JIMBOOMBA State School students cleaned up their school grounds on Friday with the welfare of the animals of Antarctica in the forefront of their minds.
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Former Jimboomba State School principal Clive Shield spoke about his recent trip to Antarctica at a school parade presentation ahead of the clean up and drew a connection to the impact plastic pollution has on the ecosystem.
School principal Tim Farrell said it was a message which resonated.
“His message was that we need to do our little bit for the world by keeping our patch clean to enable the animals in Antarctica to continue surviving, he spoke about some of the animals not surviving as a result of eating plastic,” he said.
“It was a very powerful message for the kids and I asked the students to pick up that plastic knowing that in a couple of years it could potentially make its way downstream to the Logan River and beyond to Antarctica.”
Each year level covered a different section of the school oval to ensure every square metre was spotless.
The end result was 35 bags of rubbish disposed off in an environmentally friendly manner.
Mr Farrell said the students not only did their bit for the school, but for the wider area.
“I am very proud of the students of this school and the fact that they got behind the school clean up day and picked up thousands of pieces of rubbish,” he said.
“If everyone picked up one piece of rubbish that would equate to 900 pieces of rubbish and as I talked to the kids some of them picked up 15 to 20 pieces of rubbish. So we picked up thousands of pieces of rubbish that would otherwise have washed into the streams and oceans.”
Clean up Australia Day events occurred nationwide on Sunday, March 4.
If you have participated in Clean Up Australia Day and would like to submit photos for possible inclusion in a online photo gallery please email jacob.wilson@fairfaxmedia.com.au.
