Beach cleaning was a part of our school activities this year. It was the last day of our activity week.     

Nowadays, people are using a lot of plastic and bottles. Considerable amounts of plastic debris passes through gutter and rivers, and in the end they flow into the sea. It will not only destroy the natural environment but also make the wild animals die by eating this trash.

We need to prevent these things from happening, therefore our school held this event to teach the students what inhumane things we are doing to our home (earth) and to properly sort their garbage and reduce the plastic usage amount.

We visited Butterfly Beach which is located in Tuen Mun, a long way from our school. First we had a BBQ party our teachers; fun before work. Thereafter, we rested for a while.

The sun was shining in the sky and some of us went to the beach to have fun and swim, the others went to cleanup the mess we made during the BBQ. Luckily, the beach was already clean when we went there so the only trash we had to pick up was our own.

In the end, we filled the trash bags as much as we could.

I learned that if only a few people clean up the beach it will not be of any use, the amount of trash that we throw away in the sea everyday is more than we think. If we keep discarding trash then one day the amount of garbage on earth will cause a catastrophe and we humans will have to take responsibility for it.

                                             

                                            (Contributed by Chang,Nai Ting G10)