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1st place Litter less Campaign

If you won’t do this to me, then why do you do this to my future?

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 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 individual : Elisa Demanuele for 7-10
campaign: yre-entry
dissemination(s): Local Council noticeboard, newspaper, other, website
filed under Photos reporting-photo
awarded: 1st place Litter less Campaign

Careless litterers are causing damage on marine life. The message is clear: we do not live separated from the environment. What goes around comes around

submitted by Maria Regina College Middle School Naxxar : Thea Frendo for 11-14
campaign: yre-entry
dissemination(s): school media
filed under Photos reporting-photo
awarded: 1st place Litter less Campaign, 2nd place international

Use the bins please!

submitted by Dun Manwel Attard Young Adult Education Resource Centre Maria Regina College : Jean Mizzi for 19-25
campaign: yre-entry
dissemination(s): Facebook and Noticeboard, other, school media, website
filed under Photos reporting-photo
awarded: 1st place Litter less Campaign

This receipt is showing the increase in the expenses we are paying due to the huge amount of waste that is produced in our environment. Therefore the use of natural resources in our everyday life must be accompanied by serious efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle these materials. Only that way can we lessen the burden of ourselves, our development on nature and our environment.

submitted by Maria Regina College Dun Manwel Attard Young Adult Education Resource Centre : Shaun Grech for 15-18
campaign: yre-entry
dissemination(s): Facebook, noticeboard, other, school media, website
filed under Photos reporting-photo
awarded: 1st place international, 1st place Litter less Campaign

This snail’s natural habitat is supposed to be surrounded by plants and other animals and not waste. The overuse of plastics and their careless disposal into our environment is leading to it having extensively infiltrated our food chain and natural spaces. Moreover, animals such as this snail are ending up in the wrong place such as in this case, the plastic bottle, and are eventually left to die.

submitted by G.F.Abela Junior College Malta Msida : Gabrielle Zarb for 15-18
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): Instagram, other, school notice board and school online newsletter (still to upload), school media
filed under Campaigning photo Photos
awarded: 1st place Litter less Campaign

No longer shall we be looking up and getting a glance of our sun …but mountains of plastic. In this photo, the message I’m trying to convey is, the fact that if we keep on living by our selfish ways, sooner or later we won’t be able to look around us and appreciate our beautiful and natural surroundings. Instead we will be living in our own plastic waste. This degrading plastic fragment was found on a local beach one of the millions which litters our beaches … homes to marine organisms.

submitted by St. Thomas More Secondary School Zejtun : Marija Camilleri for 11-14
campaign: YRE Entry
dissemination(s): other, School monitor in the reception area, school magazine, website
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: 1st place Litter less Campaign

Modern societies have adopted a throw-away culture. In Europe, in 2015, each person has generated an average of 477kg of municipal waste. In Malta alone, each person generates more than 600kg of waste yearly. Environmental awareness has helped for disposing of our waste wisely by reusing and recycling paper, metal, plastic and glass. However, we are still wasting resources as we are throwing away organic matter generated in our households through food scraps, vegetable waste, tea bags, dead leaves and twigs. Nature shows us clearly that one man’s waste can be another’s treasure. Instead of filling our landfills with organic waste, we can give nature the opportunity to do its job and break it down into compost. Compost can then be used to enrich soil with the nutrients it needs.

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