05 May 2013
Over 100 students from Years 8, 9 and 10 headed to The North Entrance Beach to participate in the largest beach clean-up yet, with the Take 3 program leaders Mandy Marechal, Tim Silverwood and 5 other Take 3 volunteers.
Students were briefed on the marine audit and the importance of their contribution before donning gloves, grabbing tongs and garbage bags and heading to the lakeside and beach to start the clean up and marine audit.
Take 3 is a local environmental initiative taking the world by storm because of its simplicity and effectiveness. It involves encouraging people to pick up 3 pieces of rubbish to save our waterways and wildlife.
Our students were Standing Tall in their uniform picking up everything - yes, everything - cigarette butts, plastic bags, fishing line, chairs, undies, wrappers, straws, foam, shoes, glass, papers, plastic, plastic and more plastic...including a $20 note!!
Students collated the information using audit sheets, which will now be used in a nationwide program aimed at gathering data on the types of rubbish found on our beaches.
Our students did an incredible job and deserve to be really proud of themselves. It was a dirty, stinky and filthy job, but all of our students chipped in and had go. At the end of the day there were 29 huge bags - a tonne of rubbish and 2 cubic metres of rubbish.
Take 3 volunteers were blown away by the enthusiasm of our students as they trawled the beaches, scrambled under trees and traipsed through thick bush to pick up everything they possibly could.
Stay tuned for the Take 3 documentary and Love Our Living Lakes documentary starring Tumbi students, coming out soon.