On Saturday 16 April, the team from Osborne State School
made the trek to Alva Beach to participate in the Tangaroa Blue Alva Beach
Clean Up morning.Tangaroa Blue
Foundation is an Australian-wide not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the
removal and prevention of marine debris.
The students, parents and teachers arrived bright and early, all keen to
help clean up one of our beautiful local beaches. After a short safety briefing, the team
headed off to the beach, clean up bags in hand.
The students worked tirelessly, gathering over 20kg ofrubbishh! All sorts of rubbish was collected from the
shoreline including numerous pieces of plastic, swathes of bottles tops, chip
packets, plastic bags, bits of rope and even a number of thongs (no pairs
unfortunately!). Once the bulging bags
of rubbish had been returned to the clean-up station in the park, students set
to sorting the rubbish to find out exactly what was the worst polluter of the
day. From the bags we sorted, bottle
tops and plastic were by far the worst offenders. The students had a great time finding out
more about marine pollution and how to prevent this happening in the
future. We look forward to our next
opportunity to help look after our local environment.