Date & hour
Wednesday 12/04/2024
Location
XRA, Ix-Xagħra, MLT
Results
Details
| On foot (beach/river banks) | |
| 58 | |
| Number of schoolchildren | 49 |
| 100 - 200m | |
| Do not hesitate to ask us questions about the wastes you have found or to write us anything that seems useful for the Ocean Initiatives. Feel free, the best ideas never remain stowed in the drawers. | Most of the litter items collected were washed onto the beach by a storm a few days before. Amount was relatively small and consisted mainly of bottles. Only a few cigarette butts were found probably because it is not a popular swimming season at the moment. On the contrary, there were thousands of broken microplastics and nurdles on the beach. The students had to pick up these by hand as it was not even possible to sieve the sand because it was wet from heavy rain during the night. Hundreds of microplastics were hand picked during the cleanup. |
Litter
 Tobacco products with filters | 19 |
0
People sensitised
0
Bags collected
0
Butts Picked Up