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Rubbish workshop at Buncrana
School
08.11.17
A NATIONWIDE schools’
campaign to educate and raise student awareness of
littering is underway with students from Scoil
Mhuire, Buncrana participating in the Bin It!
workshop that visited their school.
Bin It! features an actor-led workshop visiting
secondary schools across the participating local
authority areas. The workshop is geared towards
first year students and explores littering and
social responsibility. This is the 11th year the
‘Bin it!’ campaign has toured Ireland and to date
over 45,242 students have taken part, with 6,024
attending one of the 63 workshops that ran in 2016
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Students from Scoil Mhuire, Buncrana
participating in the Bin It! workshop. |
Chairman of the GLT,
Paul Kelly said; “The overall aim of the Gum Litter
Taskforce campaign has always been to exact a
behaviour change amongst the proportion of the
public that dispose of chewing gum incorrectly. The
Bin It! tour has proven to be an extremely
effective, fun and interactive means of getting the
important GLT gum disposal message to younger
audiences. We’re seeing its effectiveness reflected
not only in the attitudes and awareness research
results but also in the increasing number of
participants in the tour workshops.”
The workshop tour is supported by a website
www.chewitbinit.com which includes games and
quizzes for students, lesson plans, teachers’ notes,
posters and activity cards to help integrate the
theme of responsible litter disposal into the
curriculum.
The Gum Litter Taskforce (GLT) education campaign
also includes outdoor poster, TV and online
advertising which ran from May until August this
year and an accompanying website
www.gumlittertaskforce.ie . |
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