“My children really enjoyed this kit. We visited our local beach 4x to view prior to clean 3 weeks on a row. We also took a senior class on one of our visits to show them what we do. The gloves were great they children liked wearing them and we have names them for further visits. I loved the coloured posters.”
“Cashmere Avenue School senior syndicate had a big rubbish day. On Tuesday 16 June, everyone (just over 100 children) searched and gathered rubbish around the area that they live in and/or live nearby . The amount of rubbish we found was astonishing. Everyone had a full bag, some of us came with two full bags! That's how much we could find. It goes to show just how much people have gone and littered.
We learned about waterways in our neighbourhood, where it flows from our homes to storm water drains, road gutters, into the groundwater, our local stream (Tyres Road / Waitohi) and finally into Wellington Harbour. We made models of these and tested them to show that water always flows in the least path of resistance and ends up at sea level. Anything in the water usually does too. Let’s just say that results varied
We learned about the types of rubbish that end up in our waterways, and that this rubbish is harmful to the wildlife, and even to us when we swim in the water and play at the beach.
In total we picked up 2190 pieces of rubbish! This became 20 of the Sea Cleaners bags.
The most common thing (besides yucky stuff) was food wrapping, around three bags filled with it. We found 525 pieces of it, surprisingly. Even more surprisingly, we found two car headlights.”
