Plastic industry support school's CSI: Litter Challenge
The British Plastics Federation and PlasticsEurope are working with the Marine Conservation Society on a new project for schools called CSI: Litter Challenge. Nine schools
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registered to take part in the project which helps students explore the issue of litter.
The first stage of the CSI: Litter Challenge was for the schools to complete a litter survey in their school or local area. This helps the students to understand the scope of the issue and to start to think about why the litter ended up there. The schools then took part in two webinars run by the Marine Conservation Society. These webinars help the students to understand how litter even if dropped in town and cities can end up in the marine environment. It explored that human behaviour leads to littering rather than a material itself and looked at the impact which litter can have on our environment.
The webinars also provided an opportunity to teach the students more about plastic. It showed all the great uses of plastic and how it is a valuable material. It looked at the different pathways a plastic bottle can take depending on how it is disposed of and discussed that plastic is recyclable. The first webinar has been viewed 26 times and the second webinar which came out last week has been viewed 6 times so far.
The students are currently working on their own litter campaign. Each school will submit their campaign and a panel of judging including the BPF will decide on the best campaign. The winning school – one for KS2 and one from KS3 will win £250 towards a ‘green’ project. The overall winner will have their campaign upscaled into a UK litter campaign which the Marine Conservation Society and the plastics industry will promote.
