Beach Clean Up

Last Friday Te Ngahere did a beach clean up, because there are very ignorant people and they pollute our beach we also cleaned the beach up because the rubbish will most likely go into the ocean. My group stayed at the back, and we were only picking up all the tiny bits of rubbish. What I found a lot of, was pieces of timber with rusty nails on them; I found it very confusing how no one else had seen them. At one point I found two wooden stakes that were pretty old and they had grown Oysters on them, they also smelt very bad as if someone had chucked fish into a bin and the fish had been there for three months (I used my shirt as a sort of gas mask because it stunk so much). Apparently the most common thing people from the front picked up were cigarette butts, alcohol cans and beer bottles. In the end I learnt that there are a lot of lazy smokers who chuck their cigarette butts aside. How do you think we could stop smokers from chucking their smokes aside and polluting our beaches?