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YOUR RUBBISH KILLS!

Our school projectOur school project

STEP 1

• Heatley Secondary College is in the catchment of Louisa Creek. We work on Louisa Creek weekly.

STEP 2

• We need to make students aware of creek pollution in our school catchment area.

STEP 3

• We have school - based projects to reduce rubbish in our school

JobsJobs

Our school works with Conservation Volunteers by:

• getting data

• counting fish

• counting water-bugs

• measuring oxygen, acid and alkali levels

• rubbish control and planting

Who supports this project?Who supports this project?

• Townsville City Council

• Conservation Volunteers

• Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

• Heatley Secondary College - Science, Geography, SEU, Administration, Student Council, Grounds staff, Marine Studies

STEP 3,STEP 3, School Projects for 2003/2004 School Projects for 2003/2004

• Aluminum can recycling

• Bush tucker garden

• Tree planting

• Posters around school

• Worm farm

• Composting

• Improve paper recycling

• Plant nursery

Rubbish from Heatley????Rubbish from Heatley????

Townsville Sun 2003

From “hands on Habitat” Kit

• Rubbish from Heatley Secondary College gets washed into the drains.

• The drains run into the creek

• Rubbish also blows into the creek

The cleaners

must clean our

school everyday

But sometimes it’s too late!But sometimes it’s too late!

The rubbish

goes from

the creek to

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Plastic bags look like jelly fish.

They are eaten by marine animals.

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Plastic Bag

Jelly Fish

Plastic kills marine animalsPlastic kills marine animals

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Plastic kills marine animals

This is a turtle eating plasticInternet picture

How long does rubbish take to break down?How long does rubbish take to break down?

• Fishing line - 600 years

• Polystyrene cups - 500 years

• Plastic six-pack packaging rings - 450 years

• Aluminum cans - 80 years

• Tin cans - 50 years

• Orange peels - 6 months

Plastic and pollution hurt and kill marine animalsPlastic and pollution hurt and kill marine animals

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Journey of a piece of plasticJourney of a piece of plastic

Week 1: Student throws plastic on the ground at school

Week 2: Rain washes the plastic into the drain. It floats down the creek and out to sea.

Week 3: A turtle eats the plastic. He dies slowly

Week 10: The turtle decomposes. The plastic floats away.

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Week 11: A sea bird eats the plastic. It chokes to death.

Week 15: The plastic floats free.

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Week 16: A seal pup eats the plastic and dies.

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Rubbish thrown on the ground is one of the biggest killers of marine life, so please don’t throw your rubbish on the ground! Put it in the bin.

Plastic – Whale KillerPlastic – Whale Killer

An atuopsy found that the whale’s stomach was tightly packed with plastic – almost six square metres of it! The whale had swallowed supermarket bags, food packaging, three large sheets of plastic two metres long and fragments of garbage bags.

Don’t be a murderer!Don’t be a murderer!

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Next time a teacher asks you to pick up rubbish - HELP!

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Please help protect our environment.Please help protect our environment.

Seabirds are not only killed by oil spills. This fairy penguin (below right) was trapped by one of the plastic rings used to carry packs of beer.

THE ENDTHE END

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