On Tuesday the 14th of January, 21 primary students and 25 secondary students from @aayasminaacademy, Abu Dhabi came together for a beach clean-up activity!
They did a stellar job at tallying the items they collected and their final result was 147kg, filling up 19 bags. Well done teams!
There were a lot of construction materials, ropes, but also wooden planks with nails to be very aware of. The majority of items collected however, were from people having BBQs and picnics. Cigarette butts, vapes, charging cables, batteries, lighter fluids, plastic and glass bottles, plastic and metal bottle caps, plastic cutlery, wooden & metal skewers, food wrappers, plastic playing cards, 17 metal clothes hangers, 1 plastic one (why???), and several clothing items just to name a few of what we managed to pick up in the time dedicated to the activity. Diapers and plastic water bottles with urine were the most unpleasant items to collect. A horse shoe and a cat scratching post were the most unusual!
Food scraps are not counted as part of the waste collection, however lemons, countless corn cobs, other fruit and vegetables tossed out, and heaps of noodles etc, are an eye sore and do require cleaning up to allow for the next guests to be able to settle themselves in a clean and safe environment to enjoy the great outdoors.
There is sadly still a lot of work to do in educating the public on how to be responsible human beings and to stop mistreating our environment and show it the respect it deserves!
We want to thank @tadweer.group for their very prompt response in coming to collect and responsibly dispose of the waste at the end of the day.
