Pick Up Three Pieces: Evie and Firth learn about marine litter

Following their Bag The Bruck beach clean Evie and Firth have been finding out about marine litter and the damage plastics and plastic bags in particular can do. They know that plastic bags are very bad for turtles who think they are delicious jellies, and that the dreaded plastic bag monster should not be fed any more bags!

Bag monster in the school display.

Bottle top mosaic turtle.

Pick Up Three Pieces will be visiting next term - see you after the summer litter warriors!

About PU3P

Pick Up Three Pieces was started and continues to be lead by Orkney school children who want to take responsibility for removing some of the litter that is building up on their local beaches. They are finding out it that it is a global problem seriously affecting animals. It entangles them or is mistaken for food by them. Plastic bags look like jellyfish to a turtle and marine mammals and birds are often entangled in floating debris.

We hope this blog will inspire all of our schools and our whole community to take an active part in this initiative. Guest posts from schools, community groups, recreational groups and clubs, and individuals with an interest in the marine environment, are welcome.

Evie and Firth learn about marine litter

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