What an amazing visit

Our focus on education is straight forward: create large-scale awareness of the problem and provide achievable solutions. We teach simple steps and creative changes that anyone can make to prevent litter from getting to our coastlines in the first place. In other words: the fence at the top of the cliff, not just the ambulance at the bottom.

http://sustainablecoastlines.org

Today we were lucky enough to have Mr Cochrane come to talk to us about having a sustainable coastline. We learned that every piece of rubbish that goes into the drain ends up in our precious oceans where it causes problems. We were unlucky however in that Mr Cochrane showed us pictures of sea life that had been killed through eating plastic. We also saw a turtle that was disfigured from getting the plastic ring from a milk bottle stuck around its middle. It was really horrible to see and it showed us how careful we have to be with our rubbish.
As a class we learned that we need to make sure that any rubbish goes into the bin and if we see rubbish we must pick it up so it cannot get into our waterway.
We are trying to organise a rubbish clean up of our local Causeway and we will keep you informed of what happens.