Rid Hackney of plastic bags, say kids
Year 5 students at London Fields School with their plastic bag mountain
CHILDREN at a Hackney primary school are calling on the Council to make the borough a plastic bag-free zone. They say the thousands bags thrown away by shoppers every day are damaging the environment and pose a threat to wildlife.
The Year 5 pupils from London Fields primary school invited one of their local councillors, Patrick Vernon, to visit the school on Friday 16 October to see a plastic bag mountain they had built in the school hall to illustrate the extent of the problem.
“The idea came from the children themselves,” said teacher Christina Savva. “They had been working on a project about how discarded plastic bags were killing turtles in St. Lucia and then realised we had a problem with plastic bags here, too.”
Councillor Vernon was so impressed by the enthusiasm shown by the young environmentalists that he has invited them to present their ideas to a full Council meeting on Wednesday 25 November.
“The children are thrilled to feel that their voice is being heard and they might be able to make a real difference to the world around them,” said Christina Savva.
Hear, hear! Many areas of France (usually so backwards in matters of ecology) have been plastic-bag free for years. It’s high time Britain caught up.
Hello i was just saying that i think plastic bag is a thing because i’ve seen lots of plastic bags going in the sea and it not really nice .
I think it is a good idea !!!!!!!!!!
hi i am in 1 of those pics i think u should get rid of plastic bag because sea turtles are dieing because of plastic bags
I am one of those people who were in the campaign, i think you should get rid of plastic bags because plastic bags are polluting the earth and animals are getting in danger.So if you don’t want the world in danger then re-use plastic bags and don’t through them away!
I am one of the childen in this photograph, and the reason I am in the campaign is because plastic bags are harming everything, animals, the Earth and even us! Every year in India, there is a monsoon, but in one particular year, all plastic bags were thrown out, and it blocked all the drains, that India had the worst flood ever, and all of that happened beause of plastic bags. Which is why I strongly believe that plastic bags should be banned.
Hi Nujha I miss you I can’t believe we’re not in the same school anymore.
Noor? What are you saying?
Swear to god I didn’t write that
The cringe
loool yes brudda
Ffs I laughed way too hard