Students learn value of clean waterways

 

Hayden Smith and the team from Sea Cleaners were in Northland recently carrying out community action projects with schools and community groups focusing on cleaning up beaches, harbours and waterways in the region.

Sea Cleaners is a Charitable Trust whose main focus is to educate people about keeping waterways rubbish-free.

A group of year 10 students from Bream Bay College carried out a clean-up at Papich Road and adjacent beach on the inside of North Port on the Whangarei Harbour on November 20.

Students, teachers and other helpers collected over 25 50-litre bags of rubbish off the beach.

Another half dozen 50-litre bags of rubbish dumped in bushes at the parking area end of Papich Road were also collected.

Rubbish collected included plastics, bottles, household trash, car parts, a deep fryer, tarpaulins and general refuse.

Hayden Smith also visited Bream Bay College, and along with students and Mangawhai-based teacher Tony Baker, talked about how everything is interconnected in the natural environment, and if people drop their litter on land it will eventually end up in our rivers, harbours and the sea.

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TOTAL RUBBISH: Pictured on the North Port beach strip are, from left, Captain Hayden Smith (Sea Cleaners), Emma Scobie-Jennings (GATE teacher), Olivia Watson, Alyssa Matthews, Eric Bradley, Tom Norton, Haylee Rudolph, Rachel Johns, Caleb Harty, Luke Murray, Annaree Peters, and teacher Tony Baker.