Protect the sea, the source of life

Brainstorming

We are interested in the garbage in the sea. I like to go to the aquarium. We can see many kind of beautiful fishes. However, there are not that's great view in the sea. One of that reasons is garbage of the sea. Why the amount of garbage increases in the sea？ I think that it is necessary to solve this situation.

According to a survey by the Ministry of the Environment, of the plastic garbage that flows out into the sea every year, it is estimated that about 20,000 to 60,000 tons originated from Japan.

私たちは海のゴミに興味がある。私は水族館に行くことが好きだ。私たちはたくさんの美しい魚たちを見ることができる。しかしながら、海ではそういった景色を見ることができない。その理由の一つとして海のゴミがあげられる。なぜ海にゴミが増えるのか、私はこの現状を解決する必要があると思う。

環境省の調査によると、毎年海に流出するプラスチックゴミの内、約2～6万トンが日本から発生したものであると推測される。

Fieldwork

1. Narrow down your (SDG-related) topic(s) or problems you are interested in.

① collect garbage(Atami, Mochimune, Shimizu...)

　 ①−2 the amount of garbage in the beach

②interview with people who use the beach, for example, angler, surfer and so on

2. Hypothesis or question

   • What do you know?

The amount of garbage varies depending on the season. It increases from summer to autumn.

2. • How did you become interested in this?

Originally I like to go the aquarium, so I became interested in the situation of the sea.

2. • What should you know about?

I should know the situation of the sea and think how to reduce garbage in the sea and the beach.

2. • Question: What is the amount and type of garbage in the sea and the beach?

Hypothesis: It depends on the location, but I think a lot of garbage is falling during this season such as bottles, and handheld fireworks.

3. How will you collect data to answer the question?

   • Things. (e.g., observe and notes, photos, audio, video, collect and tally, ???, ???, ???).

Taking photos, asking angers, connecting with people who are doing activities about plastic garbage.

3. • Locations. (home, street, train, shops, school, job, city, books, documents, nature, media, internet, SNS, ???, ???, ???)

In the sea, at school and on SNS.

3. • Describe your process, step by step. Be specific.

We are going to go to the sea in Shizuoka and take photos of the falling garbage.

We ask people who use the beach such as anglers and surfers how you feel about the garbage in the sea.

Using the collected data, we examine trends.

And then...

4. Do a risk assessment. Are there any dangers involved in your data collection?

We are going to take pictures in the sea, so I have to watch out for sea waves.

5. Collect and record data

6. Analyze data

I went to the sea in Shizuoka city.

I took photos of the garbage falling in the sea.

The following is an example of what I picked up.

Cans, plastic bottles, caps, bottles, bags, and paper waste.

The photos I took are posted in this account.

https://www.instagram.com/sdgs__pbl__2a/

7. Answer your question or hypothesis using your data. Present your answer clearly. Summarize and highlight important aspects. Why are your findings interesting?

Depending on the locations, the amount of garbage was not very large in this place. However, the types of garbage that had fallen were almost as expected.

8. Reflect. Do an evaluation of your process and data. (what problems did you realize from your data/analysis? What could/should you do better next time?)

Even though it is near the sea, garbage is usually found in places where people can walk. In other words, even if people see the garbage, they just pass by.

9. Connect. How does this fieldwork connect to you and your future?

It connects to the maintenance of the beautiful scenery of the world.

10. Analyze data. What does your data show? What are the trends and outliers, main aspects and minor interesting details in the data?

Not a little there is garbage in the sea, and the description of number 8, there are people who feel that "it is natural that garbage is in the sea."

11.Answer your question or hypothesis using your data. Present your answer clearly. Summarize and highlight important aspects. Why are your findings interesting?

Since it's summer, there was a lot of drink-related garbage such as cans and plastic bottle caps.

12.Reflect. Do an evaluation of your process and data. (what problems did you realize from your data/analysis? What could/should you do better next time?)

Same as number 8.

13.Connect. How does this fieldwork connect to you and your future?

Same as number 9.