea! The disgrace of it all? The Marsaskala Local Council have installed bins near EVERY BENCH! As you can see from the last photo, there are bins everywhere so there is NO excuse not to dispose of the waste properly! Thumbs Up for the Local Council of Marsascala! Thumbs Down to the public who have forgotten how to use bins during this pandemic!

submitted by ALP Paola : Naomi Farrugia for 15-18
campaign: litter-less-campaign-entry
dissemination(s): school media
filed under campaigning-photo Photos
awarded: 1st place Litter less Campaign, Finalist, International Honorable Mention

Our time is running out, let’s reduce the amount of plastic that we use.

submitted by Our Lady Immaculate : Team Work for 11-14
campaign: litter-less-campaign-entry
dissemination(s): other, school media, website, youtube
filed under campaigning-video video-clips
awarded: 1st place Litter less Campaign, Finalist

This is a short video clip to raise awareness on the harmful effects of plastic bags. This clip was created by a group of students and their teachers who form part of the Litterless group at Our Lady Immaculate School in Hamrun. The message is simple unless we do something today we will be harming future generations. We have to stop using plastic bags and instead we must start to use reusable bags.

submitted by St. Thomas More College Secondary School Zejtun : Aidan Jo Desira, Christine Desira, Daniel Attard, Jodie Sultana, Katrina Abela, Kelly Bor, Leanne Cassar, Nick Muscat, Sera Bonanno, Vanni Caruana, Zoe Zammit for 11-14
campaign: litter-less-campaign-entry
dissemination(s): assembly, blogs, Facebook, Instagram, notice board, other, school magazine, school media, streets, tv, website
filed under Articles
awarded: 1st place Litter less Campaign, Finalist

This article is about a campaign held by a group of students from St. Thomas Moore Secondary School Zejtun about the use of single-use plastic bags. It describes the process done during the campaign but also discusses the results obtained from two surveys conducted. The camapign proved to be very successful as the students managed to adopt seven injured turtles as well.

submitted by SNC Dingli Primary School : Liam Reick Zahra for 7-10
campaign: yre-entry
dissemination(s): College Social Media, other, school noticeboard, school media, Story Jumper eBook, website
filed under Articles
awarded: 1st place Litter less Campaign, Finalist

Have you seen this amount of plastic overflowing in a skip? Did you know that to produce 14 plastic bags it takes the equivalent amount of the fuel required to drive one mile? This picture was taken in Mrieħel next to some shops. Action could have been taken by reducing packaging and saying “no” to single-use plastic. As a student at Dingli Primary School, I am aware that lots of action is being taken by the school to reduce plastic waste.

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.

submitted by St. Nicholas College Rabat MIddle School : Eco-schools Committee for 11-14
campaign: litter-less-campaign-entry
dissemination(s): Made into a leaflet and distributed to people we found in the Rabat square., other, school media, website
filed under Articles
awarded: 1st place international, 1st place Litter less Campaign

We wrote this article to spread the word about the worrying data we collected about the local Junk Mail situation during our Litter-Less research. We managed to enroll 9 families in our school community and they agreed to keep the junk mail they received over a period of two months. We then weighed that mail and calculated the amount the families would have collected over a year. We also estimated how much junk mail would have been collected if we had to multiply the results to the number of dwellings in Malta. Moreover we estimated the number of trees that would have to be cut down to create all that paper that will end up as Junk Mail. The results we obtained were mind blowing and all this after the massive ‘Sort it out’ campaign. Are we really sorting it out?

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