Litter Picking

One of the first things we did as a part of our ACCA project was a litter pick around our school. From the results of our survey and from inspecting our school community, it was clear there has been an increase in littering around the school. We decided that we would take action and make our school a cleaner environment.

Ms Nash's 5th and 6th and Mr Harte’s 6th split into groups and each group was assigned a different area of the school to pick up rubbish.

Some of the rubbish items which we collected were plastic bottles, glass bottles, plastic containers, and sweet wrappers etc. We noticed that there was a lot more rubbish than we expected as you will see in one of the pictures at the top of this page.

Many of the bags were filled with single use coffee cups and single use plastic bottles. As a team, we believed that we needed to do something about all the single-use plastic that we were seeing both inside and outside our school environment.