Coastal Guardians against Marine Pollution
We worked with different primary schools across the North East to break our reliance on plastics and look for alternatives to packaging.
Pplastic is such a long-lasting material and we use such vast quantities in our daily lives. It is becoming a real threat to marine life and to our ocean ecosystems.
What we did
This project was funded by Merck Sharp and Dohme.
We worked with a number of different primary schools across the north-east region for one year to:
- raise awareness of the consequences of coastal litter
- change their attitudes and behaviours in a positive way
- conduct litter surveys
- reduce litter by removing it from coastal areas and changing behaviour
- produce a series of educational packs for primary schools across the north-east
- encourage confidence in literacy and numeracy skills
- promote science learning through outdoor activities and engagement with marine experts