As an Eco school, St. Albert’s Primary takes the problem of litter very seriously. Every lunch time, pupils work on a rota basis to clear the grounds of any litter that has been dropped, blown or thrown in to our grounds.

We also measure the success of our litter picking with surveys of the types and quantities of litter we find. We have found that some of our litter has not been dropped by our pupils due to the types we find, but rather has been thrown in by passing adults or has been removed by vandals from our bins and scattered.

Primary 5 recently carried out a litter survey in our grounds and weighed all the bin bags that we filled. The bags totalled 27Kg. Much of this weight was not due to sweet wrappers or crisp packets dropped by pupils, but was glass bottles thrown over our fences or hardware removed from our bins and scattered by vandals. The pupils understand that litter is harmful to wildlife and enjoyed removing it from our grounds.

Here are some pictures of them hard at work doing the Litter survey: