'what a load of rubbish!'.....

Over the last few months, Mr Westcott's Lower Secondary Geography group have been looking at different aspects of environmental pollution. Recently the group went to a country area near Albir to see how much rubbish people do leave behind. The results were surprising.....

For example one group picked up 4 BIG BAGS of rubbish in a small area of woodland, including tin cans, plastic bottles, cigarette packets ,sweet wrappers plus general paper products...on the left are Sofia, Ella and Amalia with their collection of rubbish......

Here are some photos of the other group who also collecting an amazing collection of rubbish plus bits of glass, batteries and gun cartridge cases. Both groups also found a large amount of dog waste which owners had not picked up...On the right are Kieron, Marcelo,Alex, Ahmar, Charlie and Maxim who also found many different types of rubbish..

Above is Ahmar with a sweet wrapper, one wrapper may not seem much, but the groups found many of these in a small area which soon add up to a large amount.....

Sadly, at the end of the park were a group of recycling bins where, with a bit of thought, rubbish could easily have been put....The whole group took part enthusiastically in the project, and at least they are now aware of the need to recycle rubbish and keep our beautiful environment clean and tidy. The last picture shows the view from the top of the hill where we collected the rubbish. It is the kind of view we all want to save for the future....