11-14

Bench with a View

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!



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Have we become too dependent on plastic to realise the situation is becoming suffocating?

submitted by St Benedict College Middle School Kirkop : EkoSkola Committee  for 11-14
campaign: litter-less-campaign-entry
dissemination(s): newspaper, school magazine, school media, website
filed under campaigning-photo Photos
awarded: 2nd place Litter less Campaign, Finalist



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Fighting for survival…is the environment worth fighting for?

submitted by St Benedict College Middle School Kirkop : EkoSkola Committee  for 11-14
campaign: litter-less-campaign-entry
dissemination(s): newspaper, school magazine, school media, website
filed under Photos reporting-photo
awarded: Best Entry, Commended, Finalist



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The orange bloom

submitted by Our Lady Immaculate School : Emma Brownrigg Fenech  for 11-14
campaign: yre-entry
dissemination(s): website
filed under Photos reporting-photo
awarded: Finalist, Honorable Mention, YREstayshome

Time spent amongst flowers is never time wasted. The importance of green spaces in the urbanised areas, especially during this current situation of COVID-19, which helps in the overall wellbeing of humans.



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A new species of palm tree?

submitted by St Augustine College : Benjamin Borg  for 11-14
campaign: yre-entry
dissemination(s): newspaper, school magazine, school media
filed under Photos reporting-photo
awarded: Commended, Finalist, Honorable Mention

Rising over the Maltese skyline is a new species of palm tree hovering above buildings and people. Is this is an endemic species or a pandemic of construction fever?



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The Borage plant

submitted by St Augustine College : Christopher Portelli, Gabriel Pullicino  for 11-14
campaign: yre-entry
dissemination(s): newspaper, school magazine, school media
filed under Photos reporting-photo
awarded: Commended, Honorable Mention

The Borage plant, Borago officinalis, is also known as Fidloqqom in Maltese is an indigenous plant that adapts to any condition and grows in garigues and roadsides especially in Buskett, Dingli and most valleys in Malta. It’s a favourite plant for bees and is a grassy annual plant with hairy stems and triangular, blue leaves. It is also grown in gardens as its leaves are edible, it’s a nutritious plant that is used in salads and it is often used as a medicinal herb mainly for gastrointestinal, respiratory and circulatory disorders.



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Consequences and actions

submitted by Maria Regina College Middle School Naxxar : Ella Rose Clarke  for 11-14
campaign: yre-entry
dissemination(s): school media
filed under Photos reporting-photo
awarded: 3rd place Litter less campaign, Finalist

Your consequences, are my actions! Don’t litter our beaches!



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The Scream

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.



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Nurdle Hurdle

submitted by St. Thomas More College Secondary School Zejtun : Katrina Vella  for 11-14
campaign: Litter Less Campaign Entry
dissemination(s): assembly, noticeboard, other, school magazine, school media, website
filed under Photos Reporting photo
awarded: Commended

Nurdles, the name of the, not so sweet, as it might sound, raw material of the plastic industry. The building blocks for plastic bottles, plastic bags and drinking straws – in fact almost anything made up from plastic. However, nurdles are also covering our beaches. It is estimated that 73% of beach litter is plastic. Ingestion of plastic kills more than 1,000,000 marine creatures each year, while humans end up eating thousands of microplastics through the consumption of seafood. Studies by the European Union and the University of Malta show that only ⅓ of the plastic used in Malta is being recycled. Most of the remaining ⅔ end up in the sea. So, let’s get over the hurdle and do away with the nurdle!



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