Alexia

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SUSTAINABILITY- is keeping something alive without any damage to something and being continued with minimal long term effect on our environment.
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These are the issues that occur around Liverpool:

Graffiti

illegal dumping and littering

Pollution

Abandoned Shopping trolleys

= MERL Day =

During MERL Day, 3 guests speakers went to St. Christopher's Holsworthy to show and talk about our environment

Peter talked about the huge amount of garbage that we humans, dump on landfills. He also talked about the fact that not all plastics can be recycled, 70% of our waste can be recycled and 25% of it is plastic.

Melissa Harning


Melissa talked about LIverpool Council's environmental plans. Below are some of the environmental plans:

- bush regeneration - worm farms - monthly community tree planting - free environment workshops - school environmental planting



Gary talked about some of the renewable energy, increasing population and rising sea levels. He also said that the frogs has been living longer than us and that they are relying on us to care for our environment.

We attended the following workshops during the day: - plant propagating - rubbish relay game - Uno's Garden story

All of the workshops we attended during the day were really fun and informative. It taught us how to care for our environment. At the plant propagating workshop, they taught us how to save money by cutting the plant from the stem and re-planting it. At the rubbish relay game, it taught us to put all our rubbish in the right bin. For the last workshop, the teacher read as a story about caring for our environment.

= CLASS PROJECT =

Trolleys
Q1. What policies can be put into place to stop the dumping of trolleys? Q2. Which supermarket trolleys are being dumped Q3. Which area in Liverpool has the most abandoned shopping trolleys? Q4. How do Aldi shopping trolleys work? Q5. What is the cost of trolley repairs? and how much do new trolleys cost?

Tree planting
Q1. How do we bring back the endangered species of Liverpool into the area? Q2. What are the native flora and fauna of liverpool Q3. Which plants/animals are endangered in Liverpool? Q4. What policies Liverpool council has inplace to protect the endangered plants/animals? Q5. How much money has been spent on repairing damaged parklands?

=== Target- You can only us Target's shopping trolleys when purchasing something from their shop. They track their trolleys by the trolley tracker website. Every month, men from companies repair any damaged tolleys. ===

=== Woolworths- The same as target, Woolworths' shopping trolley policies is that you can only use their trolleys when purchasing something from their shop. Every night, special trolley guys go out and collect any lost trolleys and get locked in a cage overnight. The next morning they will be immediately returned to Woolworths. ===

=== Aldi- At Aldi they have a coin deposit system where you have to put a gold coin in before you use it. You can only retrieve the coin by returning the trolley to the shop. They have another system where the trolleys have a limited distance, therefore when you exceed the limit, the trolleys will stop working. ===

=== Coles- When you get caught using Cole's shopping trolleys without any intentions of using it for shopping in their store, you get fined by the council up to $600. Each new trolley cost $300. People from trolley companies come every month to fix and maintain the trolleys. When people see any lost trolleys, they phone 1800 and as a reward, they get to have a chance to win $1000. ===

** Environment Day **
The 5th of May is world environment day. We went to All Saint's Catholic Girls College to watch their performance. they performed different showcases such as singing,dancing and acting. They also showed a short clip about Australia's environment plan for the future. After all those entertaining yet informative presentations, they gave us 15 minutes to roam around the hall and look at the models the girls did. At the end, as a gift they gave each of us a environmental friendly bag.

Our Liverpool Walk
Below is the map of the route we walked during our Liverpool walk:



Local Walk
Here are some photos from our liverpool walk:





Tree Planting
On the 25th of May, our class had a tree planting day on a park in Warwick Farm. When we arrived there, Melissa Harning demonstrated the proper way of planting in order for the plants and trees to survive. They gave us the materials we needed then we started planting. During the day our class planted about 200 trees and plants.