Our Pledge:

Plastic-Free School

Our Global Goals:

clean water and sanitation
good health and well-being
life on land
life below water

What is Climate Change?...

Climate change is the process of our planet heating up.The Earth has warmed by 1 c in the last century,and although that might not sound like much, it means big things for people and wildlife around the globe. Unfortunately, rising temperatures don't just mean that we`ll get nicer weather-if only! The changing climate will actually make our weather more extreme and unpredictable.

Plastic is awful for our environment and a major cause of climate change:

Plastics can release harmful chemicals into the surrounding soil and water.
This can cause harm to the species that eat the food and drink the water, including us!
Burning of plastic releases poisonous chemicals.
Ocean Crusaders say that a single bag can kill numerous animals. It takes so long for a plastic bag to break down, an animal can eat it and die and decompose, re-releasing it into the environment.
Only 1% of plastic is recycled!

Our Leave No One Behind Pledge is to become a Plastic-Free School.

Plastic Free School!

No cling filim
no straws
No sandwich bags
No plastic

PLASTIC FREE IS GOOD FOR ME!

Single use plastics are very bad for the environment. We as a school are already getting rid of single use plastics in our lunch boxes. We survey our lunch boxes weekly. Surveys show that 96% of the lunch boxes in school are single-use plastic free.

If you can't reuse it, refuse it!: Using our twitter account we challenged other schools to post their plastic-free selfie. We hope we helped other schools see that it is very easy and possible to do!

Our wish is to save the fish.

There are 5000 times more pieces of microplastic in the sea than there are stars in our galaxy!

It is estimated that by 2050 that there will be more plastic than fish.

We had a visit from the Seal Sanctuary Ireland and we learned about the damage cased by plastics in our seas. We adopted two seals, Egg and Sundae. They were nursed back to health. Egg had been seriously injured by old fishing nets. He lost a flipper and a his eye was damaged.

Ffion and Jesh showed us how to make furniture and eco bricks from plastic that can't be easily recycled, like crisp packets.

YOU'RE FANTASTIC IF YOU DON'T USE PLASTIC!

Swap cling film for a bento style lunch box. These boxes have separate compartments to keep food separate.

Swap plastic sandwich bags for kitchen towel or paper sandwich pockets. We found great ones in two major supermarkets.

Swap plastic bottles and containers with straws for reusable bottles.

Be careful not to replace plastic with tin foil! Tin foil can only be recycled if it is clean and dry.

PLASTIC FREE IS BARKING UP THE RIGHT TREE

Irish Aid and Dunia Designs: Leave No One Behind

Irish Aid is used to fight hunger and poverty all over the world. We learned about the 8 partner countries that Irish Aid work with by supporting NGOs like Concern and Trocaire.

We found out that there are different types of aid: humanitarian aid and developmental aid.

Dunia Designs

We learned about Dunia Designs in Tanzania, Africa. Two Irish people started the company. They employ and pay people to collect plastics from the streets. The plastic is washed and dried. It is then recycled into furniture and other designs. They also help local people pay for school fees to go back to school and to finish college.

No pollution is the only solution!

Between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean each year according in 2015.

At least 100 million marine mammals are killed each year from plastic pollution.

100,000 marine creatures die a year from eating plastic.

Five countries just straight up dump there plastic in the ocean.

What we have done to stop plastic pollution:

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

We have reduced the amount of plastic in our school by asking students and parents to simply reduce the amount of single use plastics in lunchboxes. Now, an astonishing 96% of lunchboxes are absolutely plastic free! We also encourage reusable bottles in our school.

What is plastic doing to our environment?

There are many reasons that plastic is terrible to our environment and how it is destroying our earth. Here are some:

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