The below article was written and sent in to us by 11-year-old Yemaya Oates. She and her home-schooling group recently went to their local beach “to pick up rubbish to make the beach cleaner and save the animals”. Thanks for the article Yemaya and well done to you all.
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On Tuesday we went to the beach and decided to pick up rubbish.
We found bottles and cans that could have been more than 10 years old. Some of the bottles were an old shape. Lots of them were very faded.
Lots were found in places I didn’t think people could get to to throw their rubbish. We found lots of campsites were people had just dumped their rubbish.
Why were we doing it? We were cleaning up the environment, preventing animals from dying and making it a better place.
Where were we? Merimbula Main Beach. Mostly in the bushes behind the sand, and around the lookout.
How did we do it? Easy, we got all the kids together and went down the beach collecting rubbish.
As well as lots of bottles and tin cans, there were empty packets and plastic bags. All the kids were from our homeschool group. My friend Lainey Ryan had the idea to pick up rubbish at the beach and it was great fun.
If you’re reading this we hope you could do the same. Get some kids together and have a day at the beach. Bring your bags and fill them up with rubbish. It’s a great help for the turtles, dolphins, whales, seabirds and fish.
It’s also helping us because what the fish are eating, we eat. If the fish eat the plastic, and we eat the fish, we are eating the plastic.
It also makes the beach prettier. Not only on the beach, you could pick up rubbish everywhere else as well. Your park for example, your school, the caravan parks and everywhere else you see rubbish.
You can make a big difference. Start now.