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Don’t throw plastic
in the sea,
BEMED WORKS ALONGSIDE CHILDREN Please protect the sea!!
put it in the bin!
Malia
FOR AN AWARENESS AFTERNOON.

The purpose of this event was to get children to be more aware of the scope of the problem
and to get them to reflect on simple solutions which they can implement at their own level.

Five workshops were offered:

1 Quiz
The children took part in a quiz regarding the problem of plastic waste. Some of the topics discussed included production
and waste degradation time, recycling, impacts on the environment and impact on human health.

2 “Surprises of the sea”
By getting them to put their hands in opaque boxes, the children had to identify the waste and natural elements found
on our beaches and put the waste in the correct bins.

3 “Waste degradation time”
The children were able to learn about the degradation time of waste found in the ocean by ranking them in order from most
degradable to least degradable and by placing them on a timeline.

4 “Heroes of the Ocean”
By sharing their ideas on how to reduce plastic pollution in the Ocean on a daily basis, the children learned about three
watchwords: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle (the three Rs). They left with a “heroes of the Ocean” card on which they copied the
three actions which they preferred, one for each of the three Rs.

5 “Message in a bottle”
By playing as Captain Nemo in The Mysterious Island (Jules Verne), the
To protect
the Ocean, don’t throw
rubbish on the ground as it will children wrote messages for the Ocean. Each message was shared with the
rest of the class and then slid into a glass bottle.
end up in the Ocean.
Please recycle it instead!
Maelle