Fun eco-friendly project at Louisiana Primary
The learners were asked to fill Coca-Cola bottles with plastic crisp packets, sweet wrappers and all soft plastic material that they could find littering the ground.
Learners at Louisiana Primary were amazed to see what could be done with 2 litre Coca-Cola plastic bottles and a heap of plastic waste.
Last week, the Jane Goodall Roots and Shoots Foundation, with the help of the Green Net and a group of learners, known as the Earth Kids built a sturdy bench at the school’s soccer field. From the beginning of the year, the learners were asked to fill Coca-Cola bottles with plastic crisp packets, sweet wrappers and all soft plastic material that they could find littering the ground.
The learners’ eco-bricks together with the huge number that were donated by the Green Net were used to build the bench.
The construction of the bench lasted two mornings, and during this time it attracted the attention of many of the younger learners, who saw and appreciated what was happening and got stuck in and collected every single teeny-weeny bit of plastic from the school ground to donate to the eco-brick builders.
Plastic can take from 20 to 500 hundred years to break down and decompose and is the main source of litter found in rivers, storm water and the oceans. Birds, small animals and water creatures eat or get tangled in plastic waste leading to starvation, injury and death.
Well done to all at Louisiana Primary for taking this first step in creating a better and cleaner world.
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