Primary 4 from St. Albert’s Primary took part in a litter pick and survey this afternoon on our adopted streets, St. Andrew’s Drive and Maxwell Drive in the local area, as their contribution to the National Spring Clean 2023. The Great British Spring Clean is the nation’s biggest mass-action environmental campaign. Our school pledged to fill at least 7 bags with litter but we filled 9 with 511 pieces of litter which weighed in at exactly 17Kg in total. There was a lot of litter in the streets around our school, but even more on the grassy area next to the local flats. It was caught up in the bushes as it had probably been discarded by passers by and then blown there by the wind.

The largest quantity that we collected of a single type of item was cigarette butts and we picked up 101 of these. Soft plastic items were the second  most collected type of litter in our survey and we picked up 74 pieces of this. In third place was hard plastic items with 59 being collected.

The pupils can be proud of themselves as these items could have been washed down into street drains in the rain and could have ended up at sea where they would likely have been consumed by fish or other sea creatures, so they have probably saved a few creatures lives with their efforts as well as improving the look of the local area.

Here you can see our photos of the class carrying out their litter pick and survey.