Beach cleanup in Xagħra
Gozo College Middle School Ramla Cleanup/Nature Trust – FEE Malta
Organized by Marvic Refalo
Description
13year old students with their teachers asked to participate in a cleanup - Ramla beach, a NATURA2000 site is always in need of cleaning especially from plastic pellets and litter washed on the sand by the waves.
Participants
Location
Share
Top 10 of collected items
Pieces of plastic 2,5-50 cm
Plastic bottle caps
Glass pieces / ceramic pieces
Fishing : nets and ropes (Ø < 1cm)
Pieces of polystyrene 2,5-50 cm
Straws
Tobacco products with filters
Plastic bags and pieces
Wet wipes
Clothes, tea towels
Litter
| Tobacco products with filters | 30 |
 Plastic bottles (drinks) under 50 cl or = to 50 cl | 2 |
 Plastic bottles (drinks) over 50 cl | 4 |
| Plastic bottle caps | 256 |
 Food packaging (tubs, sandwich wrappers, yoghurt containers, fast food wrappers) | 2 |
 Plastic bottles except beverages (cleaning products, beauty products) | 6 |
| Plastic bags and pieces of plastic bags | 27 |
 Confectionery packets and wrappers (crisp packets, chocolate bars, sweets, fruit purée pouches) | 5 |
 Lollipop sticks | 9 |
 Medical waste plastic: Medicine packaging / tubes / vials | 11 |
| Wet wipes (sanitary, textile) | 15 |
| Pieces of polystyrene between 2.5 and 50 cm | 87 |
| Pieces of plastic between 2.5 and 50 cm | 453 |
 Plastic cups, including lid | 2 |
 Picnic dishes: cutlery | 3 |
| Straws | 63 |
| Waste fishing gear: nets (including pieces of net), ropes, string, tangled nets and ropes. | 88 |
 Waste fishing gear: fishing lines, hooks, bait boxes | 2 |
 Shotgun cartridges | 9 |
 Toys | 3 |
 Inflatable balloons | 4 |
 Cigarette lighters | 1 |
 Sandals / shoes | 3 |
 Glass bottles | 1 |
| Glass pieces / ceramic pieces | 98 |
 Bottle caps | 3 |
 Pieces of iron or scrap iron | 9 |
| Clothes, tea towels | 12 |
Gozo College Middle School Ramla Cleanup/Nature Trust – FEE Malta
Date & hour
Tuesday 03/12/2024
09:30
Tue 03/12/2024 09:30
Xagħra, Malta