TWO LOADS OF RUBBISH

For the last four months we (Polly and Mali) have been cycling to school; saving approximately 200 kg CO2 (CO2 is a greenhouse gas that is created by burning fossil fuels, slowly eating away at our world) whilst reducing pollution in the local area. Cycling has made us feel more alive, and is a really nice way to start the day: the views of the Preselis on our front doorstep. But then you look more closely, there is rubbish littered along these beautiful roads - with some cars speeding ruthlessly past us spitting out fossil fuels. It makes us realise that even living in such a beautiful place in the world pollution is still such a massive issue. In the new year we intend to ‘clean up‘ some rubbish too! On our 7 mile trips into school we notice much strewn cans, plastic, and food packaging. So from Rosebush to Nant-y-Cwm School and Mynachlog-ddu to Nant-y- cwm we are going to pick up all items of rubbish. How much litter will there be? The following week we will do the same again learning how much more rubbish has been carelessly thrown out of windows on the same road. We will stop doing our weekly ‘pick’ when there’s nothing to collect. With the rubbish we collect we are going to find out how much is recyclable and illustrate how long the rubbish will take to biodegrade. We are thinking of creating an end project, maybe a sculpture out of the collected rubbish. If you have any creative project ideas for the rubbish please leave comments below. We would like to spark our generation to get inspired to be part of the change that needs to come before it’s too late. Half of the money will go towards our final class eight trip and the other half to an environmental charity. We would be so grateful if you donated towards this. Polly and Mali (both age 13)