This article was written by Kirra Year 6 and Lotus Year 3 for the Scoop. Photos taken by Nathan and Dean
Last Friday Heidi from Tangaroa Blue and Bernadette from the Eurobodalla Shire Council came to Broulee Public School to talk to the students about how important putting your rubbish in the bin is and how important it is we help stop pollution.
We also learnt many ways we can stop rubbish getting on our beaches. Heidi told us a story about a shovel nosed stingray that has a hair band caught around its nose.
The project that they are working on is called “Australian Marine Debris Initiative”. Tangaroa Blue started in New Zealand and is currently working on 1748 different sites.
During one beach clean up, they found 7154 thongs and at a clean up on the Great Ocean Road, they found tonnes of cigarette buts. To solve that problem they put bins along the beach and this seemed to work.
Heidi also showed us a mockumentary called ‘The Majestic Plastic Bag’.
She told us that Data is almost as important as getting rid of the rubbish. Since 2004 more than 2 million pieces of data have been recorded on the Australian Debris Database creating an overview of what amounts and types of marine debris are impacting on beaches around our country.
Broulee Public School have adapted North Broulee beach and as each class undertakes beach clean ups throughout the year, we will be adding statistics to the data base.
The talk that Heidi gave was very informative and we thank her and Bernadette for taking the time to talk to us.
Note: Marine Debris is also known as marine litter and it is human waste created by humans that is either deliberately or accidentally released into lakes, seas, oceans or waterways
So it is our problem to solve.
Last Friday Heidi from Tangaroa Blue and Bernadette from the Eurobodalla Shire Council came to Broulee Public School to talk to the students about how important putting your rubbish in the bin is and how important it is we help stop pollution.
We also learnt many ways we can stop rubbish getting on our beaches. Heidi told us a story about a shovel nosed stingray that has a hair band caught around its nose.
The project that they are working on is called “Australian Marine Debris Initiative”. Tangaroa Blue started in New Zealand and is currently working on 1748 different sites.
During one beach clean up, they found 7154 thongs and at a clean up on the Great Ocean Road, they found tonnes of cigarette buts. To solve that problem they put bins along the beach and this seemed to work.
Heidi also showed us a mockumentary called ‘The Majestic Plastic Bag’.
She told us that Data is almost as important as getting rid of the rubbish. Since 2004 more than 2 million pieces of data have been recorded on the Australian Debris Database creating an overview of what amounts and types of marine debris are impacting on beaches around our country.
Broulee Public School have adapted North Broulee beach and as each class undertakes beach clean ups throughout the year, we will be adding statistics to the data base.
The talk that Heidi gave was very informative and we thank her and Bernadette for taking the time to talk to us.
Note: Marine Debris is also known as marine litter and it is human waste created by humans that is either deliberately or accidentally released into lakes, seas, oceans or waterways
So it is our problem to solve.