CEIP La Mola schoolchildren collect 57 kilos of litter in the Sierra d’Irta Parc Natural
“Clean Up” day was part of actions to increase environmental awareness organised by ZONE 1 UTE and the C1 Waste Consortium, with the cooperation of Alcala-Alcossebre Council.
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47 pupils and 6 teachers from years 3 and 4 in the Primary Education Course at the Public Education Primary School La Mola, in Alcossebre, took part in the training and environmental awareness event. The activity is part of the Environmental Communication, and Awareness Plan developed by the UTE Zone 1 Bionord Project and C1 Waste Consortium with the collaboration of the Sierra d’Irta Natural Park, Alcala-Alcossebre Council and the CEIP La Mola in Alcossebre.
The activity started with a training phase in the class room presented by environmental specialists on the ideas of climate change, waste and abandoning natural spaces and on what is meant by the essence of the Sierra d’Irta Natural Park in the surroundings. This was followed by the pupils going into the Park, to emphasise their enthusiasm in participating, dividing them into four groups to start a 4 kilometre route starting from the Cala Blanca and going past the Lighthouse following the coast and collecting all sorts of litter and rubbish left behind in different natural areas (beaches, scrub areas, bushes, etc.).
The last part consisted of counting and finally the management of the exercise with the following results: 47 bagfuls collected, weighing 57 Kg, and the percentages sorted were 25.12% plastics (plastic bottles), 11.13% metals, 39.6% glass, 5.35% textiles, 18.3% paper and card, 0.5% cigarette ends. Waste such as blankets, sunbeds, plastic bottles and bags, glass bottles and jars, flip-flops, clothes, bits of iron, soft drinks cans, sanitary material and nearly 300 cigarette ends.
With this small task, they were able to: save cutting down more than three trees; to recuperate over 1,000 kW of energy; to prevent the use of primary, non-renewable materials to produce nearly 50 glass bottles and just with the cigarette ends collected we can have saved 3,000 litres of sea water from being contaminated or almost 15,000 litres of fresh water. The emission of glasshouse gases was prevented and, above all, prevented more waste accumulating in the sea damaging the marine flora and fauna.
This exercise will be repeated on 23rd May with pupils from years 1 and 2 from the Lo Campanar CEIP Primary School in Alcala.
47 pupils and 6 teachers from years 3 and 4 in the Primary Education Course at the Public Education Primary School La Mola, in Alcossebre, took part in the training and environmental awareness event. The activity is part of the Environmental Communication, and Awareness Plan developed by the UTE Zone 1 Bionord Project and C1 Waste Consortium with the collaboration of the Sierra d’Irta Natural Park, Alcala-Alcossebre Council and the CEIP La Mola in Alcossebre.
The activity started with a training phase in the class room presented by environmental specialists on the ideas of climate change, waste and abandoning natural spaces and on what is meant by the essence of the Sierra d’Irta Natural Park in the surroundings. This was followed by the pupils going into the Park, to emphasise their enthusiasm in participating, dividing them into four groups to start a 4 kilometre route starting from the Cala Blanca and going past the Lighthouse following the coast and collecting all sorts of litter and rubbish left behind in different natural areas (beaches, scrub areas, bushes, etc.).
The last part consisted of counting and finally the management of the exercise with the following results: 47 bagfuls collected, weighing 57 Kg, and the percentages sorted were 25.12% plastics (plastic bottles), 11.13% metals, 39.6% glass, 5.35% textiles, 18.3% paper and card, 0.5% cigarette ends. Waste such as blankets, sunbeds, plastic bottles and bags, glass bottles and jars, flip-flops, clothes, bits of iron, soft drinks cans, sanitary material and nearly 300 cigarette ends.
With this small task, they were able to: save cutting down more than three trees; to recuperate over 1,000 kW of energy; to prevent the use of primary, non-renewable materials to produce nearly 50 glass bottles and just with the cigarette ends collected we can have saved 3,000 litres of sea water from being contaminated or almost 15,000 litres of fresh water. The emission of glasshouse gases was prevented and, above all, prevented more waste accumulating in the sea damaging the marine flora and fauna.
This exercise will be repeated on 23rd May with pupils from years 1 and 2 from the Lo Campanar CEIP Primary School in Alcala.
